TSC 7090 - Special Topics in Transformative Social Change

This course provides an opportunity for exploration of a variety of topics of current interest to Transformative Social Change students and faculty. The course content will be adapted to the content and issue areas determined in a specific offering of the course. This course may be repeated so long as the title and content are not the same.

This offering of the Special Topics in Transformative Social Change course focuses on global paradigms and social change. A paradigm is our view of the world, how we operate in it, and how we seek solutions to the challenges that emerge within this paradigm. As social change agents, we must also understand how paradigm shifts happen at the global level, what happens during them, and why they are necessary for transformational change. Students will explore current interrelated paradigms of neoliberalism, racism, terrorism, and nationalism and their role in dictating our approaches to social change. We will use decolonial frameworks to develop new ways to recognize how our current paradigms might be transformed, or newer paradigms be created for us to redefine current societal challenges, find new approaches to resolving these challenges, and to find new solutions to current social issues. 3 credits. 3 credit(s)

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