EDU 690 - Civic Engagement

3 Hour(s)

In this course, students will study a new version of civic engagement, one that focuses and develops citizen power through community work and outreach. Drawing on the emerging literature in civic studies, civic renewal, and public work, students will re-imagine civic engagement as an activity undertaken by citizens, as professionals, who work in concert with others across many community institutions and with diverse publics to enact collective action to address complex, community-based problems. A key component of this work is learning how to engage in dialogue and deliberation with people across diverse social networks. Students will develop their potential as citizen professionals to organize in communities and build grassroots power to affect meaningful and productive change. The course is organized around the guiding question, “How should we live together?”.

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