Mast Social Change Field Work

Catalog description

Taught by PSR. Required course for MAST program. Field work arranged in consultation and with approval of the Field Education faculty. To enroll, students must have had consultation with the Director of Field Education for an approved broad sector or area of interest focus and mentor active in that field. Participants collaborate with each other, the faculty instructor, and their mentors to draft learning objectives and establish criteria for assessing the outcomes of their field work and immersion experiences. Participants meet together in person three Saturdays during the semester and provide regular progress reports online through a dedicated website. Participants will submit a final project in this course (such as a vocational plan, a social venture proposal, an educational and/or spiritual formation module for community organizing, among others) based on their field work/immersion experiences geared toward a specific area of social change. Draft iterations of the project are submitted online throughout the semester for feedback from colleagues, mentors, and the faculty instructor. The class meets in person a fourth and final time, at the end of the semester, to present their final projects and solicit observations and proposals for next steps. [Faculty Consent required; Interview required]