"How to Change the World": An Introduction to Feminist Activism and Social Change

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce students to the practices of social change through a feminist lens. Students will experience the interfaces of empirical knowledge and activist practice by researching, identifying, organizing, and implementing a community-engaged class activism project. They will learn essential leadership skills and then apply those leadership abilities to contemporary issues of concern while simultaneously learning to work as a team. As students look to “change the world”, they will utilize acquired strategies and activist tactics from the course to influence social, political, cultural and/or economic change.