Engaging Communities through Social Innovation

This course partners with communities to work collaboratively to affect meaningful change. This course would suit those students with an interest in active citizenship, social activism, community engagement, and social innovation with our local or global communities. Students will critically engage with the theories of volunteering, service and experiential learning. A variety of innovative multi-modal experiences including field trips, generating creative content, and team projects, will enable you to evaluate the impact of your own community engagement.

15 points

Introduction to Youth Leadership: Leading the Self

What is the role of 'the self' in youth and community leadership? What are the personal dispositions required for youth and community leadership and how might these be nurtured within, for and by the self, and/or by others? In this course, students will explore self-leadership from contemporary psychological, philosophical, cultural, and/or any other theoretical perspective/s relevant to their situation and to contemporary Aotearoa. Kaupapa Maori approaches will be explored, as part of which students will be required to have experienced a stay on the noho marae (or alternative ).

15 points

Social Leadership: Leading with Others

Social leadership - leading with others - explores the dynamics of collaboration and social change and their implications for leadership. Theories of group leadership, problem-solving styles and the potential of different types of leadership will be analysed and critiqued. In this course, students will reflect on and trace their participation as members of various communities: whanau, community, iwi, professional, social and so on. The course draws on the taonga of bicultural Aotearoa to consider the strengths of indigenous leadership and its resonance with and insights for community leadership globally

15 points

YACL101; or 30 points at 100 level in YACL, CHCH, EDUC, POLS, SOCI or HSRV; or permission of the Head of School.