Ordinary citizens create change for the public good every day. Critical Youth Advocacy (C-YA) Learning Community is designed to provide students with opportunities to explore and practice work for the public good. Buffalo State undergraduates will participate in community, organizing in a public school setting while examining how urban youth, working through social, identity and personal differences, create solutions to common problems for a more socially just world.

C-YA will benefit students who:

• Want to work with urban youth in grades 5th-12th on relevant issues
• Want to have direct involvement in urban schools through field experiences
• Want to make a difference in the lives of urban youth and their communities

In the C-YA Learning Community Students Will:

• Apply lessons learned in a public school setting
• Gain service-learning (first hand experience) helping youth address a social problem
• Speak to local and national stakeholders and decision makers
• Co-curricular learning experiences will include a trip to Washington, DC with a tour of the White House. Space is limited. Register for Orientation and indicate the C-YA Learning Community as your first preference.

Courses

BSC 101 - Intellectual Foundations
Dr. Jevon Hunter - Elementary Education and Reading

SOC 100 - Introduction to Sociology
Dr. Amitra Wall - Sociology Department

SPF 203 - School and Society
Dr. Kathy Wood - Associate Dean, School of Education

CWP 101 - College Writing I
Professor Lori Woods - College Writing Program