This intensive experiential course will give students hands-on experience participating in and leading activities to develop youth leadership and peace building capacities, including outdoor education, group challenge, teambuilding, trust building, and dialogue facilitation. Students will learn how to teach about global youth issues and civics, how to promote youth advocacy and activism, and how to manage social and conflict dynamics in inter-group youth programs. The course will build skills for youth leadership in such areas as training design, inter-group dialogue facilitation, and global issues curriculum development, e.g., how to engage youth about current issues, such as child labor, global warming, and drug abuse. This course is designed to prepare students to work in and to run major components of social issue-oriented youth programs.
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