Social Change Courses @ Northeastern

Course Number: LAW7610

Department: Law (LAW)

Offers a unique opportunity to develop lawyering skills through the real-world experience of helping low-income and underserved entrepreneurs achieve their transactional goals and supporting community-led growth. Students, prepared and supported by an intensive seminar and close faculty supervision, assume the role of lawyers for their clients and their clients’ community businesses on the often-complex legal issues that startups, entrepreneurs and small businesses face.

Course Number: EDU 5102

Department: Education – CPS (EDU)

Introduces the facets of reflective practice beginning with a dispositional self-assessment to ground an exploration of culturally responsive teaching, culturally and linguistically sustaining practices, and to cultivate an activist mindset. Includes a community-based field component to explore funds of knowledge within specific community contexts to in order to support the development of an asset view of students and families and empower an understanding of dynamic experiential teaching and learning.

Course Number: EDU 6102

Department: Education – CPS (EDU)

Introduces the facets of reflective practice beginning with a dispositional self-assessment to ground an exploration of culturally responsive teaching, culturally and linguistically sustaining practices, and to cultivate an activist mindset. Includes a community-based field component to explore funds of knowledge within specific community contexts to in order to support the development of an asset view of students and families and empower an understanding of dynamic experiential teaching and learning.

Course Number: LAW7323

Department: Law (LAW)

This course relates to the formation, financial structure, and governance of business enterprises, especially incorporated businesses. Partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies and limited liability partnerships are also explored, principally as they compare to the corporate form. The topics studied include: rights of creditors to hold principals of the enterprise liable; distribution of control within the corporation; fiduciary duties of directors and officers; key aspects of the federal securities laws (including the regulation of insider trading and proxies); organic changes (such as mergers); shifts in control (such as takeovers and freeze-outs); and legal implications of the roles of corporations in society. The course introduces some of the specialized concepts explored in detail in courses on Securities Regulation and Corporate Finance.

Course Number: INTL 3300

Department: International Affairs (INTL)

Examines the media’s portrayal of conflicts and the peace process in the Middle East, Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Rwanda, and elsewhere. Evaluates the limits of fairness, balance, and accuracy in the coverage. Looks at the U.S. and international media—print, broadcast, and online—and some of the major stories in recent years and attempts to put these stories in historical, political, and social context. Analyzes the wide-ranging criticism of coverage from a variety of perspectives. INTL 3300 and JRNL 3300 are cross-listed.

Course Number: THTR 3100/6100

Department: Theatre (THTR)

Explores the immersive learning process of creating a contemporary living newspaper play by critically examining important social issues or questions; identifying, synthesizing, applying, and revising ideas; and engaging in team-building performative activities. Explores innovative ways to address civic engagement through a culminating workshop production of a treatment for the play.