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Week
1: What is
community?
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"Each
and every week I had the opportunity to hear from experts in the field
who were working in their own unique ways to transform their ideals
into action. They were grassroots advocates, attorneys,
politicians, non-profit executives, teachers, clinicians, students,
and activists. They shared strategies, told me about the issues,
and inspired me with personal stories of accomplishments and
challenges. You could never replicate this type of experience.”
Matthew Scherzer, Bates College
Above: Students with
Congressman Kendrick Meek
Below: Students in
front on the Montgomery County Pre-release Center
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A discussion of social capital, the concept of citizenship,
community as place; and community as people
Week 2: A focus
on Washington, DC
The history and current state of our nation’s capitol
Visits to Capitol Hill, neighborhoods, and a community
Week 3: Community
development
The role of market forces, government policies, and race
Community economic and political power
Going global: globalization and community
Week 4
& 5: Community
safety and the environment
Common spaces
Public safety
Gentrification
Week
6: Housing
Housing the poor
Owning a home
Integration: economic and ethnic
Week 7: Investing
in people: globalization and immigration
Week
8: Investing
(cont.): from welfare to work to asset-building
Week 9: Making
work pay
Health care
Child care
Jobs and pay
Week
10: Families:
work, poverty and morality
Weeks 11-12: Children and
education
Child welfare
Early childhood
Successful education policies and successful schools
What no school can do
Weeks 13-14: Transforming
Communities
The means: service, organizing, advocacy, litigation
The institutions: government, business, nonprofits and leaders
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