Community Organizing Practice.

Catalog description

This course focuses on intervention at the community level with a special emphasis on grassroots organizing and advocacy. Graduate students review the profession's historic involvement in community organizing; apply interventions that facilitate community organizing; and deepen awareness of their own assumptions, views, skills, and strengths that pertain to work as a community organizer. The course is paired with SWRK 121 and will include undergraduate students as classmates. Some assignments and learning objectives differ and graduate students complete additional requirements, such as an assignment to organize an event.