Principles of Community Organizing

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Explores the basic principles of community organizing through the lens of sociological theory. Students are introduced to the history of community organizing in the United States, and to the major community organizing traditions that have been used in social justice and social movement work past and present. The course includes focus on central skills of organizing, including but not limited to issue identification, recruitment, actions, and research, as well as movement-building, popular education and training as related to core sociological concepts. Across the term, the course pays particular attention to the ways that race, class, gender, sexuality, indigeneity and other forms of difference shape privilege and power.