Dream Project students meets twice a week — once as an entire class as part of the UW course and once with their smaller group at their assigned high school to work with the students.
The UW Classroom
Students in the course will focus their readings and discussions social justice and empowerment and the relationship between the two. The second area will concentrate on questions related to civil society. Discussions will examine questions of poverty and inequality, class disparities, social dimensions (race, ethnicity, class, gender, immigration status, disability, age, sexual orientation and family structure), the role of historical oppression, individual versus structural explanations for poverty, and solution-focused and strengths-based perspectives for upward mobility. The academic theoretical approach of the class will focus on the relationship between educational opportunity and social mobility and the relationship between volunteerism and civic engagement. The Dream Project marries the understanding that one has of educational opportunity and social mobility to the experiential learning that one receives from their work in the high schools.
University course credit
Since the Dream Project is a UW course as well as an outreach program, participating students can receive up to two credits per quarter. *
At the high school
Each week, Dream Project students will meet with the high school students to work on that week’s focus area. Depending on the school, these meetings may occur multiple times during the week. The goal is to provide as much access as the students need. In general, the yearly schedule is as follows:
| Quarter | Activities |
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| Spring of Junior Year of High School |
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| Summer |
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| Fall of Senior Year |
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| Winter/Spring of Senior Year |
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