The following workshops will complement the content of grade 11 and 12 Equity Studies. Please consider the following workshops if you are teaching any of these courses:

• Gender Studies (HSG 3M)
• Equity, Diversity, and Social Justice (HSE 3E)
• Equity and Social Justice: From Theory to Practice (HSE 4M)

Discussing power and resistance 

What is power? What role do coercion, resistance, and agency play in power? What disrupts it and how can its workings be challenged? In this workshop, you will be invited to reflect on these questions and learn ways academics within the human and social sciences have thought about them before. To ground our collective inquiry, we will look at the struggles of individuals and groups with the state, in particular around issues of citizenship and migration, focusing on what those struggles can tell us about power relations.

Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Explore a variety of topics related to the analysis of social change and social justice and identify key concepts through discussion and brainstorming.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the major theories in human and social sciences, outlining and comparing their key ideas and analyzing their relevance to international politics, including by discussing the ideas of various political theorists. 
• Analyze the dynamics of power relations and privilege as well as various factors that contribute to power or marginalization.
• Explore the effects of various factors on the power of states.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how various social structures and conditions support or limit global inequalities.
• Analyze historical and contemporary social justice issues and evaluate the contributions of individuals and groups and/or movements identified with specific aspects of the struggle for equity and social justice.
• Use the political inquiry process and the concepts of political thinking when investigating issues of national and international political importance in various communities and ways to address them.

Transferable skills
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Collaboration
Communication
Global Citizenship and Sustainability
 

How automated is the human brain? Mental shortcuts on perception and judgment. 

How much information does your brain filter before making a decision or judgment? In this workshop, we’ll explore what automatic thinking is, and consider how it may affect our daily lives. More specifically, we’ll consider how automatic thinking affects our perception with examples pulled from 2SLGBTQIA+ representation. With a balance of theories and interactive activities, this workshop aims to foster critical thinking to avoid biases when faced with decision-making. Skills learnt in this workshop are applicable to a range of societal issues including but not limited to inclusivity, minority groups and identity.  

Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Representations of Gender.
• Analyse the impact on individuals (e.g., with reference to their self-concept, aspirations, notions
• of appropriate behaviour, relationships, sense of belonging or alienation) of stereotypical representations of gender in media and popular culture. 
• Explaining Human Mental Processes and Behaviour.
• Describe, from a psychological perspective, how various factors (e.g., heredity, environment, personality, identity, developmental stage, level of attachment) influence and shape an individual’s psychological development.
• Describe, from a psychological perspective, ways in which context and the influence of other individuals can affect people’s emotional and behavioural responses.
• Describe how diverse psychological factors (e.g., motivation, perception, attitudes, mental health, temperament) influence individual behaviour. 

Transferable Skills
Critical Thinking
Global Citizenship and Sustainability
Digital Literacy  

Gender Representation in Social Media   

How is gender represented in the media?  Do you think gender stereotypes have changed a lot in 2022? Do you notice them? The interactive activities in this workshop will help you challenge social media content you consume and push you to think about how your interactions with social media can feed the cycle of gender stereotypes. Using real-life examples, we will dissect the gender stereotypes that are present in social media, how they are reinforced by our daily activities on these platforms, the impacts on society and strategies to overcome challenges they pose.   

Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Help understand the social construction of identity. 
• Explain the mechanisms by which identity is socially constructed and internalized with social media, as well as the impact of stereotypes and social norms on individuals as well as evaluate the effects of these representations. 
• Analyzes sexism and power dynamics in relation to sex and gender in various media contexts. 
• Media and popular culture are in scope: assess the impact of media and popular culture on issues related to equity and social justice. 

Transferable Skills
Critical Thinking 
Problem Solving  
Digital Literacy  
 

Thinking Crime in Criminology 

Do you spend entire evenings sitting on your couch watching everything there is about crime from movies to shows, podcasts to documentaries, but still have a lot of questions? You may be wondering how to define a crime or even a criminal? This workshop will be useful. Together, we will dive deep into crime using a historical overview of this notion, push your thinking to the limit with numerous examples that demonstrate its ambiguity, and perhaps even make you explore a new way of thinking about the subject. Throughout this workshop, sensitive subjects may be addressed to observe the constant evolution of the social context in which the notion of crime is found.  

Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Approaches and Perspectives: demonstrate an understanding of a range of perspectives on and approaches to equity and social justice issues, and of factors that affect inequity and social injustice. 
• Explain how individual and systemic factors can cause or perpetuate inequity and social injustice. 
• Analyse ways in which social and cultural belief systems can affect perspectives on and decisions relating to equity and social justice issues. 
• Analyse how legislation, the courts, and public policy approach equity and social justice issues, and how they can affect people’s perceptions of these issues.  
• Power Relations: analyse, in historical and contemporary contexts, the dynamics of power relations and privilege as well as various factors that contribute to power or marginalization. 
• Analyse the dynamics of power relations and privilege in various social settings, both historical and contemporary. 
• Analyse the effects of bias, stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination, and oppression on individuals and groups. 
• Historical and Contemporary Issues: analyse a range of historical and contemporary equity and social justice issues and the impact of economic and environmental factors on these issues. 
• Analyse the rationale for specific instances of social injustice in Canadian history and demonstrate an understanding of how perspectives on the issues related to these historical injustices have changed. 
• Analyse a broad range of current equity and social justice issues in Canada with reference to the underlying social circumstances and potential strategies for addressing the issues. 

Transferable skills  
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving 
Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Communication
Collaboration 
Global Citizenship and Sustainability 

Are Social Movements Influencing Change?  

Society can now, more easily than ever before, share opinions on how well the government is handling issues from health care to climate change and everything in between. So how do those opinions become actions? How does that action impact Canada’s democratic process for making changes?  This workshop asks the question: are social movements leading the way to a better future, or imposing the beliefs of the few onto the many? Throughout this workshop you will get the chance to work through concepts of equality, political change, and democracy, and think critically about recent examples in the news that exemplify the debate at hand.   
 
Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Explore topics that relate to Equity and Social Justice, and evaluate the ways in which society has evolved to combat these issues.   
• Analyse how various factors can contribute to, and present a barrier to, their own and others’ political behaviour.  
• Communicate and reflect in a group setting to display understanding of materials.  
• Describe ways in which one’s personal choices or behaviour can help empower. individuals. And reduce the impact of inequity or social injustice.  

Transferable skills
Critical Thinking  
Collaboration    
Communication  
Global Citizenship and Sustainability  

The following workshops will complement the content of grade 11 and 12 Family Studies. Please consider the following workshops if you are teaching any of these courses:

• Dynamics of Human Relationships (HHD 3O)
• Families in Canada (HHS 4U)
• Families in Canada (HHS 4C)
• Human Development throughout the Lifespan (HHG 4M)
• Personal Life Management (HIP 4O)
• Working with Infants and Young Children (HPW 3C)
• Raising Healthy Children (HPC 3O)
• Working with School-Age Children and Adolescents (HPD 4C)

The following workshops will complement the content of grade 11 and 12 General Social Sciences. Please consider the following workshops if you are teaching any of these courses:

• Introduction to Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology (HSP 3C)
• Introduction to Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology (HPS 3U)
• Challenge and Change in Society (HSB 4U)

Discussing power and resistance 

What is power? What role do coercion, resistance, and agency play in power? What disrupts it and how can its workings be challenged? In this workshop, you will be invited to reflect on these questions and learn ways academics within the human and social sciences have thought about them before. To ground our collective inquiry, we will look at the struggles of individuals and groups with the state, in particular around issues of citizenship and migration, focusing on what those struggles can tell us about power relations.

Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Explore a variety of topics related to the analysis of social change and social justice and identify key concepts through discussion and brainstorming.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the major theories in human and social sciences, outlining and comparing their key ideas and analyzing their relevance to international politics, including by discussing the ideas of various political theorists. 
• Analyze the dynamics of power relations and privilege as well as various factors that contribute to power or marginalization.
• Explore the effects of various factors on the power of states.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how various social structures and conditions support or limit global inequalities.
• Analyze historical and contemporary social justice issues and evaluate the contributions of individuals and groups and/or movements identified with specific aspects of the struggle for equity and social justice.
• Use the political inquiry process and the concepts of political thinking when investigating issues of national and international political importance in various communities and ways to address them.

