This course offers students the opportunity to explore the complex issues of American poverty through multiple disciplines and approaches. As a course in the Kilachand Honor's College, Seeing Poverty will utilize multiple sources of information for students to examine the historical, political, and public health "view" of poverty. This multi-disciplinary approach will allow students the opportunity to discover for themselves the "truth" or "truths" of what it means to be poor in America today. Students will think about stories that are told about the poor -- who is doing the telling? How are the poor depicted? Lastly, this course will expose students to my work in five of the poorest cities in Massachusetts (Chelsea, Holyoke, Springfield, Lawrence, and New Bedford) with young adult and teenage mothers. By developing a deep understanding of the causes and sustainers of poverty, it is my hope that students will become critical assessors of the depiction of the poor in popular media, and indeed become advocates for the poor. CAS Divisional Assignment: SS; KHC Assignment: SS