Description: Seminar, one hour. Exploration of how change-making frameworks and theories produce varying results in social change. Development of understanding of how to challenge systems of oppression through lenses of social responsibility, counterculture, reform, and contestation. Critical analysis of Arab Spring, Kony 2012, and Black Lives Matter to evaluate utility of various social media platforms in advocacy and accompliceship. Students apply concepts discussed to make change in personally meaningful social issue within their own network. P/NP grading. Facilitated by Nathan Tran, with Nicholas E. Shapiro as faculty mentor.

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