Communicating for Equity and Social Change

This course examines the communication strategies of activists, social movement leaders, and politicians who have worked for the equity and inclusion of groups marginalized according to race, gender, class, ethnicity, citizenship, sexuality, or ability. The course will explore constraints and obstacles to marginalized groups’ political participation and representation, how members of marginalized groups have rhetorically navigated those obstacles, and how their social protest has been represented in mediated texts. Each section of this course will vary according to the instructor’s expertise and interests (perhaps focusing more on race, or gender, or ethnicity, etc.), but each section will approach power in terms of intersectionality.Open to Austin W. Marxe School of Public and International Affairs students; others with Marxe Schoolpermission.