Course Syllabus
Instructor: Jenny Whitcher, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Religion & Public Life and Director of the Office of Professional Formation
E-mail: JWhitcher@iliff.edu
Office Hours: By appointment, To schedule a meeting, please select an open slot from my appointment calendar (gmail sign-in required).
Course Meeting Time: Wednesdays, 1:00 - 4:30 p.m., March 21 - May 27, 2016
Course Location: B-205 Duncan
Course Synopsis: A strong democracy, comprised of public and institutional life, depends on the civic agency of the people. In this course, students will learn history and core concepts of relational, broad-based community organizing in the United States, through a democratic classroom and the practice of organizing skills. Students will reflect on their core values to define and develop their core self interest and public identity, build meaningful public relationships across difference and diversity, build and evaluate power, and develop community organizing strategies in collaboration with others.
Community organizing skills and methods are useful in a variety context, from personal, professional, to public relationships; within church, religious/spiritual, nonprofit, business, and government contexts; and most importantly as a relational, democratic leadership approach to strategic and systemic social justice and change.
Syllabus
Class Notes (google Doc)
Media Resource List: Together we will be deciding which resources, including those not on the list, we want to cover in the course. Therefore, you do not need to purchase books prior to our first meeting. Regardless of what we decide to prioritize, scanned readings are available to get us through the first few weeks if you want to order books for the quarter after we get started.
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