Transferable skills
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Collaboration
Communication
Global Citizenship and Sustainability

Thinking Crime in Criminology 

Do you spend entire evenings sitting on your couch watching everything there is about crime from movies to shows, podcasts to documentaries, but still have a lot of questions? You may be wondering how to define a crime or even a criminal? This workshop will be useful. Together, we will dive deep into crime using a historical overview of this notion, push your thinking to the limit with numerous examples that demonstrate its ambiguity, and perhaps even make you explore a new way of thinking about the subject. Throughout this workshop, sensitive subjects may be addressed to observe the constant evolution of the social context in which the notion of crime is found.  

Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Approaches and Perspectives: demonstrate an understanding of a range of perspectives on and approaches to equity and social justice issues, and of factors that affect inequity and social injustice. 
• Explain how individual and systemic factors can cause or perpetuate inequity and social injustice. 
• Analyse ways in which social and cultural belief systems can affect perspectives on and decisions relating to equity and social justice issues. 
• Analyse how legislation, the courts, and public policy approach equity and social justice issues, and how they can affect people’s perceptions of these issues.  
• Power Relations: analyse, in historical and contemporary contexts, the dynamics of power relations and privilege as well as various factors that contribute to power or marginalization. 
• Analyse the dynamics of power relations and privilege in various social settings, both historical and contemporary. 
• Analyse the effects of bias, stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination, and oppression on individuals and groups. 
• Historical and Contemporary Issues: analyse a range of historical and contemporary equity and social justice issues and the impact of economic and environmental factors on these issues. 
• Analyse the rationale for specific instances of social injustice in Canadian history and demonstrate an understanding of how perspectives on the issues related to these historical injustices have changed. 
• Analyse a broad range of current equity and social justice issues in Canada with reference to the underlying social circumstances and potential strategies for addressing the issues. 

Transferable skills  
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving 
Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Communication
Collaboration 
Global Citizenship and Sustainability 

Social and Economic Impacts of Data Misrepresentation 

Increasingly we are getting our information from many sources. Trying to interpret the numbers presented in media can be tricky. They can – accidentally or deliberately – become misleading or over simplified. Misunderstanding how data is presented can have many social and economic implications. This workshop will explain how data visualizations and statistics make information easier to understand and more accessible to people without expertise in that topic to avoid the potential for misinformation. We will discuss ways to strike a good balance between making information accessible without making it too simple to help us understand important issues affecting our lives.  

Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Exploring: explore topics related to equity and social justice and formulate questions to guide their research. 
• Media and Popular Culture: assess the impact of media and popular culture on equity and social justice issues.  
• Policies, Strategies, and Initiatives: compare policies, strategies, and initiatives used by various groups, including indigenous peoples and women, to address equity and social justice issues in a variety of jurisdictions.  
• Promoting Equity and Social Justice: demonstrate an understanding of how personal values, knowledge, and actions can contribute to equity and social justice, and assess strategies that people use to address equity and social justice concerns. 

Transferable skills
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving  
Communication  
Self-Directed Learning  
Digital Literacy 
 

How automated is the human brain? Mental shortcuts on perception and judgment.

How much information does your brain filter before making a decision or judgment? In this workshop, we’ll explore what automatic thinking is, and consider how it may affect our daily lives. More specifically, we’ll consider how automatic thinking affects our perception with examples pulled from 2SLGBTQIA+ representation. With a balance of theories and interactive activities, this workshop aims to foster critical thinking to avoid biases when faced with decision-making. Skills learnt in this workshop are applicable to a range of societal issues including but not limited to inclusivity, minority groups and identity.  

Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Representations of Gender.
• Analyse the impact on individuals (e.g., with reference to their self-concept, aspirations, notions
• of appropriate behaviour, relationships, sense of belonging or alienation) of stereotypical representations of gender in media and popular culture. 
• Explaining Human Mental Processes and Behaviour.
• Describe, from a psychological perspective, how various factors (e.g., heredity, environment, personality, identity, developmental stage, level of attachment) influence and shape an individual’s psychological development.
• Describe, from a psychological perspective, ways in which context and the influence of other individuals can affect people’s emotional and behavioural responses.
• Describe how diverse psychological factors (e.g., motivation, perception, attitudes, mental health, temperament) influence individual behaviour. 

