Messina College · Boston College
Examining Self, Community, and Society offers a 6-week interdisciplinary seminar (sociology, social psychology, and readings in contemporary literature) that examines the self as a personal construction and situates this agentic self in local communities and society. At every level the course examines the balance between individual choice and the weight of a structured menu of choices, noting the challenge of constructing meaningful identity development and steering a course between possibilities, some of which are fruitful and some of which are harmful to both personal fulfillment and social
