Advancement of Public Action

(Re)Center: Reimagining a New Student Center — ARC4116.01

Fall 2018

Instructor: Andrew Schlatter Donald Sherekfin

Credits: 4

This course presents an opportunity to participate in re-imagining the “next life” of the Student Center, as it transitions from its temporary function as a dining facility back to a home for student-centered programming. Students will work together collaboratively to generate program concepts and physical design ideas as a basis for envisioning a full interior renovation of

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A Community Health Approach to Social Emergencies, American Racism, and Firearm Injury Prevention — APA2325.01) (cancelled

Fall 2020

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 1

Poor health outcomes in modern, advanced societies are influenced largely by a series of critical social factors known collectively as social determinants of health: economic inequity, racism, community violence and food insecurity, among others. Social determinants of health contribute directly to medical and social emergencies, and as the nexus of the US healthcare safety net

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A Community Health Approach to Social Emergencies, American Racism, and Firearm Injury Prevention — APA2325.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Credits: 2

This course introduces students to the confluence of factors related to firearm injury - a leading cause of premature death in the United States. Sessions will explore multi-level health strategies that may be developed to prevent and treat firearm injury in American society. Students will gain exposure and experience in program design by creating, operationalizing, and

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A Dual Narrative Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict — APA2246.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Michael Cohen

Credits: 2

Sari Nusseibeh, a Palestinian philosopher and past President of Al-Quds University, and Yossi Klein Halevi, an Israeli journalist, have each authored books from their perspectives, analysis, and insights into the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Nusseibeh’s book is called, “Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life,” while Halevi’s book is called, “Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

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Access is a Practice: Dance and Disability Studies — DAN4373.01

Spring 2026

Instructor: Londs Reuter

Days & Time: TU,FR 2:10pm-4:00pm

Credits: 2

Accessibility describes the practice of freeing a space or an event so it might be visited by more people in more ways than one could ever presume at the outset. In this course, we will explore the litany of practices that allow more people (and in particular, disabled, mad, and chronically ill people) into all spheres of public life with a particular focus on performance

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Action Research Lab for Food Sovereignty — APA4239.01

Spring 2020

Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco

Credits: 4

Action research is a methodology for learning while doing and food sovereignty is the practice of self-determination in food systems. Food sovereignty projects solve food insecurity by empowering communities and individuals to produce their own culturally appropriate food and medicine. The class will split into 4 groups, each working on a different food sovereignty related

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Action Research Lab for Food Sovereignty — APA4239.01

Spring 2021

Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco

Credits: 4

Action research is a methodology for learning while doing and food sovereignty is the practice of self-determination in food systems. Food sovereignty projects solve food insecurity by empowering communities and individuals to produce their own culturally appropriate food and medicine. The class will split into affinity groups, each working on different food sovereignty related

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Activating Democracy 2018 — APA2153.02

Fall 2018

Instructor: Brian Campion

Credits: 2

Historians may one day refer to the year 2018, as the year Americans returned to activism. Whether it was the election of Trump, his policies, schools shootings, or a built up disagreement with Congress more and more Americans are organizing and working to push the agendas important to them. This course looks at the workings of government at all levels and examines how to

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Addressing a Growing Environmental Problem: Plastic Pollution — APA4139.01

Spring 2019

Instructor: Judith Enck

Credits: 2

This class will provide the latest scientific, economic and policy information to students and marry that information to public action strategies that each student will be expected to lead. With guidance from the faculty, students develop and then implement their strategy for public action. Special attention will be paid to strategies that can be replicated. With over 8 million

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Advanced CAPA Workshop — APA4256.01

Spring 2023

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Credits: 4

This course is for students who are doing advanced work in public action. Students create a digital portfolio that includes a project in a specific local, national or international community. Students will build this portfolio over the term that includes their research, documentation and a final showing of work. Most students connect this project to work in another discipline

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Advanced Class in Reducing Plastic Pollution Through Community Action — APA4159.01

