MPPA 610 - Advocacy Strategy and 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 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.