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Apr 24, 2024
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2017-2018 HillBook (Class of 2021) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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LC 211 - Learning Community: Is There a Problem Here? (Community Based-Learning)Four Credits
Spring 2018
In today’s environment, students are consumers and creators of information, but participation in a rapidly changing social and political ecosystem demands the development of skills of sophisticated cognitive engagement rather than simply being passive consumers of information. With an emphasis on information use, access and ethics, students will evaluate the ways in which stakeholders choose to construct perspectives on and responses to social problems. Students will explore the role that bias, misinformation, big money and problem framing has in influencing a community’s stock of knowledge on issues such as the opioid epidemic or the housing crisis. By the end of this LC students will have the skills to deconstruct what is presented to them on these issues, develop their own evidence based perspectives and advocate for access to information particularly for marginalized groups in a society.
General Education Attribute(s): Moral Inquiry
Note: This is a hybrid course which will be taught partially online.
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