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Do you want to change the world, but aren’t sure where to begin? Or are you already engaged in activism and want to expand your skills and knowledge? This pathway gives students room to explore the histories and theories of activism and social change movements, the skills required to organize people for social change, and knowledge of the legal, governmental, and economic systems relevant to understanding and participating in efforts to create a more just and equitable world.
Students who choose this pathway may develop knowledge and skills in many of these areas:
Students on this pathway might consider careers in political organizing or campaign work, nonprofit work, or advocacy. They might become artists, writers, campus chaplains, politicians, civil rights lawyers, or theatre professionals. Whether you’re new to activism or already focused on specific social change goals, this pathway is adaptable to a wide range of experiences and backgrounds regarding social change and is designed to help you refine your plans for work during and after college.
Assistant Professor of English; Liaison to the Activism & Social Change Pathway
Interim Chaplain and Director of Religious & Spiritual Life; Liaison to the Activism & Social Change Pathway
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Students will complete two experiences related to activism and social change. Approved experiences should have students in positions of active participation and/or leadership. These might include:
Reflections guide students to articulate meaningful connections between the skills and knowledge they are gaining and the experiences in their coursework, experiential learning opportunities and career goals.Reflections take place along five points in the pathway:
The first opportunity to reflect is when the student declares their Pathway. Responses to prompts asked at this moment establish a baseline from which student moves forward.
This is an opportunity for students to dig deeper to articulate what they are learning along the Pathway in classes and about experiential learning options related to the interests they shared in the first reflection. It is also a point at which to prepare for experiential learning/career exploration.
>This reflection takes place as a student is learning about experiential learning opportunities related to their pathway.
This reflection takes place after the student has completed an experiential learning opportunity and asks them to consider how the work they have done connects with their pathway.
At this touchpoint, students engage with questions that help them build connections between theory and practice, their career goals, and how they plan to extend their Pathway beyond Wooster.
Students will complete four courses that meet the following descriptions:
These courses are meant to give students an introduction to legal & political perspectives related to activism & social change movements. Courses that meet this requirement will highlight the relationship between law, policy, and justice, identify dynamics of contemporary politics and public policy, and/or examine legal & political foundations of inequalities.
*Course has pre-requisite or requires instructor permission to register
These courses provide opportunities for students in this pathway to strengthen their communicative and expressive skills and imagine how those skills are vital to activism & social change movements. Courses that meet this requirement will discuss the role of communication & expression in decision-making, persuasion & argumentation, collaboration, conflict resolution, or other forms of resistance.
*Course has pre-requisite or requires instructor permission to register
These courses offer introductions to histories of social change movements and strategies for community building. Approved courses for this requirement discuss understandings of the influences of civil & human rights leaders and movements, challenges to dominant cultural and/or intellectual paradigms, and the relationships between historical foundations of contemporary social issues and ongoing forms of resistance
*Course has pre-requisite or requires instructor permission to register