About
The Social Justice Innovation Lab is cross-disciplinary class that offers a rigorous, project-based introduction to social justice organizing, activism and action-based research. Students work in small teams to develop and implement collaboratively defined social justice projects. As a class, we develop a sustained practice of research and inquiry to support our group projects, learning how to shape and pursue self-directed research agendas, and how to turn this research into a sustainable and achievable project that can make a meaningful social and political impact.
The Fall 2018 service-learning partner for the course is the Richmond Legal Aid Justice Center's Civil Rights & Racial Justice Program.
Goals
- Understand the relationship between social power and social inequality
- Understand the history and contemporary context of social justice organizing
- Develop and demonstrate public skills, strategies, and techniques of social justice organizing
- Critically reflect and act on the role and responsibility of individuals and groups in organizing and creating social change
Students Projects