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  • SJS 205: Economic Geography

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    This class surveys an array of approaches geographers us to study the spatiality of economic activity, from the motions of various workers to the locational choices of multinational corporations. It offers a critical analysis of the geography of the contemporary economy as it operates in our daily lives and the world beyond us. Focusing on the way that components of the economy move-geographically, historically, qualitatively, and quantitatively- from the sphere of production to those of exchange, consumption, distribution, reproduction, and back to production, the course uncovers the manner in which the economy is inherently geographical. Course Objectives 1) Identify basic economic concepts, including production, consumption, exchange, distribution, and investment. 2) Explain fundamental geographical concepts such as space, place, location, territory, landscape, borders, and mobility. 3) Distinguish between different theoretical approaches of economic geography. 4) Investigate a real-world case study of economic geography. 5) Apply an understanding of economic geography to a real world case study of economic geography.
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  • SJS 222: The Anthropology of Money

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    This course surveys the contemporary and historical uses of money as a human project from basic systems of reciprocity to the evolving forms of virtual currency. Drawing on the depth and breadth of anthropological investigation into human economic practices. This course interrogates the myriad forms that currency takes in the current moment as well as exploring the important historical relationship between the advent of money as a human "thought technology"and the rise of social complexity, hierarchy and inequality. Course Objectives 1) Survey the role of money in the history of human economic systems. 2) Describe the historical and contempoary relationships between reciprocity, redistribution and market principles as logics of exchanges. 3) Distinguish the fundamental difference between the concepts and practices of social obligation, credit, and debt across the length and breadth of human experiance. 4) Identify basic forms-from commodity, to fiat, to virtual, etc- that curency can and does take in the contemprorary usage. 5) Explore the contemporary relationship between the practice of fiat currency, global investment strategies and consumer demand.
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  • SJS 225: Intro to Grant-Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    This Course will introduce students to the craft of professional grant-writing for fields such as the arts, social justice iniatiaves, the sciences, education, and other non-profit work. Students will learn how to identify funding opportunities, calculate a budget of projected expenses, and write key sections of grant proposals. The course will introduce successful grant-writing practices at the foundation and corporate levels and provide a general view of government grant practices.Prerequisites: ENGL 101 Course Objectives 1) Identify market trends in grantmaking. 2) Articulate an understanding of key practices in grant-writing at the foundation, corporate, and government levels. 3) Calculate a budge of projected costs and needed revenues. 4) Apply the principles of grant-writing to hypothetical examples. 5) Create original sections of grant proposals.
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  • SJS 240: The South African Anti-Apartheid Movement

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    This course explores the political geographies of South Africa from the establishment of apartheid in 1948 to the present post-apartheid age. Students will examine geographic studies and primary source material to discover the ways in which various global processes have woven their way into South Africa's landscapes over the past seventy years, and in turn, how South Africa's political geographies have impacted global markets, politics, and practices. The first half of the course will take a detailed look at how the white-minority South African government geographically implemented and maintained apartheid according to a colonial logic of racial capitalism. The second half of the course will focus upon ways in which South Africans , Africans in neighboring states, and the broader international community organized to resist, and eventually end, apartheid. The course will thus serve as an historical case study of a relatively successful organizing and advocacy campaign for social justice. Course Objectives 1) Articulate a firm understanding of basic geographical concepts. 2) Explain how solidarity works politically and geographically. 3) Illustrate how race, geography, and capitalism are mutually constitutive. 4) Analyze the political geographies of South African apartheid and anti-apartheid movement.
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  • SJS 260: Economic Tools for Advocacy

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    Students will learn how to use economic tools to advocate for various social justice causes. The course will focus on how strategies such as shareholder activism, boycott campaigns, divestiture, and worker solidarity campaigns, among other tools, can put economic pressure on companies and governments to change their policies. A combination of historical case studies and hypothetical scenarios will illustrate how these tools work on the ground. Course Objectives (1) Identify basic economic concepts, such as production, consumption, exchange, distribution, and investment. (2) Explain how production, consumption, exchange, distribution, and investment can be strategically used as tools for advocacy. (3) Determine which economic advocacy tools may best work for different situations. (4) Articulate an understanding of how specific economic advocacy tools have been used in real campaigns for social justice. (5) Apply economic advocacy tools to hypothetical campaigns for social justice.
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  • SJS 295: Social Justice Special Topics

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

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  • SJS 300: Understanding Injustice II

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    An intensive analysis of multiple facets of understanding injustice and its re/creation locally, nationally, and/or globally. Topics vary by semester. Prerequisite: SJS 150 or SJS 175 and SJS 101. Course Objectives (1) Articulate, through speech and writing, an understanding of the facets of injustice under review. (2) Recognize the ways in which the facets of injustice under review can be applied to various social issues and forms of social inequality. (3) Strengthen written and oral communication skills. (4) Strengthen critical and analytical thinking skills.
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  • SJS 301: Articulating Social Justice II

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    An investigation of several means by which individuals and groups express and/or enact social justice, locally, nationally, and/or globally. Topics may vary by semester. Prerequisite: SJS 150 or SJS 175 and SJS 101. Course Objectives (1) Articulate , through speech and writing, an understanding of the means under review by which people express and /or enact social injustice. (2) Recognize the ways in which the means of articulating social justice under review can be applied to various social issues and forms of social inequality, locally, nationally, and/or globally. (3) Strengthen written and oral communication skills. (4) Strengthen critical and analytical thinking skills.
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  • SJS 302: Organizing & Advocacy II

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    This advanced course will allow students to explore and apply a set of tools used to organize social justice campaigns and advocate for a social justice cause. Topics may vary by semester. Prerequisites: SJS 202 or CENG 250. Course Objectives (1) Identify particular advocacy and organizing tools for social injustice. (2) Distinguish which advocacy and organizing tools would work best in a particular political, economic, and cultural context. (3) Apply at least one of these tools in an actual organizing and advocacy campaign. (4) Defend, in speech and writing, the use of particular organizing and advocacy tools for particular contexts.
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  • SJS 303: Direct Practice II

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    This advanced course will allow students to explore and apply a set of direct practice tools in the pursuit of social justice. Topics may vary by semester. Prerequisite: SJS 303. Course Objective (1) Describe particular direct practice tools that may be used toward social justice. (2) Distinguish which direct practice tools would work best in particular political, economic, and cultural contexts. (3) Identify the ways in which different social services agencies use direct practice tools toward social justice. (4) Apply elementary qualitative research skills to investigate a particular social services agency.
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