Community Action and Social Change (Minor)

The Community Action and Social Change (CASC) minor provides a structure for working with people in the community to bring about a more sustainable, equitable, and just world. Bridging theory and action, the minor aims to address social and environmental issues, develop community-engaged knowledge and skills, and better prepare students for 21st century challenges and careers that contribute to the public good. The minor is designed to guide students to cultivate civic responsibility, take part in collective action, and gain valuable mentorship from community experts. Intended to complement many of our majors, the CASC minor provides students across academic majors a sustained and developmental path towards deeper and more meaningful engagement in the community.

Program Learning Outcomes

Students who complete the minor will:

1. Reflect critically on their identity as a person, a professional, and a community member.
2. Analyze the relationship between agency and structures that produce inequity in diverse communities.
3. Articulate the links between well-being and social justice on multiple levels (personal, local, national, global).
4. Act creatively and collaboratively in diverse community contexts to promote social justice and address inequities.

Requirements

Core Courses

CASC 3400/HCS 3400	SL: Theory and Practice for Community Action and Social Change	3.00 units
CASC 3405/HCS 3405	SL: Community Engaged Research Methodology and Project Design	3.00 units
Total Credit Hours:		6

Learning Community Courses

Select two 1 unit Learning Community courses

CASC 3451/HCS 3451	Topics in Community Action and Social Change	1.00 unit
CASC 3452/HCS 3452	Topics in Community Action and Social Change II	1.00 unit
CASC 3453/HCS 3453	Topics in Community Action and Social Change III	1.00 unit
CASC 3454/HCS 3454	Topics in Community Action and Social Change IV	1.00 unit
Total Credit Hours:		2

Electives

Select 12 units from the following courses

ART 1030/ART 3031/ART 3311	Beginning Watercolor	3.00 units
ART 3010	Community Engaged Art:Principles & Prac.	3.00 units
ART 3119	Art Fundamentals	3.00 units
BIO 3300	Health and Wellness Pedagogy	3.00 units
BUS 4155	Bus Comm:A Cross-Cultural Pers	3.00 units
CMS 3201	Environmental Communications	3.00 units
CMS 3202	Environmental Advocacy	3.00 units
CMS 3432/CMS 3433	Digital Journalism 1	3.00 units
CMS 3433/CMS 3432/CMS 3434	Digital Journalism 2	3.00 units
EDUC 4010/EDUC 5010	Teaching for Equity	3.00 units
ENGL 1004	Expository Writing	3.00 units
ENGL 3060/LCS 3260	Ethnic Lit: Asian American	1.50 units
ENGL 3061/LCS 3261	Ethnic Lit: Native American	1.50 units
ENGL 3062	Ethnic Lit: African American	1.50 units
ENGL 3063/LCS 3263	Ethnic Lit: Hispanic American	1.50 units
ENGL 3065	Multi-Ethnic Lit of California	3.00 units
ENGL 3066/LCS 3266	Ethnic Literature: Pacific Islander American	1.50 units
ENGL 3067/LCS 3267	Ethnic Lit: Filipino American	1.50 units
ENGL 3070	Advanced Literary Topic: American and British Postmodernism	3.00 units
ENGL 3072/LCS 3272	Literary Topic: Toni Morrison	3.00 units
ENGL 3109/HCS 3109	Politics of the Body in Motion	3.00 units
ENGL 3110/HCS 3110	Place & Identity	3.00 units
ENGL 3200	Advanced Writing and Research	3.00 units
ENGL 3450	Writing in the Community	3.00 units
ENGL 3106/HCS 3106	Gender Subcultures	3.00 units
HCS 3103/HCS 1103	Problems In Contemporary Society	3.00 units
HCS 3109/ENGL 3109	Politics of the Body in Motion	3.00 units
HCS 3220	Native American Perspectives	3.00 units
HIST 3230	Women's Causes/Women's Voices	3.00 units
HIST 3470	Imperialism & Colonization	3.00 units
HIST 3711	U.S. Environmental History	3.00 units
HIST 3723	U.S. Immigration, 1776 - Present	3.00 units
HIST 3728	Drugs and the Drug Wars	3.00 units
HIST 3901	Public History	3.00 units
HIST 3901	Public History	3.00 units
LS 2000/LS 3000	Realities of Teaching Elementary School	2.00 units
LS 4000	Active Inquiry in Education Part I	3.00 units
NURL 4150	Community Health and Nursing Lab	0.00 units
PH 2001/PH 3001	Foundations of Public Health	3.00 units
PH 3100	Principles of Global Health	3.00 units
PH 4000	Health Policy, Politics and Law	3.00 units
PHIL 1108/PHIL 3108	Ethics	3.00 units
PHIL 1109/PHIL 3109	Ethics in Healthcare	3.00 units
PHIL 1110/PHIL 3110	Enviromental Ethics	3.00 units
PHIL 3520	Self, Community & Service	3.00 units
RLGN 1055/RLGN 3155	A Passion for Justice: Contemporary Christian Liberation Theologies	3.00 units
RLGN 1070/RLGN 3170	The Spirituality of the Earth	3.00 units
RLGN 1086/RLGN 3186	Catholic Social Teaching	3.00 units
RLGN 1077/PHIL 1077/PHIL 3177/RLGN 3177	Philosophy & Religions of Asia	3.00 units
RLGN 3177/PHIL 1077/PHIL 3177/RLGN 1077	Philosophy & Religions of Asia	3.00 units
RLGN 3381	Religion & Globalization	3.00 units
SPAN 3201	Adv. Composition & Conversation	3.00 units
WGS 2000/WGS 4000	Principles of Gender Studies	3.00 units
WGS 3801	The Masculinity Matrix	3.00 units
	All SL Courses
Total Credit Hours:		12

NURL 4150: 3 units count for minor

ART 1030, ART 3010, ART 3119, ENGL 1004, ENGL 3200, ENGL 3450, PHIL 1108/3108, PHIL 1109/3109, PHIL 1110/3110, PHIL 3520, RLGN 1055/3055, RLGN 1086/3186, RLGN 3318, RLGN/PHIL 1077/3177, SPAN 3201: To apply these electives to the CASC Minor, courses must include Service-Learning.

Total Credit Hours: 20