SL2035  CHRISTIAN SOCIAL ADVOCACY: PROPHETIC COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC COLLABORATION (A.Y. 2024/2025)

• Accademic Unit

  Faculty of Social Sciences

• Course

  Licentiate in Leadership and Management

Objectives: Christian Social Advocacy is a response to Pope Francis’ call for a type of communication that is ‘ gentle and at the same time prophetic’. This discerning and prophetic stance understands that those who are missioned to spread the Gospel, especially with its necessary social implications ( Fratelli Tutti, 86), must reach out to the people in the margins, take seriously their stories, their dramas, and their hopes, and amplify their voices in our public engagement at multiple levels---local, regional and global---‘ even if doing so means going against the tide’ (57th World Communications Day, 24 January 2023).

Learning Outcomes: Students are not limited to notional learning, but are accompanied in a path of acquiring appropriate skills.
Content: This course includes principles (Framework) and practices (Groundwork) in communicating the Church Social Teaching in the power-laden multisectoral world of the public sphere. (1) Framework: Explores modules on social discernment, issue mainstreaming, mindset shifting and evidence-based research utilization relevant to the promotion of Church Social Teaching and Praxis, with special focus on peace and justice, human rights, indigenous peoples’ rights, women empowerment, labor, and ecology. (2) Groundwork: Expands our repertoire of competencies--including lobbying, campaigning, rights claiming, protesting, negotiating, advocacy planning, and networking, related to the demands of the students’ present and prospective social and pastoral ministries.

Methodology: The professor’s input on shall be enhanced by the students’ sharing of previous experiences and current reflections. Students shall engage in small-group presentation based on study of a local or online campaign. Each student shall craft a plan for a social advocacy project.

Means of Evaluation: Group participation and collaborative project performance shall be given high value. Individual Social Advocacy Plan, submitted both in print and digital formats, forms half of final grade.

• Information
• Teachers
• Lesson schedule/Room
• Bibliography

Information

• Semestre: 1° Semestre
• ECTS: 4

Teachers

Albert E. ALEJO

Lesson schedule/Room

Semester	Day	From	To	Room	Floor	Building	Notes
1° Semestre	Lunedì	15.00	15.45	TBD	0
1° Semestre	Lunedì	16.00	16.45	TBD	0

Bibliography

• AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Amnesty international campaigning manual. London: Amnesty International Publications, 2nd edition, 2001; BUCKLEY, S. Advocacy strategies and approaches: Overview. Association for Progressive Communication. 2018/2024; FRAMEWORKS INSTITUTE. Mindset shifts: What are they? Why do they matter? How do they happen? (A FrameWorks Strategic Report) Washington, DC: FrameWorks Institute, 2020; FRANCISCANS INTERNATIONAL. Making human rights work for people living in extreme poverty: A handbook for implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights. ATD Fourth World and Franciscans International, 2015; GALLAGHER, N. and MYERS, L. (Eds). Tools for grassroots activists: Best practices in the environmental movement. California: Patagonia, Inc. 2016; HOEFER, R. Advocacy practice for social justice. Oxford University Press, 2019.