Community Organizing.

Catalog description

This course focuses on intervention at the community level with a special emphasis on grassroots organizing and advocacy. Undergraduate students learn about the profession's historic involvement in community organizing; review and differentiate interventions that facilitate community organizing; and explore their own assumptions, views, skills, and strengths that pertain to work as a community organizer. The course is paired with SWRK 221 and will include graduate students as classmates. Some assignments and learning objectives differ for undergraduate and graduate students.