Since 2008, Village Earth has provided its tailored in-person training for student and professional chapters of Engineers Without Borders at colleges and universities across the country including UC Santa Barbara, Colorado State University, Rutgers, Princeton, Hope College, MSU, San Francisco and Portland. We are excited to announce a new online training opportunity for Student and Professional Chapters of Engineers Without Borders. Combining live face-to-face discussions with offline content you can complete on your own schedule, this course makes our powerful community mobilization curriculum accessible to anyone with an internet connection. This course is available to individuals at our regularly scheduled times and to entire chapters upon request. To learn more about this new offering click here. Click here to to download a PDF flyer for this training
Spring II Session
GSLL 1517 – Community-Based Organizing
Taking a practical “hands-on” perspective, this course will explore the theories, tools, styles and challenges of community-based organizing. It will discuss practical strategies for developing community leadership and working with marginalized communities, exploring the ideas and examples from Evo Morales, Paulo Freire, Saul Alinsky, Sub-Comandante Marcos, the Bridge Immigrant Rights experiment and Martin Heidegger.
