Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Define characteristics of social change
• Identify the underlying causes and basis for social change
• Identify the means that various groups take to achieve social change
• Identify factors that can inhibit social change
• Compare causes, goals, and outcomes of significant movements in America
• Apply outcomes of social change movements to personal experiences
• Compare and discuss accounts and perspectives of people engaged in social change
• Evaluate local issues and identify ways to perform social change around issues
• Develop a plan to create change around an identified local issue
• Organize and carry out a service project around an identified local issue