Civic Intervention I: Investigation and Analysis

Catalog description

The course explores the complexities of policy-making and social change processes, from the perspective of specific potential civic interventions. The course introduces students to the skills and knowledge necessary to identify local and community challenges, analyze existing policies and organizations focused on addressing these challenges, and evaluate the effectiveness of existing policies or programs. In order to do so, the first half of the course is structured as a seminar, which prepares students to the second part of the course, in which they conduct their own analysis of one current community challenge. This course is the first in a 2-course sequence.