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2021-2022 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook [Archived Catalog]
Course Descriptions
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Courses are identified and organized by degree program. Listed below are those courses for the 2019-2020 academic school year. CampusVue will list courses open for enrollment each semester, by Section if applicable. Not all courses are offered every semester.
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TSC 6540 - Assessing Digital Media Campaigns
This aim of this course is to empower students to be able to critically evaluate research tools of socio and behavioral measurement, and to apply these toolsets and technologies to the analysis of specific impact outreach campaigns. Through coursework students will develop the ability to differentiate the tools of impact analysis, compare quantitative vs. qualitative techniques, and apply their strategies to real-world outreach campaigns. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 6545 - SIM Production Knowing the Tools, Distinguishing the Purpose
The aim of this course is to empower students to see themselves as social change agents through the construction of personal stories in media. In this course students will demonstrate competency in skills required to construct stories in various forms of media, to determine the appropriate form and distribution strategy, and to create strong narratives illuminating relevant social causes through personal story. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 6550 - Conflict Resolution Theory and Methods
The major themes and debates within the field of conflict resolution are discussed in this course. Students gain an understanding of the tools that are available to intervene in conflicts and an awareness of how to improve their capacity to analyze and resourcefully respond to conflict. Additionally, students develop a critical theoretical perspective on the general field of conflict resolution. This class assists the scholar/practitioner in addressing major challenges that call for creative formulation. Such new perspectives may enable the student to be a more effective agent of change, and the field to address the prevention of violent and destructive conflict as well as the resolution of specific disputes. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 6555 - Creating Outreach Campaigns for Social Impact Media
The aim of this course is to deepen understanding and engagement around the role film and narrative can play in advancing social change. Students will explore the differences between film distribution and impact, what it means to design and manage outreach campaigns, the role of an “impact producer” in this, and the various forms of social change that are possible with film. At the completion of the course, students will be able to discern the impact potential of different narrative forms and connect them to broader opportunities for social change. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 6560 - Approaches to Socially Engaged Spirituality
In the modern Western world, spirituality is often understood as private, subjective, and individual, as one’s primarily inward communion with what is seen as sacred, a communion that is not necessarily explicitly in relation to, or even connected with, one’s more outward and public life. In many traditional religious forms, the highest development of spirituality required leaving and having little to do with the everyday social world, whether as a monk or nun, hermit, wanderer, or a member of an intentional community. Socially engaged spirituality in its traditional and contemporary forms represents a different approach, in which spiritual qualities are developed in the context of involvement in family, work, community, society, and/or politics. Cross-listed CSIH 6560 3 credit(s)
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TSC 6565 - Multiplatform Journalism: Evolving Models of News Creation
This course is focused on empowering a student to critically discern and differentiate forms of digital journalism from traditional journalism and documentary form, and to apply this analysis to the creation of short media pieces aimed at social issues. Students will deepen their knowledge of the history of journalism, the evolution of contemporary approaches, the challenges and opportunities within the current digital media ecosystem, better preparing them for roles as producers of dynamic forms of media. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 6570 - Race, Class, and Gender
None of us lives our lives through linear or exclusive experiences of race, class, or gender. Instead, we exist through multiplicities of identity that are informed through race, class, and gender, as well as other social determinants. Human diversity, increasingly framed in terms of intersectionality - focused on the mutual interrelatedness of central social categorizations such as gender, ethnicity/race, social class and sexualit(ies) - is becoming more prominent in research, scholarship, and practice. The goal for this course is modest - to expand our awareness of how race, class, and gender shape our lives, historically and in the present day. If this heightened awareness leads to changes in the way we talk with and about each other, represent the other, provide services, and live our lives on a day-to-day basis, then the course will have more than satisfied its intent. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 6585 - The Human Right to Adequate Food
Ending hunger is a deeply political issue, involving the play of power and conflicting interests. It must involve much more than the delivery of particular goods or services. It requires recognition and respect for human rights, and it may require some sort of reconfiguration of the social order, locally, nationally, and globally. Ending hunger requires serious planning, and agreement on a guiding vision. This course is designed to help participants figure out how to do that, in the contexts that interest us. This course is offered in a cooperative arrangement with the University of Sydney in Australia. The course utilizes the University of Sydney’s Blackboard online learning platform. Saybrook students enrolled in the course participate in the course together with students from the University of Sydney Peace and Conflict Studies Program. Unlike other Saybrook courses, the term of this course is twelve weeks. Students register for the course as they usually do, and will receive course log-in information directly from the instructor. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 6590 - Peace and Justice Studies
This course reviews theory and data from psychology and other human sciences in the study of peace, conflict, and violence. It covers both positive (harmonious and constructive ways of living) and negative (absence of war or violent conflict) conceptualizations of peace at the interpersonal, group, national and international levels. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 6592 - Immigration and Social Justice
This course seeks to provide historical context to current debates over immigration reform, integration, and citizenship. The course will cover the historical and systemic context for understanding contemporary immigration politics, including xenophobia, immigration and citizenship policy debates, and border issues. The course will explore the current experiences and needs of refugees, including the intersection of immigration policy with issues of race, and gender inequality and discrimination. Finally, the course will evaluate policy and advocacy options that provide humane, just and sustainable approaches to immigration.
