Goal of the course:
- to assist you to integrate a commitment to social justice into your lives and careers.
You will learn:
- to advocate for social justice
- to use your professional skills and knowledge to work for social justice.
As a result of all SEM 300 courses ...
- You will learn the difference between doing charity and working for justice through systemic change. You will show that you understand this difference by producing projects and participating in advocacy work that has long-term goals.
- You will demonstrate a sustained commitment to the practice of social justice through community-driven projects designed to create social change.
- You will will reflect on the tensions among your individual beliefs and personal interests, political realities, and the common good in local and global communities.
- You will develop and critique your own personal philosophy of social justice grounded in dignity, equality, and solidarity.
In addition to the goals of all SEM 300s, in this particular SEM 300 you will also learn how to make a life-long commitment to social justice a part of your Professional Development. You will produce tangible outcomes both useful for your career preparation and beneficial to the work of partner organizations like Catholic Relief Services. In order to achieve these goals:
- You will gain broad knowledge about the interconnectedness of our world.
- You will learn the needs of partner organizations like CRS and the communities they serve.
- You will learn how to use your professional skills in ways that benefit the efforts of partner organizations to aid those in need. You will produce research, educational, and media products to raise community awareness of issues affecting the people our partner organizations serve.
- You will present the results of your research and study to the public in a venue appropriate to your career.
- You will learn to do an advocacy project throughout the semester that has direct benefit for our community partners and ultimately for the poor they serve.
- You will learn the skills needed to work for long-term systemic change that benefits the lives of the poor.
Issue Focuses for the Course:
- Development, poverty, and the Millennium Goals
- Peacebuilding and effects of war, especially refugees from war
- food security
- HIV/AIDS
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