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Dec 21, 2024
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2018-19 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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US 209 Social Action and Social Change
This University Seminar presents students with an opportunity to learn about and participate in issues related to inequity, social justice, and social action. Using concepts grounded in the social sciences as an analytical framework, the course begins with an examination of the ways in which the development of individual and group identity is structured within social systems and institutions that also exercise power over these individuals. This power is exerted differentially across societal groups leading to inequity and structural violence. Using this framework, members of the class will then read, study, and learn about the ways in which grassroots movements around the world have used social action at the local level to bring about social change. Moving out of the classroom, students and faculty members will explore social change groups in the Philadelphia area and connect electronically with similar groups in other countries.
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