Transferable Skills
Critical Thinking
Global Citizenship and Sustainability
Digital Literacy  

Are Social Movements Influencing Change?  

Society can now, more easily than ever before, share opinions on how well the government is handling issues from health care to climate change and everything in between. So how do those opinions become actions? How does that action impact Canada’s democratic process for making changes?  This workshop asks the question: are social movements leading the way to a better future, or imposing the beliefs of the few onto the many? Throughout this workshop you will get the chance to work through concepts of equality, political change, and democracy, and think critically about recent examples in the news that exemplify the debate at hand.   
 
Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Explore topics that relate to Equity and Social Justice, and evaluate the ways in which society has evolved to combat these issues.   
• Analyse how various factors can contribute to, and present a barrier to, their own and others’ political behaviour.  
• Communicate and reflect in a group setting to display understanding of materials.  
• Describe ways in which one’s personal choices or behaviour can help empower. individuals. And reduce the impact of inequity or social injustice.  

Transferable skills
Critical Thinking  
Collaboration    
Communication  
Global Citizenship and Sustainability  

The following workshops will complement the content of grade 11 and 12 Interdisciplinary Studies. Please consider the following workshops if you are teaching any of these courses:

• Interdisciplinary Studies (IDC30/IDP30/IDC40/IDP40) 

Social and Economic Impacts of Data Misrepresentation 

Increasingly we are getting our information from many sources. Trying to interpret the numbers presented in media can be tricky. They can – accidentally or deliberately – become misleading or over simplified. Misunderstanding how data is presented can have many social and economic implications. This workshop will explain how data visualizations and statistics make information easier to understand and more accessible to people without expertise in that topic to avoid the potential for misinformation. We will discuss ways to strike a good balance between making information accessible without making it too simple to help us understand important issues affecting our lives.  

Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Exploring: explore topics related to equity and social justice and formulate questions to guide their research. 
• Media and Popular Culture: assess the impact of media and popular culture on equity and social justice issues.  
• Policies, Strategies, and Initiatives: compare policies, strategies, and initiatives used by various groups, including indigenous peoples and women, to address equity and social justice issues in a variety of jurisdictions.  
• Promoting Equity and Social Justice: demonstrate an understanding of how personal values, knowledge, and actions can contribute to equity and social justice, and assess strategies that people use to address equity and social justice concerns. 

Transferable skills
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving  
Communication  
Self-Directed Learning  
Digital Literacy 
 

How automated is the human brain? Mental shortcuts on perception and judgment. 

How much information does your brain filter before making a decision or judgment? In this workshop, we’ll explore what automatic thinking is, and consider how it may affect our daily lives. More specifically, we’ll consider how automatic thinking affects our perception with examples pulled from 2SLGBTQIA+ representation. With a balance of theories and interactive activities, this workshop aims to foster critical thinking to avoid biases when faced with decision-making. Skills learnt in this workshop are applicable to a range of societal issues including but not limited to inclusivity, minority groups and identity.  

Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Representations of Gender.
• Analyse the impact on individuals (e.g., with reference to their self-concept, aspirations, notions.
• of appropriate behaviour, relationships, sense of belonging or alienation) of stereotypical representations of gender in media and popular culture. 
• Explaining Human Mental Processes and Behaviour.
• Describe, from a psychological perspective, how various factors (e.g., heredity, environment, personality, identity, developmental stage, level of attachment) influence and shape an individual’s psychological development.
• Describe, from a psychological perspective, ways in which context and the influence of other individuals can affect people’s emotional and behavioural responses.
• Describe how diverse psychological factors (e.g., motivation, perception, attitudes, mental health, temperament) influence individual behaviour. 

Transferable Skills
Critical Thinking  
Global Citizenship and Sustainability  
Digital Literacy  

Gender Representation in Social Media   

How is gender represented in the media?  Do you think gender stereotypes have changed a lot in 2022? Do you notice them? The interactive activities in this workshop will help you challenge social media content you consume and push you to think about how your interactions with social media can feed the cycle of gender stereotypes. Using real-life examples, we will dissect the gender stereotypes that are present in social media, how they are reinforced by our daily activities on these platforms, the impacts on society and strategies to overcome challenges they pose.   

Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Help understand the social construction of identity. 
• Explain the mechanisms by which identity is socially constructed and internalized with social media, as well as the impact of stereotypes and social norms on individuals as well as evaluate the effects of these representations. 
• Analyzes sexism and power dynamics in relation to sex and gender in various media contexts. 
• Media and popular culture are in scope: assess the impact of media and popular culture on issues related to equity and social justice. 

Transferable Skills
Critical Thinking 
Problem Solving  
Digital Literacy  

The following workshops will complement the content of grade 11 and 12 Canadian and World Studies. Please consider the following workshops if you are teaching any of these courses:

• Politics (Civics) 

  • Politics in action: Making Change (CPC30) 
  • Canadian and International Politics (CPW4U) 

• Economics  

  • The Individual and the Economy (CIE3M) 
  • Making Personal Economic choices (CIC4E) 

• Law 

  • Legal Studies (CLN4C) 
  • Understanding Canadian Law in Everyday Life (CLU3E) 
  • Understanding Canadian Law (CLU3M) 

Discussing power and resistance 

What is power? What role do coercion, resistance, and agency play in power? What disrupts it and how can its workings be challenged? In this workshop, you will be invited to reflect on these questions and learn ways academics within the human and social sciences have thought about them before. To ground our collective inquiry, we will look at the struggles of individuals and groups with the state, in particular around issues of citizenship and migration, focusing on what those struggles can tell us about power relations.

Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Explore a variety of topics related to the analysis of social change and social justice and identify key concepts through discussion and brainstorming.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the major theories in human and social sciences, outlining and comparing their key ideas and analyzing their relevance to international politics, including by discussing the ideas of various political theorists. 
• Analyze the dynamics of power relations and privilege as well as various factors that contribute to power or marginalization.
• Explore the effects of various factors on the power of states.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how various social structures and conditions support or limit global inequalities.
• Analyze historical and contemporary social justice issues and evaluate the contributions of individuals and groups and/or movements identified with specific aspects of the struggle for equity and social justice.
• Use the political inquiry process and the concepts of political thinking when investigating issues of national and international political importance in various communities and ways to address them.

Transferable skills
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Collaboration
Communication
Global Citizenship and Sustainability

Are Social Movements Influencing Change?  

Society can now, more easily than ever before, share opinions on how well the government is handling issues from health care to climate change and everything in between. So how do those opinions become actions? How does that action impact Canada’s democratic process for making changes?  This workshop asks the question: are social movements leading the way to a better future, or imposing the beliefs of the few onto the many? Throughout this workshop you will get the chance to work through concepts of equality, political change, and democracy, and think critically about recent examples in the news that exemplify the debate at hand.   
 
Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Explore topics that relate to Equity and Social Justice, and evaluate the ways in which society has evolved to combat these issues.   
• Analyse how various factors can contribute to, and present a barrier to, their own and others’ political behaviour.  
• Communicate and reflect in a group setting to display understanding of materials.  
• Describe ways in which one’s personal choices or behaviour can help empower. individuals. And reduce the impact of inequity or social injustice.  

Transferable skills
Critical Thinking  
Collaboration    
Communication  
Global Citizenship and Sustainability  

Social and Economic Impacts of Data Misrepresentation 

Increasingly we are getting our information from many sources. Trying to interpret the numbers presented in media can be tricky. They can – accidentally or deliberately – become misleading or over simplified. Misunderstanding how data is presented can have many social and economic implications. This workshop will explain how data visualizations and statistics make information easier to understand and more accessible to people without expertise in that topic to avoid the potential for misinformation. We will discuss ways to strike a good balance between making information accessible without making it too simple to help us understand important issues affecting our lives.  

Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Exploring: explore topics related to equity and social justice and formulate questions to guide their research. 
• Media and Popular Culture: assess the impact of media and popular culture on equity and social justice issues.  
• Policies, Strategies, and Initiatives: compare policies, strategies, and initiatives used by various groups, including indigenous peoples and women, to address equity and social justice issues in a variety of jurisdictions.  
• Promoting Equity and Social Justice: demonstrate an understanding of how personal values, knowledge, and actions can contribute to equity and social justice, and assess strategies that people use to address equity and social justice concerns. 

