Course Catalog Information (24-25)
POLI 60C
Advanced 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 advanced 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 advanced 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 advanced level.
- Assess how individuals and groups can affect community organizing processes and outcomes at an advanced level.
- Demonstrate the capacity to participate effectively in community organizing at an advanced 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 60C
Requisite and Advisory
- Advisory(ies)
- EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or ESL 5 POLI 60B or SOSC 60B
- 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 60C.