Community Action and Social Change (Minor)

The primary focus of this minor is to prepare students to be ethical leaders and responsible global citizens. Through this minor students learn key principles and best practices in community engagement and learn to think and act systemically while reflecting on their own identity and civic involvement. The minor cultivates students’ capacity to understand and promote diversity and sustainability as they apply the theoretical content from the core classes and their chosen majors to praxis 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

Upper Division:

CASC 3400/HCS 3400	Theory and Practice for Community Action and Social Change	4.00 units
CASC 3405/HCS 3405	Community Engaged Research Methodology and Project Design	4.00 units

Select two Service Learning courses.

	Elective	4.00 units
	Elective	4.00 units

Total Credit Hours: 16