Courses

Required Introductory Course:

• CVS 0020/PHIL 0020/PS 0020: Introduction to Civic Studies (Brian Schaffer, Peter Levine)

 
Thinking about Justice:

• ENG 176/CVS 0110/PJS 176/ENV 176: Earth Matters (Elizabeth Ammons)
• CVS 0014/PHIL 24: Introduction to Ethics (Monica Link)
• CVS 0018/PS 0041/PHIL 0041: Western Political Thought (Vickie Sullivan)
• CVS 0015/REL 0001: Introduction to Religion (Owen Cornwall)
• CVS 0210/UEP 0286: Environmental Ethics (Sheldon Krimsky)
• PHIL 0092-03/Env 0095-01 Climate Change Ethics (George Smith)
• PHIL 0191:03 Seminar: Race and Black Progress (Lionel McPherson)
• SOC 188 Seminar: Du Bois's Sociological Dream (Freeden Oeur)

 
Social Conflict, Inequality, and Violence:

• CVS 0027/SOC 0011: Sociology of Race & Ethnicity (Staff) PS 121: Seminar: Political Culture in Comparative Perspective (Conuelo Cruz)
• CVS 0121/SOC 113: Urban Sociology: Global Perspectives on Space, Inequality and Resistance (Anjuli Fahlberg)
• CVS 0129/ECON 144: Income Inequality, Poverty, and Economic Justice (Elizabeth Setren)
• HIST 109: Decolonization: Race, Empire, Archive (Kris Manjapra)
• SOC 112: Criminology (Daanika Gordon)

 
Civic Action and Social Movements:

• ANTH 144: Media of the Middle East (Amahl Bishara)
• CVS 0033/REL 0042/HIST 125/AMER 15: Religion and Politics in American History (Heather Curtis)
• CVS 0035/PSY 13: Social Psychology (Keith Maddox)
• CVS 0131/SOC 106: Political Sociology (Anjuli Fahlberg)
• CVS 0132/CSHD 165: Families, Schools, and Child Development (Christine McWayne)
• CVS 0150-02/PS 0118-02: Organizing for Social Change (Daniel LeBlanc & Kenneth Gladston)
• ENG 23/CVS 0031: Dissent & Democracy: American Literature to 1900 (Elizabeth Ammons or Nathan Wolff) 
   

Civic Skills:

• AMER 0145: Mass Incarceration and the Literature of Confinement (Hilary Binda)
• CVS 0049/PHIL 92-02: Philosophy for Children (Susan Russinoff)
• CVS 0083A: Tisch Scholars Foundation A (Grace Talusan, Sara J. Allred)
• CVS 0084: Tisch Scholars Fieldwork Pract (Sara J. Allred)
• CVS 0145/ENV 120: Introduction to Environmental Fieldwork (Staff)
• CVS 0147/CSHD 167: Children and Mass Media (Julie Dobrow)
• CVS 0150-01: Media, Civics & Social Change (Anthony Rudel)
• CVS 0150-04: Dialogue, Identity, and Civic Action (Jonathan Garlick)
• CVS 0150-06/PS 118-01: Hindsight Might Not Be 2020 - The Upheaval of Political Communications in the Era of Trump (Philippe Reines)
• CVS 0170/CSHD 143-02: Developing Leaders Who Make a Difference: Leadership in Civic Context (Diane Ryan)
• CVS 0183/UEP 0130/PJS 0131: Negotiation, Mediation, and Conflict Resolution (Robert Burdick)
• ED 164: Education for Peace and Justice (Deborah Donahue-Keegan)
• ENV 170/CVS 0149: Environmental Data Analysis and Visualization (Kyle Monahan)
• EXP 0079: EPIIC: Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship
• PJS 50: Science and Civic Action (Jonathan Garlick)

 
Internship Seminar:

• CVS 099: A required internship. This includes a weekly 2.5 hour class with graded assignments and a final project.

 
Capstone Seminar: