Community Organizing Internship and Field Seminar

Catalog description

This is a one semester, 100 hour supervised Field Internship and a bi-weekly Community Organizing seminar. The purpose of the Internship is to develop skills and apply theory and concepts obtained in the Introduction to Community Organizing course (SW 360). Students choose their organization from a vetted list of community-based organizations provided by the Instructor. They negotiate the hours with the supervisor and approved by the Course Instructor. Among the acquired skills identified are: Organizing and Planning, Interpersonal, Analytical, Administrative and Tactics and Strategies. During the seminar, students have the opportunity to develop group facilitation and leadership skills, personal self-reflection and professional values and ethics using a social justice and human rights lens.