BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:www.indybay.org PRODID:-//indybay/ical// v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:Indybay-72423 SEQUENCE:72423 CREATED:20050803T185100Z DESCRIPTION:Come and get all your questions answered about the Weekend BA and Weekday Evening MA Activism & Social Change Emphasis Degree Programs! Contact: Michael McAvoy 415.740.8833 mmcavoy@newcollege.edu Get a Degree to Change the World! Start This Fall! Get Your BA or MA Degree at San Francisco's New College of California in one of our Critical, Activist and Visionary Academic Programs focusing on Social Change, Ecology and Sustainability or radical Media Studies. Since 1971, New College of California in San Francisco has been offering accredited degrees which seek to link education and social change to provide students with the knowledge and skills to make the world more just, sacred and sustainable. Within the many offerings at New College, the Programs in Activism and Social Change; Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community and Media Studies work closely together to provide educational opportunities to learn how to confront and change the system, create ecologically sustainable alternatives and to create independent media to provide an alternative source of information about local, national and international events. ·Activism and Social Change BA/MA Program begins 3rd Year in Fall 2005! Ever dream there was a college where you could earn a degree in Activism? Now there is! New College of California in San Francisco, http://www.newcollege.edu/activismchange offers Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree Programs in Activism and Social Change to help create a more just, sacred and sustainable world. These BA & MA programs teach critical and relevant social theory, history and analysis of social movements and activist skills taught by a practicing local, national and international activist faculty. Students conduct activist BA or MA theses/projects using internships with local, national and/or globally-based organizations. Finally, all graduating students will develop concentrated learning in specific areas which will prepare them for activist careers in areas such as environmental justice, health and medical care, affordable housing and homelessness, union organizing, legal and human rights, peace activism, etc. The program's Core Faculty combines many years of integrating academic and activist work. In addition – Activist Faculty -- locally, nationally and internationally known activists such as Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange, environmental activist Julia 'Butterfly' Hill, Human Rights activist Van Jones and many others, serve as workshop leaders, guest lecturers and community advisors. This past year, 60’s civil rights and anti-war activist, founder of Students for a Democratic Society, and former California State Senator Tom Hayden was Activist Faculty-in-Residence teaching seminars in Social Movements and organizing a student project which is leading San Francisco to adopt the strongest anti-sweatshop legislation in the country. ************************************************************************************************** · New College North Bay Ecology and Sustainability Campus: Alternative Architecture& Natural Building, Sustainable Agriculture, Green Business and more! Alternative Education for ‘Another World that is Possible’! In 1998, an accomplished, visionary faculty and staff (including Santa Rosa residents Richard Heinberg author of The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies and PowerDown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World) created New College of California’s North Bay Campus in Santa Rosa http://www.newcollege.edu/northbay. Since that time, it has been granting fully accredited BA, MA and ‘Green’ MBA degrees to the leaders of the future (over 200 alumni) with curricula emphasizing a broad range of intelligent, socially and ecologically sustainable alternatives to war and terrorism, environmental pollution, and economic instability. The New College North Bay’s Bachelor’s Degree Program in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community is a one-year degree BA completion program offered on weekends and designed for people interested in the interdependence of culture, politics, ecology, and community and who want to learn how to create a sustainable future. The program focuses on developing a critical perspective of the history and present condition of modern society, while learning new ways to conceptualize solutions to modern problems and acquiring skills to build a sustainable future. Students can develop concentrations or majors in EcoDwelling; Ecological Agriculture; Consciousness, Healing and Ecology; Holistic Nutrition; Activism and Social Change or do a Self-Designed concentration in areas such as eco-psychology or sustainability education, Equally important are the New College North Bay Weekend Graduate MA and ‘Green’ MBA Degree Programs. In the Masters Program, the Core Leadership Seminars provide topical seminars in culture, ecology, and sustainable community; social and ecological theory; and leadership skills in creating social change and are combined with concentration area curriculum majors in EcoDwelling; Ecological Agriculture; Consciousness, Healing and Ecology; Holistic Nutrition; Activism and Social Change or independent study leading to a Self-Designed concentration such as Psychology or Education. Students can also pursue a ‘Green’ MBA in Environmental Entrepreneurship degree through a rigorous five-semester curriculum integrating the Core Leaderships Seminars, business skills classes and coursework in visionary environmental and socially responsible business practices. The New College North Bay Campus programs are offered in weekend intensive in order to be user-available to working students, as well as a students from a wide geographic area. Additionally, students in the BA and MA programs often can finish their degrees in one calendar year. **************************************************************************************************** ·Media Studies MA Program teaches how to create Alternative, Independent Radical Media! This program is a three-semester, 36-unit course of study leading to the Master of Arts (MA) in Media Studies. Offering an innovative media studies education for social change, the Media Studies Graduate Program is founded on the belief that vibrant alternative media are urgently needed to renew our democracy and achieve peace and social justice. The program encourages media makers to speak truth to power, expose injustice and enable marginalized communities to utilize media – and in these ways create a forum for the practice of democracy. Questioning the notion that media can be “objective,” the program explores models of media making that challenge people to think critically, imagine alternatives and embrace possibilities for a better world. The program includes a two-course sequence in Media and Society that examines the history and political economy of mainstream and alternative media, critical media literacy, and theoretical perspectives on media and culture. A three-course Media Lab sequence provides practical experience in print journalism, radio, video and web design. Students do more advanced work in journalism and media production through elective courses, internships and media projects. http://www.newcollege.edu/media_studies . ________________________________________________________________________ New College of California is a fully accredited institution offering undergraduate and graduate liberal arts degrees, as well as teacher credentialing, clinical psychology and law degrees for over 30 years and dedicated to integrating education and progressive social change. For information on these programs, interested potential students can contact Core Faculty members Helene Vosters MA, Activism and Social Change at 415.437.3408 or Michael McAvoy MA at 415.437.3465 or by email: activism@newcollege.edu. \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/08/03/72423.php SUMMARY:Activism and Social Change Program, New College Info Session LOCATION:Room 24, 766 Valencia St., San Francisco URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/08/03/72423.php DTSTART:20050809T020000Z DTEND:20050809T030000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR