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  • Portraits in Multimedia:

    A Social Engagement Project in African and African American Studies

  • Harvard African Language Program's Africa's Sources of Knowledge Digital Library

    Ph.D. candidate Lowell Brower's socially-engaged ethnographic research explores East and Central African communal storytelling

  • AAAS 109: Using Film for Social Change

    With a focus on race, gender, and identity, this course will explore the portrayal of the human condition across cultures

  • Filmmaking in Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Social Engagement Alumni Cherie Rivers-Ndaliko (PhD'12) working with filmmaker Petna Ndaliko in the Democratic Republic of Congo

  • Social Engagement Thesis

    Summer Matters: MotorCity Urban Summer Enrichment, Iman Taylor 2012

About Social Engagement

Social Engagement is first and foremost a method of learning that foregrounds empirical, practical elements of real world issues that are of scholarly interest to our faculty and students. What is Social Engagement?

Social Engagement Interview with 2012 Alumni Carla Martin and Naseemah Mohamed

Classes Designated as Social Engagement

Classes designated Social Engagement and independent tutorials taken as such reveal how and why academic findings, theories, and even technological or medical discoveries are challenged and even refuted by the lived experiences and cultural proscriptions of communities different from the larger American mainstream. View Social Engagement courses. 

Social Engagement Thesis

The Social Engagement thesis encourages students to think “outside the box” and incorporate academic work with social entrepreneurship. The thesis requires three parts: academic essay; visual documentary; and policy recommendations. Learn more about writing a thesis in Social Engagement.

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