3 credit(s)
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TSC 6594 - Peacebuilding
The field and practice of peacebuilding utilizes nonviolent tactics to transform social conflict and to build cultures of peace. In this course, students will survey a range of roles and domains within the field of peacebuilding, including how peacebuilding is utilized in international post-conflict contexts, and how countries and communities which have experienced deep social conflict can benefit from peacebuilding. Students will also consider how peacebuilding can address structural violence and how innovative arts-based praxis can deepen peacebuilding efforts. The course will also explore the reflective practitioner skills and characteristics that are necessary to design, assess, and impact transformation in unpredictable conflict contexts.
3 credit(s)
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TSC 6610 - Social System Transformation Theory
The aim of this course is to empower students to be able to critically evaluate social systems and become participants in their co-creation and transformation. The course enables students to recognize and analyze social systems and societal paradigms as they present themselves in various domains of human experience, develop a critical understanding of how humanistic values, developmental ideas and norms can be applied to social systems, and develop the ability to create strategies for changes in such systems and norms so that they will improve the well-being of the people who participate in them. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 6615 - Overview of Transformative Social Change Interventions
To change the world (or some small part of it) people need to take action. However, what are the most appropriate ways to take effective action? This course is designed to introduce students to the strategies, tactics, and methods used to promote transformative social change. Students will learn how to launch a project, non-profit organization, or movement, conduct successful meetings and build consensus, develop a strategy and tactics, take effective action, and maintain the change while nurturing his or her well-being. This course will provide students with a broad overview of how to bring about transformative change in social systems on a variety of levels. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 6620 - Psychology of Disability, Rehabilitation, and Empowerment
This course is designed to introduce the student to both (1) an understanding of how the community-at-large conceptualizes the role of persons with disabilities due to illness, trauma, and environmental impact (malnutrition, wars, etc.) and how that has transformed over the years given disability rights advocacy and legislation, particularly in the United States; (2) issues in treating the individual with disabilities and the differences and similarities in working with other individuals in treatment; and (3) voices of persons with disabilities and their narratives. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 7075 - Global Governance and Democratic World Federation
Humanity has long been plagued by wars, disease, famine and social injustice. In recent decades, these problems, along with new challenges such as climate change, terrorism, economic disruption, pandemics, and transnational organized crime, have become global in scale, posing serious threats to humankind. There have been three primary approaches advanced for nations to address these global concerns and best meet human needs — as sovereign states working together; by creating institutions, policies, and confederations such as the United Nations; or by forming a democratic world federation. This course traces the history of these ideas, the movement toward global democracy, how our current world system may create or exacerbate these global problems, and several approaches to their solution. We will also critically assess these approaches and discuss current efforts to implement them. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 7077 - Building Sustainability: The Global Crisis
Sustainability is defined as living in such a way that the capacity of future generations to meet their own needs is preserved. However, current patterns of human life are exhausting and destroying the gifts of nature that are necessary for life. To achieve sustainability, humans must refrain from depleting non-renewable resources and from polluting air, soil, and water. We must control both population and consumption and will likely need to end the extremes of wealth and poverty that are currently proving destructive to our habitats. Finally, sustainability will, we believe, require major changes in social institutions and in the way humans think and act toward each other and toward the earth. The pace at which we make these changes will determine how much of earth’s resources are left for generations yet to come. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 7079 - Building Sustainability: Present Practices in Community and Society
This course explores principles, implementation, and effectiveness of selected current sustainability approaches. It provides an overview of key perspectives on sustainability: The Natural Step, Natural Capitalism, renewable energy, green building, sustainable agriculture, and population control. This course introduces information about present practices relevant to many disciplines and social domains and provides a broad base on which to build further studies and real-world projects. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 7085 - Globalism and Power
This course describes different manifestations of globalization and identifies the powerful forces directing them, the costs and benefits that come with it, the evolving role of transnational groups, global NGOs, and the opportunities to find personal meaning and local purpose in a global society. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 7115 - Refugee Trauma and Resiliency
This course covers the breath of topics (i.e., mental health, human resiliency, human rights, humanitarian aid) related to working with displaced people (refugees, asylum seekers, exiled individuals and internally displaced people). It is designed as a survey course for students interested in understanding the landscape with regards to research and practice for the protection and assistance of refugees. This course is useful for the more experienced student who desires to develop an independent project or dissertation work based on one of the areas of concern presented in the course. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 7116 - Global Civil Society Activism and Social Change
This course will explore the role of global social movements and other civil society efforts in support of transformative change. The course will review current and historical efforts toward global solidarity, including movements in support of human rights, multicultural inclusion, social justice, ecological sustainability, and peace. The course will focus on exploration of initiatives-from local to transnational- that address issues, social problems and social goods through a global lens. It will also provide an opportunity to explore solidarity, including intersectional solidarity, across various social movements. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 8151 - Practicum in Professional Practice
This course is intended for students seeking practicum training not related to clinical practicum or the MFT program. Students are responsible for arranging the practicum and should consult their Specialization director in order to identify a Saybrook faculty liaison. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 9020 - TSC Qualifying Essay 1: Literature Review
The purpose of this course is to write an essay that entails an exploration of an area of research interest in order to demonstrate proficiency in literature review research competency to undertake a dissertation. The essay involves a content domain focus with the degree field, including a critical review of relevant theoretical, empirical and historical literature on the selected topic. 3 credit(s)
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TSC 9030 - TSC Qualifying Essay 2: Literature Review
The purpose of this course is to write an essay that entails an exploration of an area of research interest in order to demonstrate proficiency in literature review research competency to undertake 3 credit(s)
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