ACTIVISM AND COMMUNITY: RESEARCH, COLLABORATE, INITIATE
HUS2ACT
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
The whole point of this study is to begin to sketch how to make a difference, or how to be a difference. Over an intensive period of study in the winter or the early summer, this subject offers you an opportunity to identify and investigate a topic of community activism situated in any area where community life intersects with agendas for change or for continuity. In consultation with academics, you can approach this subject about activism from a range of theoretical and applied perspectives. Within important limits of university policy and your own and public safety, you are a co-authors of this subject. You determine and research the issue mattering to you. You explore ways to bring it to the critical attention of the general public. Through case-based teaching, you will learn to argue and defend your analyses. You will explore the evidence base for the options for how best to communicate your findings effectively and persuasively. This subject is about the social, political and cultural contexts shaping public engagement with change and activism. At the conclusion of the subject, you will have learned skills related to constructive community activism and engagement.
School: Humanities and Social Sciences (Pre 2022)
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Adrian Jones
Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 2 - UG
Available as Elective: No
Learning Activities: N/A
Capstone subject: No
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: Any first year subject in HuSS, and at least one core subject in the second-year of any discipline in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: N/A
Equivalent subjects: N/A
Quota Management Strategy: N/A
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Special conditions: Depending on the themes of the subject, students may be required (and at their own expense) to obtain a Working with Children and a Police Check before enrolment.
Minimum credit point requirement: N/A
Assumed knowledge: N/A
Learning resources
Learning Activism: The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Prereading
Author: Aziz Choudry
Year: 2015
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Publisher: University of Toronto Press
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Career Ready
Career-focused: No
Work-based learning: No
Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A
Entire subject or partial subject: N/A
Total hours/days required: N/A
Location of WBL activity (region): N/A
WBL addtional requirements: N/A