Environmental Studies 375: Ecosocial Advocacy
Thinking activism and practical idealism
Tuesday & Thursday, 11:30-1:00, Swart 5
*** NOTE: Print and bring to the first class the syllabus, the four assignments, and the Special Study Aids for the Assignments.***
SYLLABUS (as word document)
COMMITTEES
SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENTS
Case study: as html or as Word document
Group project: as html or as Word document
Film analysis: as html or as Word document
Your philosophy of activism: as html or as Word document
Responses to Earth Charter and related events: as html
SPECIAL STUDY AIDS FOR THE ASSIGNMENTS
Case study dimensions: as html or as Word document
Case study possibilities: as html or as Word document
Case study progress report: as html
Types of ecosocial activism: as html or as Word document
Questions in the analysis of activism: as html or as Word document
Evaluating activism: as html or as Word document
Films relevant to ecosocial activism.
STUDY QUESTIONS
Questions about organizations, meetings, and actions
Questions on Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals
General questions on Midwest Academy's Organizing for Social Change
ACTIVISM AIDS
Websites about sustainable dining at other campuses
Web Resources, including lists of relevant organizations
Fair Trade information and links
Websites on Fair Trade
Websites on cage free eggs
On Joe Hill's Songs
STUDY AIDS
Items on e-reserve
Student lead discussions
Alinsky's 13 rules of power tactics
Alinsky's 11 rules about means and ends
Four traditional Western approaches to ethics
Gandhi: Selected quotations on activism
Gandhi: 10 rules for dealing with conflict
Gandhi: 12 principles of strategic nonviolent conflict
Gandhi: Major campaigns
Gandhi: Important people associated with his activism
Gandhi: Rules, codes, and steps
Gandhi: Short chronology of Gandhi's life
Gandhi: Websites
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