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Professor  >  Designing for Social Change


How can we encourage and inspire meaningful social change? How can we design and implement effective programs that address pervasive problems at the local, national, and international levels?

In this course, we attempt to answer these questions by exploring specific steps of the design and implementation process, including: finding inspiration; identification, recruitment, and retention of target audiences; staff selection; setting global and incremental goals; evaluating success, and so on.

We take a human-centered design approach and examine characteristics of youth and community programs in the fields of education, social welfare, human development, health promotion, human rights, and civic engagement.

We critique existing designs and, working in teams, develop our own community-based programs around social issues that we care about.


School of Education & Social Policy
Northwestern University

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  • About
    • Profile
    • CV & Affiliations
    • In the News
    • Contact
  • Writer
    • Train
    • The 19th Window
    • Dead Ends
    • Non-Fiction >
      • A Day In The Life Of...
      • Overlapping Triangles
      • Masks of Holocaust Memory
      • Teaching About T4
      • When A Boxcar Isn't A Boxcar
      • Crying At The Museum
      • Magical Transports & Transformations
      • Ghosts of Auschwitz
      • Something Missing At Treblinka
      • Ava and Miriam
      • Behind 'The 19th Window'
      • When There Are No Words
      • Holocaust Remembrance Delayed
      • Love, War, and Fairy Tale Endings
      • Never Heard
      • The 'R' Word
      • To My Teacher, Mr. Paszek
      • Laughing About Rape
      • Is There A Canopy In Store For Me?
      • Present Past
      • I Was A Doctor In Auschwitz
  • Professor
    • Holocaust Education Design
    • Holocaust Memory, Memorials & Museums
    • Magic, Monsters & The Holocaust
    • Designing for Social Change
  • Public Speaker
    • Available Programs & Services
    • Past Programs
  • Musician
  • Unsilence