Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty

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Successful applicants for SHECP tend to have taken a course on inequality or one that touches on poverty. You may count courses that you plan to take during the spring of the year you are applying. If you have questions email us at levitt@hamilton.edu. While not an exhaustive list, possible courses include:

Biology 214: Health Care Systems
College 240: Natural Disaster in the U.S
Econ 166: Economic Theory and Evidence
Econ 235/236: Policy, Poverty, and Practice I and II
Econ 340: Economics of Development
Econ 342: Urban Economics
Econ 350: Economics of Poverty and Income Redistribution
Educ 202: ESOL/SHINE
Envst 334: Environmental Justice, Law, and Policy
Government 234: The Politics of Equality
Government 363W: Poverty and Development
Sociology 232W: Poverty and Inequality
WMGST-314: Seminar on Feminist Perspectives on Class in the U.S.
WMGST-327: Seminar on Aging

Students must be first-years, sophomores, or juniors to apply. The Levitt Council will use a rubric based on SHECP’s guideline recommendations for selecting interns including maturity, genuine interest in issues of poverty and human capability, flexibility, academic aptitude, and humility and emotional intelligence. It will also consider relevant coursework, volunteer and internship experience, and the lived experience of poverty.

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