Ryerson names social activism course after Jack Layton
Posted April 7, 2014 9:36 am.
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Ryerson University has named a course after late NDP Leader Jack Layton.
The Jack Layton School for Social Activists class will be offered for the very first time this summer.
Ryerson politics professor Myer Siemiatycki, who is teaching the course, told the Toronto Sun that the idea grew out of the lifelong connection Layton had with Ryerson.
Layton was a professor at the university in the the 1970s and 1980s.
The curriculum is still being worked out, but is expected to be a combination of political, economic and environmental topics, and will teach students how to get their message out to the media.
Layton died on Aug. 22, 2011, at the age of 61, after battling cancer.
