Course Syllabus

"Solidarity is not a matter of altruism.

Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest.

From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable."

-- Aurora Levins Morales, Medicine Stories

 

NOTE This is a working online syllabus. Additional readings and/or assignments may be inserted or altered as this seminar organically develops. These changes will depend on the interests and needs of the class, as well as the time constraints of the academic quarter. 

Please watch the following orienting video for our course. It will provide you with helpful details to make sure you are ready to participate in the course when the quarter begins.

http://youtu.be/kxDt3a3MIzM

Course Description

This class focuses on what it means to work collectively across differences for peace, justice and freedom. Students will examine the idea and practice of solidarity in theological and political terms. Students will explore models of working across differences and building coalitions of various kinds, from both historical and contemporary, local and global examples. As solidarity implies working across differences of identity and power, students will interrogate their own social location and analyze dynamics of difference and power within the social change organizations and communities to which they belong.

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Online Discussions

Google Hangouts

Self Evaluation & Grading

Online Classroom Communication Policies & Procedures

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