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First Seminar CEL Courses

Social Justice, History and Practice

Professor Celia Chazelle

Camden

The FSP, "Social Justice, History and Practice" explores a series of themes pertaining to the definition of a moral society, including poverty, environmental injustice, penal systems, health care, racism, and inequalities in public education. Class discussions focus on a selection of texts and films that shed light on these issues, but a major goal is to encourage the students to think about how the knowledge acquired from classroom work can inspire social engagement in the wider world.

A significant portion of the course is spent in community service in Camden, currently ranked the poorest city in the US. This is where the students have a chance to reflect “actively” on the relevance of the ideas developed through their studies to actual, deep social problems and to the lives of individual people who reside in their midst. Throughout the semester the students have been contributing posts and comments to a public blog, and their research projects involve designing the pages of a new Web site for the college organization they have founded, "Cure for Camden."