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Different groups within society are afforded varied levels of power and capacity. This is sometimes due to socioeconomic circumstances or can be tied into to identity politics. The ability to become a strategic advocate, enabling groups and individuals to have an equal voice regarding matter that affect them is a valuable and much desired skill set. A variety of roles require this capacity including advocate, policy developer, leadership or mentorship.

Through a range of discipline approaches, this course will examine the process of building agency and enable you to practice the skills, knowledge and attributes to effectively support others to act and contribute to their lived environments.

Your learning in this course allows you to develop specific program capabilities - the ability to critically evaluate multiple sources of evidence, develop your own individual viewpoint, and apply relevant theories to researching, planning, and achieving effective solutions to complex problems.

On completion of this course students should be able to:

1. identify our position and privileges and how we are able to influence cultural conversations and debates;
2. assess how self and others’ agency and power structures are constructed intersectionally within a specific context;
3. investigate the processes of building agency to advocate and support individuals and groups to act and contribute to their lived environments;
4. collaborate to plan, research, and develop an intervention that would empower individuals and groups to strengthen voice and increase agency.