Fall 2019

Instructor: Judith Enck

Credits: 4

This is an advanced plastic pollution course, housed in the Center for the Advancement of Public Action and built on the foundation of public action. Plastic pollution is a growing problem which affects oceans, fish and wildlife, human health and contributes to climate change. The students should have a comprehensive understanding of the issue

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Advanced Facilitation, Mediation and Negotiation — APA4315.01

Spring 2024

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Credits: 2

This class is for students who have studied negotiation, mediation and/or restorative justice and want to engage in advanced work. We will practice complex problem simulations and look at case studies of wicked problems. We will review and understand the Conflict Resolution Complexity Model. Students need to have studied negotiation, mediation and/or restorative justice

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Advanced Improvisation for an Age of Uncertainty — APA4212.01

Fall 2025

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-4:00pm

Credits: 2

This is an advanced improvisation class for students from all disciplines. We will learn the concepts of complexity and advance our skills in pattern recognition, self-organization, emergent structuring, and development of movement, verbal, visual and design vocabularies. Collaborative processes will be explored to further different forms of creative practices, both to

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Advanced Leadership and Strategic Planning Workshop — APA4130.01

Fall 2014

Instructor: alison dennis

Days & Time: TBA

Credits: 4

The problems we face today are too great for any one person to solve alone. But what does it practically take to lead meaningful change and advance public action? What leadership capacities are needed now to move ourselves and others forward strategically and adaptively in a changing world? This course will support student leaders and entrepreneurs who are engaged in forwarding

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Advanced Mediation — MOD4101.01

Spring 2014

Instructor: Peter Pagnucco

Credits: 1

This course is an advanced level of training in mediation. Advanced mediator skills are featured including effective neutral intervention, constructive communication, reframing, problem framing, interest-based negotiation and agreement writing. Students will participate in daily role-play exercises, read and present articles, and write a reflection essay or short project.

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Advanced Mediation — APA4206.01

Spring 2016

Instructor: Peter Pagnucco

Credits: 1

This course is an advanced level of training in mediation and negotiation. Advanced mediator skills are featured including effective neutral intervention, constructive communication, reframing, problem framing, interest‐based negotiation and agreement writing. Students will participate in role‐play exercises, read and present articles, and write a reflection essay. Based on

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Advanced Mediation — APA4206.01

Spring 2017

Instructor: David Bond

Credits: 1

This course is an advanced level of training in mediation. Advanced mediator skills are featured, including effective neutral intervention, constructive communication, reframing, problem framing, interest‐based negotiation, and agreement writing. Students will participate in daily role‐play exercises, read and present articles, and write a reflection essay or short project.

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Advanced Mediation Training — MED4301.02

Spring 2015

Instructor: Peter Pagnucco

Credits: 1

This course is an advanced level of training in mediation and negotiation. Skills such as principled collaborative problem-solving, interest-based negotiation and impartiality are a part of the practice. Students will be asked to participate in role-play exercises, read a series of articles, and write a response paper and reflection essay. Based on attendance in the previous

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Advanced Restorative Justice — APA4166.02

Fall 2024

Instructor: Alisa Del Tufo

Credits: 2

Restorative Justice is a practice and a philosophy. It combines theories, concepts and actions from multiple fields including philosophy, psychology, criminal justice and values found in many faith traditions. In this 4000 level class we will dive deeply into concepts like shame, forgiveness, trauma, revenge and healing. We will relate these powerful concepts to the ideas and

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Advanced Restorative Justice Seminar — APA4251.02

Fall 2020

Instructor: Carly Rudzinski

Credits: 2

Restorative Justice is a set of values and practices that are having a considerable impact on the way our justice system, schools, workplaces, conflict zones and communities think about and enact justice. Restorative Justice asks: What if harm doers were given the opportunity to take responsibility and make amends? If survivors were able to be active participants in defining

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Advanced Workshop in CAPA — APA4126.01

Spring 2015

Instructor: Susan Sgorbati

Credits: 2

This workshop is designed to enable students to pursue work they have already begun that is focused on public action regardless of the particular issue/s they are addressing and to integrate Field Work Term into that work. Students will be presenting their own work to the workshop as it unfolds. Some portion of the workshop will be dedicated to common experience - in particular

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