Fall 2025 Daily Schedule – Introduction to Social Justice

Session	Date	Activity/Topic	Assignment due	Gender/Racial Politics Presentation
1	9/11	Introductory activities; Autobiography assignment	Autobiography, Read rent freeze article	no presentations
2	9/15	Housing and gentrification	Syllabus response	no presentations
3	9/18	Field trip to Times Square		no presentations
	9/21	NO CLASS		no presentations
4	9/25	Film: Emergent City	Read and bring in borough-based article	no presentations
5	9/29	Film: Emergent City (continued)
	10/2	NO CLASS		no presentations
6	10/6	Field trip to Sunset Park	Industry City Field Trip Reflection	no presentations
7	10/9	Economic inequality	Read “Cell One” (Adichie)
8	10/14 (tuesday)	Economic inequality	Neighborhood Walking Tour
9	10/16	Survey-making activity	Neighborhood Walking Tour Process Paper
	10/20	NO CLASS		no presentations
10	10/23	Survey analysis	Survey responses
11	10/24 (friday)	Policing and incarceration	Read “The Invention of the Police” article	no presentations
	10/27	NO CLASS		no presentations
12	10/30	Militarism and US empire	Read “Playing Metal Gear Solid V”
13	11/3	“We Are Not Your Soldiers” guest presentation	Survey Analysis Paper	no presentations
14	11/6	Climate/Environment	WANYS reflection; Reading TBA
15	11/10	Climate/Environment
16	11/13	Article exchange activity	Read and bring in an exemplar article from your beat
17	11/17	Education/Schooling	Interview questions
18	11/20	Labor and unions	Read Amazon Labor Union article
19	11/24	Labor and unions
	11/27	NO CLASS		no presentations
20	12/1	Immigration policy	Read “History of Anti-Immigrant Extremism” and “ICE’s Spectacle” articles
21	12/4	Immigration policy	Local Report
22	12/8	Field trip to Tenement Museum		no presentations
23	12/11	Media and journalism	Tenement Museum Reflection
24	12/15	Wrap-up and conferencing		no presentations

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