PSYC 8280 - Psychology, Advocacy, and Organizing

3 Credit Hours
Description
To educate students in the role of psychological research in informing, framing, and advocating for public policy. Focus will be placed on the area of the instructor’s substantive policy research (e.g education, domestic violence). To develop students’ understanding of scholarly and community-based literature on community organizing and civic participation, with an emphasis on the principles and practices of effective community organizing via an understanding of social power dynamics.