ClassInfo - Spring 2018 Public Affairs Classes Taught by Merrie Benasutti

Spring 2018 | PA 3481 Section 001: Cedar Riverside: Where The World Meets MN (54960)

Instructor(s): Merrie Benasutti
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 2 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F only
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: Community Engaged Learning
Times and Locations:: Extended Regular Session

01/02/2018 - 01/12/2018

Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri 08:30AM - 12:30PM

UMTC, West Bank

Hubert H Humphrey Center 15

01/05/2018

Fri 07:00PM - 10:00PM

UMTC, West Bank

Virtual Rooms NORMREQD
Enrollment Status:: Open (12 of 20 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: The Cedar Riverside Neighborhood; Where the World Meets Minnesota is an immersion course in our Cedar Riverside neighborhood that parallels the immersion experience of study abroad. The course encourages civic engagement and will provide opportunity to learn and work in the Cedar Riverside community while examining questions of leadership, power, cultural diversity and social change. Students will participate in class-based discussion seminars, neighborhood excursions and community work. Throughout the immersion experience, students are challenged to question, think, and respond thoughtfully to current issues facing the Cedar-Riverside community and cultivate leadership skills. Students can expect to gain new frameworks for understanding leadership and civic engagement in a domestic cultural context, deepened skill in identifying complex problems, strategic questioning, reflection and meaning making, as well as consciousness of relationship between self, world and text/theory.
Class Notes:: Class includes a site visit the evening of Friday, 1/5/18. Access ClassInfo entry at: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?benas021+PA3481+Spring2018
Class Description:: The winter session course is an immersion in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood that parallels the immersion experience of study abroad. The course encourages civic engagement and will provide opportunity to learn and work in the Cedar Riverside community while examining questions of leadership, power, cultural diversity and social change.

Students will participate in class-based discussion seminars, neighborhood excursions and community work. Throughout the winter session, you will be challenged to question, think, and respond thoughtfully to the issues facing the Cedar-Riverside community and cultivate leadership skills.

Students in the Cedar Riverside course will learn about their own leadership styles, skills, and goals. Students can expect to gain:
 New frameworks for understanding leadership and civic engagement in a domestic
cultural context
 Deepened skill in identifying problems, strategic questioning, reflection and meaning
making
 Consciousness of relationship between self, world and text/theory
Learning Objectives:: 1. Develop an analysis of your current leadership. Reflect and revise the analysis throughout the winter session.
2. Develop an understanding of how your values, perceptions and identity influence how you observe and interpret different cultural contexts (your cultural context).
3. Gain an understanding of leadership from the individual, group, and community/societal perspectives.
4. Gain an understanding of how individual leaders are influenced by the community context and/or need to engage with the community to facilitate change. Learn more about community identity through the use of visual and auditory "clues." (Ability to analyze complex social issues and
create sustainable/effective actions.)
5. Understand and appreciate the historical, cultural, economic and political forces that shape
societal complexities.
Grading:: See syllabus for assignment and grading details.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54960/1183
Syllabus:: http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/benas021_PA3481_Spring2018.pdf
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 21 February 2018

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