Global Issues and Social Justice

Susan Davies March 19, 2018 Global Issues and Social Justice

How to Change the World

Ralph Rosado

Wednesdays, 10:00 am-12:30 pm

The Inside Game. The Outside Game. This two-course sequence presents motivated students with techniques and tools for constructing policy aimed at addressing important societal problems.

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Urban Inequality in HBO's The Wire

Matthew Acevedo

Online

This two-semester course explores themes of urban inequality, issues of race and class, and topics related to social justice and the power of institutions, using the HBO program The Wire as a literary text.

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Third World Cinema

Elizabeth Hanly

Online

This is a course that leaves Hollywood film-making behind in the dust. Instead, it explores film from the so-called Third World, focusing in particular on work from Africa and the Middle East.

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PhotoVoice as Community Engagement

Armando Matiz Reyes, Mark Padilla

Wednesday 3:00PM - 5:40PM

PhotoVoice is an approach to community and civic engagement that involves the production of photographs taken and captioned by community members through workshops and training.

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Dynamic Tensions

Michelle Romero

Thursday 5:00PM - 7:40PM

This class focuses on the dynamic tensions between business, law and morality.

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Art as Persuasion

Pioneer Winter

Online

Art as Persuasion focuses on the cultural and political appropriation of visual and performance art for the purposes of public conformity, propaganda, and dissent (1935-present day).

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Unseen Voices/Unheard Faces

Pioneer Winter

Tuesday 12:30PM - 3:15PM

Unseen Voices/Unheard Faces examines the public and private lives (and deaths) of individuals marginalized within and across our vibrant, shared histories. Why have they been left out? How have we been affected by their lives, deaths, and secret legacies?

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Power, Change, and Global Citizenship

Antonio Pedrero

Tuesday 2:00 – 4:45 pm

Are you looking for an exciting, dynamic, contemporary, truly interdisciplinary course? Interested in exploring the economic, political, and social sources of real and imagined POWER in America? On understanding how CHANGE and progress can occur within and outside of these power spheres? On developing a plan of action for becoming a better global citizen in everything you do? If so, read on!

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