This course is part of WI's "Connecting for Change: A Learning Series," designed with youth and young adults in mind.

Course participants engage in weekly 90-minute Zoom sessions and interact through forum posts and other activities on our online learning platform. Additionally, all participants complete a community project, applying their learning to a local context of their choice. Learners should expect to dedicate approximately five hours per week to the course. Topics are thoughtfully selected to address pressing social issues in the United States.

This course explores the history, theory, and practice of social change in dialogue with a coherent conceptual framework for action, spiritual principles, and the relevant experience of the Bahá’í community. Students will explore key concepts like the twofold moral purpose, harmony between science and religion, and consultation as an antidote to adversarialism to overcome the dichotomous thinking that pits ideas, people, and groups as adversaries. This course will highlight the roles and strategies of change makers who embody coherence in social justice movements. Students will gain insights into and experience contributing to public discourse about social change through collaboration with local social change initiatives.