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Courses

Our innovative courses provide the foundation for learning during the Social Justice Summer. Courses are offered on the Brandeis campus at convenient times for students with busy summer schedules. Choose to take one or both courses. Each college-level course explores a different social justice theme.

Course Offerings

Peace Builders and Peacemakers? Can They Transform the
Middle East?
Instructor: Lee Perlman
Tuesday, Thursday
9 — 11 a.m.
Can conflict be transformed into peace and coexistence?
Through an in-depth inquiry into the Palestinian Israeli Conflict, this course will explore the roles that individuals, groups, societies and governments play in this conflict and how they make a difference. You will be actively engaged through many different disciplines including sociology, political science, international relations, and peace and conflicts studies. This course will include field trips, as well as guest lecturers, workshops, simulation and role play.
Media and Justice
Instructor: Nicole Fox
Tuesday, Thursday
4— 6 p.m.
What role does the media play in terms of social justice on global, local and personal levels?
Using case studies, you will examine the American advertising industry, representations of crime in popular television and news reports, media reporting in times of global conflict, and the use of the media during times of social change. This class will explore media themes in terms of social justice through hands-on analysis of case studies, multimedia presentations, guest speakers and critical analysis of current technological trends, such as Twitter, blogs and Facebook.
Global Social Problems and Local Strategies for Solutions
Instructor: Nicole Fox
Tuesday, Thursday
6— 8 p.m.
This course invites students to examine critically the broad spectrum of injustice in the world while gaining an understanding of how the New England area is working to combat these injustices.  For the first three weeks we will be analyzing injustice on the individual, local and global levels.  This will include three specific forms of injustice: structural and economic, environmental injustice and political violence such as genocide.  This class will meet twice a week with the first day of the week including lectures, films and engaging discussions on the broader issue at large.  The second day of the week will include a guest speaker from the greater Boston area that will discuss the ways in which our community is working to combat injustice.  During the last two weeks of the course we will be analyzing violence prevention and treatment models, theories on nonviolence/pacifism and how communities recover from times of injustice.  This course is especially pertinent in times of massive unemployment and global conflict and aims to understand these troubled times within a local context for solutions.
Cost: 1,600 per course