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POLI 60B
Intermediate Community Organizing

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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 intermediate level to become professional organizers, campus leaders, and effective citizen advocates. The history, theory, and different approaches to grassroots community organizing, sometimes using selected case studies as illustration, will be explored at an intermediate level. 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 intermediate level.
• Assess how individuals and groups can affect community organizing processes and outcomes at an intermediate level.
• Demonstrate the capacity to participate effectively in community organizing at an intermediate level.

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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 60B

Requisite and Advisory

Advisory(ies)

EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or ESL 5 POLI 60A or SOSC 60A

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 60B.