Faculty Name

James Scheibel

Document Type

Syllabi

School

HSB

Department

MMPA

Course Subject

MPA

Course Number

8234

Course Section

01

Course Title

Civic Engagement

Academic Term and Year

Summer 2016

Credits

4.00

Course Description

Fundamental to our democracy is the active involvement of citizens. Today we hear a lot of talk about civic engagement. But what is civic engagement? How do the public and nonprofit sector become models of citizen participation? This course will explore the discontents and the promises, introducing students to a new model of engaged democratic practice which is deeply political in an older sense of politics as engaging different interests and views in solving common problems and creating common things.

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