CIVIL SOCIETY AND COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2021 Learning Outcomes: 1. Define key traits, values, and skills related to leadership and community-building. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe the history of community activism, evolution of civic engagement, and role(s) of significant individuals and organizations in shaping community and civil leadership today. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Demonstrate the role(s) of -isms on community and civic leadership. More specifically, what is the role of race/gender/class/(dis)ability/religion/sexual orientation/etc. on those in leadership positions within communities and across civic groups. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Examine how leadership operates in relation to important contemporary topics including diversity, white saviorism, and social justice across communities of color, social class, etc. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Offer informed critique of today’s civil society and community leaders. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Define key traits, values, and skills related to leadership and community-building. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe the history of community activism, evolution of civic engagement, and role(s) of significant individuals and organizations in shaping community and civil leadership today. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Demonstrate the role(s) of -isms on community and civic leadership. More specifically, what is the role of race/gender/class/(dis)ability/religion/sexual orientation/etc. on those in leadership positions within communities and across civic groups. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Examine how leadership operates in relation to important contemporary topics including diversity, white saviorism, and social justice across communities of color, social class, etc. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Offer informed critique of today’s civil society and community leaders. Audience: Undergraduate