DHS Fall 2025 Projects Link to this section
Semester Theme : Systems and Power Link to this section
Essential Question: How are social systems designed to disempower our communities and what actions can we take to dismantle them?
Act Project Description
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ACT (Acting for Critical Transformations)
People vs. The Pipeline
We will begin disrupting and dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline through activism and reform.
Book: Black Butterflies by Darren Canady
GOAL Project Description
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GOAL (Get Out And Learn)
Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: The Systems and Factors that Influence Personal and Community Health in America
We will focus on how individuals and society can improve our country's healthcare system.
Book: I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erica Sánchez
MADE Project
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MADE (Making, Advertising, and Designing for Empowerment)
Portrait of Justice: Re-Making our Legal System
Students will investigate the U.S. prison industrial complex through the lenses of science, history, and art, with a focus on the disproportionate impact on communities of color.
Book: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
MARS Project
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MARS (Music and Academics Resisting the System)
The Power of Justice: Who is Protected and Served?
We will examine how the U.S. justice system fuctions and impacts people depending on their intersecting identies.
Book: I'd Rather Burn than Bloom by Shannon C.F. Rogers
WALC Project
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WALC (Wilderness Arts and Literacy Collaborative)
Struggling for Sustainability: Preservation, Restoration, and Environmental Justice
As we study the impacts of colonialism and environmental injustice on forests, native ecosystems, and urban environments, we will become environmental activists.
Readings: various articles and stories about Puerto Rico and environmental justice.
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