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UNDERGRADUATE STUDY PROGRAMS


Brown University - The Urban Education Semester
"The Urban Education Semester (UES) is a unique, interdisciplinary, academic immersion program, which introduces students from all academic backgrounds to the field of urban public education. The program helps students discover that high quality, effective education is possible in urban public schools.

Open to Brown University students and students attending a member college of the Venture Consortium, the program combines supervised fieldwork in outstanding public school classrooms with course work and advisement at Bank Street College of Education, one of the nation's leading graduate schools of education, in New York City."


Center for International Service-Learning
"Become a vital, active part of the solution instead of just coming to "study the problem." Don't miss this oportunity to experience international travel, earn college credit, and serve the poor. In the process you may find yourself changed for the rest of your life! Tools for accomplishing this include academic experiences such as interaction with host country universities, governmental agencies, embassies, private institutes, field stations, and other professional resource persons. Service experiences include on-site ministry with feeding programs, orphanages, schools, refugee assistance projects and housing projects."


Cornell University, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations - "Strategic Corporate Research: Understanding and Researching Corporate Ownership Structure, Corporate Finance, and the Sources of Corporate Power"
A Special Summer School Session For Undergraduate and Graduate Students Interested in Working in the Labor Movement Co-sponsored by the AFL-CIO
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This course will be designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the nature and structure of corporate ownership, finance, and power in todays economy. Through lectures, readings, case studies, and research training and exercises the class will provide students with the tools to pose and answer basic questions on the operations, structure, and industrial relations strategies of corporate America. In particular this course will focus on how these company characteristics, structures, and practices impact on the firms labor relations policies and strategies and how unions can best respond to and capitalize on these characteristics in union strategic organizing and bargaining campaigns."


Providence College - Feinstein Institute for Public Service, Major and Minor in Public and Community Service Studies
"The Feinstein Institute for Public Service offers an interdisciplinary program of study leading to the degree of bachelor of arts. The fundamental mission of the Feinstein Institute for Public Service is to provide the students of Providence College with an educational experience within our liberal arts curriculum which prepares them to become builders of human communities and responsible citizens of a democratic society."


The New College of California - Bachelor’s Degree Program in Activism and Social Change
"These BA & MA programs teach critical and relevant social theory, history and analysis of social movements and activist skills taught by a practicing local, national and international activist faculty.  Student do practical, experiential, activist BA or MA theses/projects using  internships with local, national and/or globally-based organizations.  Finally, all graduating students will develop concentrated learning in specific areas which will prepare them for activist careers in areas such as environmental justice, health and medical care, affordable housing and homelessness, union organizing, legal and human rights, peace activism, etc. For information on these programs, interested potential students can contact Helene Vosters MA, Activism and Social Change Faculty at 415.437.3408 or Michael McAvoy  at 415.437.3465 or by email: activism@newcollege.edu"


The New York Union Semester Program
The New York Union Semester is is now accepting applications for its Fall 2006 program. The application deadline is April 15, 2006.

The New York Union Semester is offered through the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies and provides students with the opportunity to intern at a labor union or community organization in New York City while taking Labor Studies courses at the City University of New York for a semester.

The program is open to all-undergraduate majors. In addition to a $1700 scholarship and a weekly $210 stipend, all participants receive 16 undergraduate credits for their work and a Labor Studies Certificate.

Internships include a wide range of activities--from organizing to research, to media and communication. A diverse group of unions and community organizations have hosted interns, including SEIU, HERE, TWU, Community Voices Heard, and Jobs with Justice. New York Union Semester is an excellent career opportunity for students interested in working for social and economic justice. For more information and an application go to www.unionsemester.org , e-mail the Program Coordinator, Amanda Plumb, at unionsemester@qc.edu or 212-827-0200.


National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs - Curricular Programs
A list of Graduate and Undergraduate programs across the country that focus on Leadership Studies.



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