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IDST 310 Principles of Civic Engagement

The goal of this is to help prepare students for a lifetime of responsible citizenship and civic engagement. As a foundation course, it will have rigorous civic and community engagement components.
4 Undergraduate credits

Effective December 15, 2010 to present

Meets graduation requirements for

Learning outcomes

General

  • Analyze multiple perspectives on the roles of citizens in a democratic society.
  • Know the roles and forms of civic engagement and can assess the efficacy of different approaches and strategies.
  • Understand critical social, cultural, political and historical dynamics that underlie civic engagement from a US and global perspective.
  • Can evaluate at least one specific issue area or context in which civic engagement takes place.
  • Can evaluate at least one specific issue area or context in which civic engagement takes place.

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum

Goal 9: Ethical and Civic Responsibility

  • Examine, articulate, and apply their own ethical views.
  • Understand and apply core concepts (e.g. politics, rights and obligations, justice, liberty) to specific issues.
  • Analyze and reflect on the ethical dimensions of legal, social, and scientific issues.
  • Recognize the diversity of political motivations and interests of others.
  • Identify ways to exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.