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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 3400SL: Theory and Practice for Community Action and Social Change

3.00 units
CASC 3405/HCS 3405SL: 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 3451Topics in Community Action and Social Change

1.00 unit
CASC 3452/HCS 3452Topics in Community Action and Social Change II

1.00 unit
CASC 3453/HCS 3453Topics in Community Action and Social Change III

1.00 unit
CASC 3454/HCS 3454Topics 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 3311Beginning Watercolor

3.00 units
ART 3010Community Engaged Art:Principles & Prac.

3.00 units
ART 3119Art Fundamentals

3.00 units
BIO 3300Health and Wellness Pedagogy

3.00 units
BUS 4155Bus Comm:A Cross-Cultural Pers

3.00 units
CMS 3201Environmental Communications

3.00 units
CMS 3202Environmental Advocacy

3.00 units
CMS 3432/CMS 3433Digital Journalism 1

3.00 units
CMS 3433/CMS 3432/CMS 3434Digital Journalism 2

3.00 units
EDUC 4010/EDUC 5010Teaching for Equity

3.00 units
ENGL 1004Expository Writing

3.00 units
ENGL 3060/LCS 3260Ethnic Lit: Asian American

1.50 units
ENGL 3061/LCS 3261Ethnic Lit: Native American

1.50 units
ENGL 3062Ethnic Lit: African American

1.50 units
ENGL 3063/LCS 3263Ethnic Lit: Hispanic American

1.50 units
ENGL 3065Multi-Ethnic Lit of California

3.00 units
ENGL 3066/LCS 3266Ethnic Literature: Pacific Islander American

1.50 units
ENGL 3067/LCS 3267Ethnic Lit: Filipino American

1.50 units
ENGL 3070Advanced Literary Topic: American and British Postmodernism

3.00 units
ENGL 3072/LCS 3272Literary Topic: Toni Morrison

3.00 units
ENGL 3109/HCS 3109Politics of the Body in Motion

3.00 units
ENGL 3110/HCS 3110Place & Identity

3.00 units
ENGL 3200Advanced Writing and Research

3.00 units
ENGL 3450Writing in the Community

3.00 units
ENGL 3106/HCS 3106Gender Subcultures

3.00 units
HCS 3103/HCS 1103Problems In Contemporary Society

3.00 units
HCS 3109/ENGL 3109Politics of the Body in Motion

3.00 units
HCS 3220Native American Perspectives

3.00 units
HIST 3230Women's Causes/Women's Voices

3.00 units
HIST 3470Imperialism & Colonization

3.00 units
HIST 3711U.S. Environmental History

3.00 units
HIST 3723U.S. Immigration, 1776 - Present

3.00 units
HIST 3728Drugs and the Drug Wars

3.00 units
HIST 3901Public History

3.00 units
HIST 3901Public History

3.00 units
LS 2000/LS 3000Realities of Teaching Elementary School

2.00 units
LS 4000Active Inquiry in Education Part I

3.00 units
NURL 4150Community Health and Nursing Lab

0.00 units
PH 2001/PH 3001Foundations of Public Health

3.00 units
PH 3100Principles of Global Health

3.00 units
PH 4000Health Policy, Politics and Law

3.00 units
PHIL 1108/PHIL 3108Ethics

3.00 units
PHIL 1109/PHIL 3109Ethics in Healthcare

3.00 units
PHIL 1110/PHIL 3110Enviromental Ethics

3.00 units
PHIL 3520Self, Community & Service

3.00 units
RLGN 1055/RLGN 3155A Passion for Justice: Contemporary Christian Liberation Theologies

3.00 units
RLGN 1070/RLGN 3170The Spirituality of the Earth

3.00 units
RLGN 1086/RLGN 3186Catholic Social Teaching

3.00 units
RLGN 1077/PHIL 1077/PHIL 3177/RLGN 3177Philosophy & Religions of Asia

3.00 units
RLGN 3177/PHIL 1077/PHIL 3177/RLGN 1077Philosophy & Religions of Asia

3.00 units
RLGN 3381Religion & Globalization

3.00 units
SPAN 3201Adv. Composition & Conversation

3.00 units
WGS 2000/WGS 4000Principles of Gender Studies

3.00 units
WGS 3801The 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