Program Learning Outcomes - Social Practice and Innovation, MA

By the end of the program, students graduating will be able to:

• Apply interdisciplinary knowledge from political science, legal studies, and communication and digital media studies to an outward-facing project.
• Engage with diverse communities and institutions to promote dialogue and collaboration oriented to social innovation and change.
• Critically examine knowledge about new and emerging trends in social innovation and change, and connect this knowledge to efforts to solve community and social problems.
• Identify and employ theories and methods that are appropriate and useful to building an action component into innovative knowledge creation and knowledge mobilization projects.
• Demonstrate the capacity to synthesize and apply knowledge in ways that address and engage community and social problems, with the goal of forging innovative solutions.
• Demonstrate awareness of the power dynamics and structural limits to disciplinary as well as interdisciplinary knowledge and methods.