Course Catalog Information (24-25)
POLI 60A
Introduction to Community Organizing
Course Description
Community organizing efforts by people working together to improve their campuses, neighborhoods, and cities is the focus of this course. The course prepares students at an introductory level to become professional organizers, campus leaders, and effective citizen advocates. The introductory history, theory, and different approaches to grassroots community organizing sometimes using selected case studies as illustration will be explored. Ideas from the current context for organizing, the impact of social change theories, organizing strategies, tools and new methodologies used in community organizing will be analyzed and then applied. (Off campus field trips may be required.)
Student Learning Outcomes
- Evaluate community organizing processes and outcomes at an introductory level.
- Assess how individuals and groups can affect community organizing processes and outcomes at an introductory level.
- Demonstrate the capacity to participate effectively in community organizing at an introductory level.
Course Details
- Units
- 4 Units
- Hours
- Weekly Lecture Hours: 4
- Weekly Lab Hours: 0
- Gen Ed
- General Education Class
- Program Status
- Program Applicable
- Credit
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Transferability
- Transferable to CSU only
- Grading Method
- Letter Grading
- Also Listed As
- SOSC 60A
Requisite and Advisory
- Advisory(ies)
- EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or ESL 5
- Prerequisite(s)
- Corequisite(s)
Limitations on Enrollment and Entrance Skills
- Limitation(s) on Enrollment
- Not open to students with credit in the cross-listed courses Also listed as SOSC 60A.