2012-03

Arizona State University
University Senate
Fall 2011

Senate Motion #2012-03

Motion Introduced by: Curriculum and Academic Programs Committee, Arnold Maltz, Chair
 
Date of First Reading: August 29, 2011
 
Date of Second Reading: September 26, 2011
 
Title of Motion: Request from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences – School of Social Transformation – for the establishment of an undergraduate certificate in Social Transformation
 
Action Requested: The Curriculum and Academic Programs Committee recommends University Senate approval of a proposal submitted by the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences – School of Social Transformation – for the establishment of an undergraduate certificate in Social Transformation
 
Rationale: The undergraduate certificate in Social Transformation introduces students to the ways in which social change is catalyzed by social movements, social entrepreneurship, social innovation, protest, law, activism and organizing. Students enrolled in the certificate learn how diverse communities locally and globally have achieved social change, understand theories of social transformation, and consider how to apply what they have learned about social transformation and transformational knowledge to the social problems facing communities today. The coursework provides comparative, transdisciplinary, and socially engaged frameworks within which to understand local and global mobilization, including but not limited to civil rights movements, labor movements, democracy movements, movements for global justice and for gender equality. Students learn how communities that have traditionally been institutionally marginalized have successfully mobilized to achieve institutional, political, cultural, and economic change.