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The School for Social Change prepares change agents—compassionate professionals and activist scholars—to use their professions and their lives to transform urban communities around the world. The School provides students with a context for learning that is urban, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, research-focused, faith-based, and steeped in field experience.
We strive to combine faith, reason and justice in all we do, with a vision of preparing students to be agents of social transformation. This vision, combined with the recognition that the city is where the world meets, led to the development of the School for Social Change.
Eastern University's School for Social Change, founded by author, sociologist, renown preacher and beloved professor emeritus Dr. Tony Campolo, is now admitting students to its new Master of Arts in Urban Studies with concentrations in Arts in Transformation, Community Development and Youth Leadership.
Arts in Transformation prepares students with artistic gifts and callings to become active leaders and change agents engaged in positive
socio-economic urban transformation. Develops professionals who seek artistic excellence while serving others through the transforming power of the arts.
Community Development builds the skills needed by activists, organizers, planners and developers to cultivate resources for
holistic community transformation through a variety of physical, social and spiritual means.
Youth Leadership addresses the needs of leaders in urban youth ministry and youth development who are committed to the task of transforming urban communities. It prepares students to be effective in both secular and faith-based environments involving social work, counseling, sociology, practical theology, missions and youth ministry.
We are excited about what's happening at the School for Social Change. Visit our site to find out more, or e-mail us at change@eastern.edu.
FAVORITE BOOKS:
Taking It to the Streets: Using the Arts to Transform Your Community
Corbitt, J. Nathan, Nix-Early, Vivian
Publisher: Baker Books
Revolution and Renewal
Campolo, Tony
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
And You Call Yourself a Christian: Toward Responsible Charity
By Robert D. Lupton
Published by CCDA
City Reaching
Dennison, Jack
Publisher: W. Carey Library (October 1, 1999)
Empowering the Poor
Linthicum, Dr. Robert
Publisher: World Vision Resources
Transforming Power
Linthicum, Dr. Robert
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Mustard Seed Vs. McWorld: Reinventing Life and Faith for the Future
Sine, Tom, Zacharias, Ravi K.
Publisher: Baker Books
Church Enslaved: A Spirituality of Racial Reconciliation
Campolo, Tony, Battle, Michael
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
The Heart of Whiteness
Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privelege
Robert Jensen
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
The Hidden Cost of Being African American:
How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality
Shapiro, Thomas M.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Bulls, Bears & Golden Calves: Applying Christian Ethics in Economics
Stapleford, John E.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
When Work Disappears
Wilson, William Julius
Publisher: Vintage
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger
Sider, Ronald J.
Publisher: W Publishing Group
Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith
Jacobsen, Eric O., Peterson, Eugene J.
Publisher: Brazos Press
Urban Ministry
Conn, Harvie M.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Churches that Make a Difference
Ronald J. Sider, Philip N. Olson, Heidi Rolland Unruh
Publisher: Baker Books (March 2002)
The Meaning of the City
Ellul, Jacques, Wilkinson, John, Pardee, Dennis
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group
Magical Urbanism
Davis, Mike
Publisher: Verso Books
Discovering Your City: Bringing Light to the Task of Community Transformation
Waymire, Bob
Publisher: Light Intl
The Hip-Hop Church: Connecting with the Movement Shaping Our Culture
Smith, Efrem, Jackson, Phil, Kitwana, Bakari
Publisher: IVP Books
Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture
Kitwana, Bakari
Publisher: Basic Civitas Books
Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas
Publisher: University of California Press
Generations Lost: Pop Culture and Youth in Crisis
Quinnan, Timothy W
Publisher: Writers Club Press
Stealing Innocence: Corporate Culture's War on Children
Giroux, Henry
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (May 4, 2001)
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America
Kotlowitz, Alex
Publisher: Anchor; Reissue edition
