The Honors Fellows for Social Change is a minor course of study designed for a select group of students in their last two years of undergraduate coursework at National University. The cohort of students was selected through a rigorous application process.
The curriculum entails interdisciplinary seminar work that encompasses the liberal arts so as to challenge each student to formulate a personal vision for social change through reflection, critical thinking, and the application of one's ideas to the so-called real world.
At the center of the Honors Fellows minor is the topic of social change, a concept that can take many different forms. My project focuses on the inequity related to quality behavioral health treatment for those living in poverty, affected by substance use disorder and mental health disorder, and other marginalized populations. I desire to inform and tranform culture and society towards the beneficial goal of a healthcare system that makes quality behavioral health treatment available to everyone.
The Honors Fellows program views social change as an open concept that embraces all the disciplines at National University. The key is that each of us in the inaugural cohort have been given the chance to think about how we can use our education to make the world a better place.