Did you miss the 2021 Open House event, or would like to revisit one of the sessions? Please find the recordings of the virtual event below. If you have any questions about admissions or would like to meet with any of the students, faculty, staff, or alumni who participated in the Open House, please email krocadmissions@sandiego.edu.
Welcome & Peacebuilder Mythbuster Game
Kroc School Alumni Fireside Chat
Peek Into the Classroom (2 sessions)
- Community Advocacy, Organization, and Development
2. War, Gender and Peacebuilding
Closing Comments and Next Steps
Open House Agenda:
| 10:00 AM | Welcome! The Kroc School is excited to share a bit of our culture, coursework, and career outcomes with you during our open house. |
| Debunking Peace Building Kroc Ambassadors will kick-off the day with a fun session on the reality of modern peacebuilding, the careers that are available, and what it means to be a changemaker. |
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| 10:15 AM | Alumni Fireside Chat Alumni will reflect on how their education at the Kroc School propelled them to the career journey they are now on. Questions such as: is grad school with the investment? And how can this program prepare me to serve my community? Plus more will be addressed. Featured Kroc School Alumni: Lisa Thomas, MS Conflict Management and Resolution Brooke Scott, MA Peace and Justice Marjon Saulon, MA Social Innovation |
| 10:45 AM | Peek into the Classroom Prospective Kroc School applicants are invited to choose between two classroom experiences: Community Advocacy, Organization, and Development -or- War, Gender and Peacebuilding. |
| Classroom Experience Descriptions: Community Advocacy, Organization, and Development Presented by Dr. Lan Nguyễn Communities are groups of people with shared norms, religion, values, or identity. They may or may not share the same geographical place. In general, community development is the process of discovering and activating individual capacities and assets, organizing them to build power and resources, and connecting them with larger institutions to devise solutions for community identified problems. Community development includes a wide range of issues that include housing, education, employment, business development, health, recreation, transportation, and other related issues. This course will focus on how organizers, advocates, and practitioners can help mobilize people and influence policy decisions to enhance community well-being. Using the City of San Diego, California as a case study, this course will provide an overview of historical and contemporary urban policies and systems that shape the urban spaces and the people that live, work, and play in them. War, Gender and Peacebuilding Presented by Dr. Necla Tschirgi This course explores the peacebuilding roles that women play in conflict zones around the world. Like traditional courses, it will include an introduction to gender and peacebuilding and an analysis of women’s leadership in human rights activism and conflict resolution. However, this unique course is built around the involvement of four women peacemakers from conflict zones around the world who will play an active role in the classroom and help us explore how power, oppression, and gendered identities contribute to war and peace from the personal to the societal levels. Through a series of expert lectures, case studies, interactive exercises, and mixed media presentations, students will gain increased understanding about gender and peacebuilding, including the gendered drivers of conflict, and the different roles women and men play supporting, preventing, mitigating, and resolving conflict. |
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| 11:30 AM | Faculty, Current Student, Staff Advising Jump into the small Zoom rooms for 1:1 advising from current students, faculty, and admissions counselors! This is your opportunity to gain specific insight about student life, admissions questions, curriculum, and more. |
| 12:00 PM | Event Concludes |