PPA 510 - Advocacy Strategy & Tactics for Social Change

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This course explores theories of change and impactful social movements as a means of preparing students to lead change processes. It examines the activities, contexts, challenges and ethics of community-based social change as they relate to organizations and institutional systems, work/task groups and individuals and the role of the community leaders in these processes. The course focuses on strategies and tactics to impact policy level change and how they may be used to create social equity in today’s political and social systems. Students will be encouraged to examine how advocacy groups, delivery systems and community organizations can work with all orders of government to address issues of social change. The course will also explore ways in which the involvement of community members can lead to the construction of socially just policies and services that impact on marginalized individuals and groups.