Reclaiming Democracy: dialogue, decision making and community action

Reclaiming Democracy is a highly innovative course bringing together diverse students and faculty  from six educational institutions and the local community: Students from  Elon University, Greensboro College, Guilford College,  the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the Greater Greensboro community are participating.

Framed within Greensboro’s rich history, both of struggles for civil rights and social justice, and its often even more powerful desire for civility, students and faculty will draw on interdisciplinary academic inquiry and the performing and visual arts to study the following broad questions:

How do we reclaim our democracy as a humane, inclusive process that is responsible to the needs of all members of our community?  What does this require of us?

Professors of communication, economics, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies, and a community activist/public intellectual will be the faculty for the course.

In an effort to not only study, but to model democracy, students and faculty will work together to identify pressing contemporary issues, to critically understand them, and to devise strategies to address them. 

We are meeting in downtown Greensboro at the Elon University Law School.