Youth, Art, Engagement and Social Justice

Catalog description

This course is designed for students concerned with the challenges, theoretical models, and best practices of academic research and advocacy relationships. The goals of this course are to navigate the challenges of bridging the gap between the academy, community-based organizations, and social justice research and to accrue experience forging these partnerships. This course has a practice component where students develop a project with a non-profit organization and a portion of each course session is devoted to discussion about progress and challenges of each students project.