Activating Ecological Society
Students work toward an ecological society by learning to navigate power structures, build consensus, and create an action portfolio for social and ecological change.
Summary
Lectures are small, with a median of 23 enrolled students in the recorded sections.
What you’ll be able to do
Work with a community to make social and ecological change.
Describe how power influences access to resources and opportunities.
Explain the innerworkings of organizations, such as corporations and non-profits.
Use collaborative methods to analyze a problem, identify how the problem can be turned into a question, and develop strategies to address that question.
Identify and make skillful use of relevant, reliable, and high-quality research sources appropriate to Community and Environmental Sociology.
Use the writing process to develop a fledgling idea into a formal project and presentation.
Source: UW Guide
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the class
Work toward an ecological society, where organizations and organizers create the conditions for mutually beneficial relationships across species, social space, and time. Discover tools that help you to activate ecological society. Identify communities to work with and your best role. Learn how to navigate power structures to make change and how to weave together different ways of knowing. Reframe problems into questions, use processes for consensus building, and galvanize dissent into purpose. Develop competency in identifying predominant organizations (for-profit, non-profit, and cutting-edge entities such as community trusts). Create an action portfolio demonstrating an ability to activate ecological society.
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Topics
- Ecological society and mutualistic relationships
- Power structures and diverse epistemologies
- Organizational types including for-profits, non-profits, and community trusts
- Influence of power on resource and opportunity access
Skills
- Navigating power structures and weaving different ways of knowing
- Consensus building and reframing problems into questions
- Identifying and analyzing organizational structures
- Creating an action portfolio for social and ecological change
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