Transferable skills
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving  
Communication 
Self-Directed Learning
Digital Literacy 

Thinking Crime in Criminology 

Do you spend entire evenings sitting on your couch watching everything there is about crime from movies to shows, podcasts to documentaries, but still have a lot of questions? You may be wondering how to define a crime or even a criminal? This workshop will be useful. Together, we will dive deep into crime using a historical overview of this notion, push your thinking to the limit with numerous examples that demonstrate its ambiguity, and perhaps even make you explore a new way of thinking about the subject. Throughout this workshop, sensitive subjects may be addressed to observe the constant evolution of the social context in which the notion of crime is found.  

Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Approaches and Perspectives: demonstrate an understanding of a range of perspectives on and approaches to equity and social justice issues, and of factors that affect inequity and social injustice. 
• Explain how individual and systemic factors can cause or perpetuate inequity and social injustice. 
• Analyse ways in which social and cultural belief systems can affect perspectives on and decisions relating to equity and social justice issues. 
• Analyse how legislation, the courts, and public policy approach equity and social justice issues, and how they can affect people’s perceptions of these issues.  
• Power Relations: analyse, in historical and contemporary contexts, the dynamics of power relations and privilege as well as various factors that contribute to power or marginalization. 
• Analyse the dynamics of power relations and privilege in various social settings, both historical and contemporary. 
• Analyse the effects of bias, stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination, and oppression on individuals and groups. 
• Historical and Contemporary Issues: analyse a range of historical and contemporary equity and social justice issues and the impact of economic and environmental factors on these issues. 
• Analyse the rationale for specific instances of social injustice in Canadian history and demonstrate an understanding of how perspectives on the issues related to these historical injustices have changed. 
• Analyse a broad range of current equity and social justice issues in Canada with reference to the underlying social circumstances and potential strategies for addressing the issues. 

Transferable skills  
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving 
Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Communication
Collaboration 
Global Citizenship and Sustainability 

The following workshops will complement the content of grade 11 and 12 English - Media Studies. Please consider the following workshops if you are teaching any of these courses:

• Media Studies (EMS30) 

Gender Representation in Social Media   

How is gender represented in the media?  Do you think gender stereotypes have changed a lot in 2022? Do you notice them? The interactive activities in this workshop will help you challenge social media content you consume and push you to think about how your interactions with social media can feed the cycle of gender stereotypes. Using real-life examples, we will dissect the gender stereotypes that are present in social media, how they are reinforced by our daily activities on these platforms, the impacts on society and strategies to overcome challenges they pose.   

Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Help understand the social construction of identity. 
• Explain the mechanisms by which identity is socially constructed and internalized with social media, as well as the impact of stereotypes and social norms on individuals as well as evaluate the effects of these representations. 
• Analyzes sexism and power dynamics in relation to sex and gender in various media contexts. 
• Media and popular culture are in scope: assess the impact of media and popular culture on issues related to equity and social justice. 

Transferable Skills
Critical Thinking 
Problem Solving  
Digital Literacy  

Social and Economic Impacts of Data Misrepresentation 

Increasingly we are getting our information from many sources. Trying to interpret the numbers presented in media can be tricky. They can – accidentally or deliberately – become misleading or over simplified. Misunderstanding how data is presented can have many social and economic implications. This workshop will explain how data visualizations and statistics make information easier to understand and more accessible to people without expertise in that topic to avoid the potential for misinformation. We will discuss ways to strike a good balance between making information accessible without making it too simple to help us understand important issues affecting our lives.  

Curriculum Learning Objectives

• Exploring: explore topics related to equity and social justice and formulate questions to guide their research. 
• Media and Popular Culture: assess the impact of media and popular culture on equity and social justice issues.  
• Policies, Strategies, and Initiatives: compare policies, strategies, and initiatives used by various groups, including indigenous peoples and women, to address equity and social justice issues in a variety of jurisdictions.  
• Promoting Equity and Social Justice: demonstrate an understanding of how personal values, knowledge, and actions can contribute to equity and social justice, and assess strategies that people use to address equity and social justice concerns. 

Transferable skills
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving  
Communication 
Self-Directed Learning
Digital Literacy