Minor in Community Organizing

Requirements

Students are required to take the following courses in sequence (15 cr):

• SW 36000 Introduction to Community Organizing  
• SW 37000 Community Organizing Internship and Field Seminar  
• SW 46000 Advanced Community Organizing Theory & Practice  

Students are required to select two 3 credit electives from a menu of 3 credit elective courses approved by 11 Departments and Programs (see list below): Africana & Latino/Puerto Rican Studies; Anthropology; Community Health; Film & Media Studies; History; Political Science; Public Policy; Psychology; Sociology; Urban Studies; Women & Gender Studies; Asian American Studies. Courses applied by the student for his/her major may not be used to meet this minor’s 6-credit elective requirement.

Community Health:

• PH 30600 - Social Disparities in Health
• PH 32500 - Environmental Public Health
• PH 41100 - Community Health Assessment

Urban Studies:

• URBS 10100 - Urban Life: Personal and Observational View (W)
• URBS 20100 - Urban Plans and Policies
• URBS 31000 - Methods of Urban Research and Policy Analysis

Sociology:

• SOC 21700 - Race and Ethnicity
• SOC 23500 - Community Organization and Action
• SOC 23700 - Social Welfare Policy
• SOC 23900 - Child Welfare (W)
• SOC 25300 - Deviance and Social Control
• SOC 25700 - Sex and Gender Roles
• SOC 25900 - Mass Media, Communication and Public Opinion (W)
• SOC 30700 - Migration
• SOC 30900 - Social Movements and Social Change (W)
• SOC 31700 - Class, Status, and Power
• SOC 31900 - Criminology
• SOC 32000 - Law, Society and Civil Rights

Africana & Puerto Rican/Latino Studies:

• AFPRL 18200 - Culture and Ethnic Identity
• AFPRL 20500 - African American Politics of Social Change
• AFPRL 30400 - Leaders and Movements of Black Urban Communities (W)
• AFPRL 32100 - Caribbean Migration and New York City (W)
• AFPRL 38400 - Poverty in Society (W)
• AFPRL 38700 - Puerto Rican/Latino Politics in the United States (W)

Anthropology:

• ANTHC 21800 - The Anthropology of the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.
• ANTHC 30100 - Gender in Anthropological Perspective
• ANTHC 32076 - Language, Sex and Gender

Psychology:

• PSYCH 19000 - Development of Gender Roles
• PSYCH 23000 - Social Psychology
• PSYCH 23500 - The Psychology of Women
• PSYCH 33400 - Cultural Psychology

Public Policy:

• PUPOL 10000 - Introduction to Public Policy
• SOC 21800 - Social Inequality

Film And Media Studies:

• FILM 32700 - Representations of Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Media
• FILM 32800 - Images of Resistance in the Developing World
• MEDIA 37000 - The Press and the Public
• MEDIA 38100 - Propaganda and the Mass Media
• MEDIA 38400 - Women and Media
• MEDPL 37700 - Neighborhood News (W)

History:

• HIST 31700 - History of the American City
• HIST 31800 - History of the American Working Class (W)
• HIST 3411J - Terror and the Constitution: Free Speech in the U.S. Since 1886 *
• HIST 38225 - LGBT Living in the Global 20th Century *
• HIST 34100 - Race & Racism in U.S. History *
• HIST 34120 - Women and Gender in Islam *
• HIST 38224 - Black Women’s History: From Mum Bett to Michelle Obama and Beyond *

Political Science:

• POLSC 20900 - Women and Gender in Western Political Thought (W)
• POLSC 21200 - Urban Politics (W)
• POLSC 21500 - Public Opinion and Political Participation (W)
• POLSC 21800 - Women and Politics (W)
• POLSC 22100 - U.S. Immigration Policy (W)
• POLSC 22800 - Protest Movements in American Politics (W)
• POLSC 32000 - Ethnic Politics (W)
• POLSC 30500 - Democratic Theory (W)
• POLSC 30900 - Feminist Political Theory (W)
• POLSC 27225 Comparative LGBT Politics *

Women & Gender Studies:

• WGS 24400 - Transnational Feminisms
• WGSS 15000 - Introduction to LGBTQI Studies
• WGSS 26600 - Our Bodies, Our Politics
• WGSL 30600 - Gender and Migration
• WGSP 39800 - Community Leadership Seminar (W)
• WGSS 30002 - Reproductive Rights in the United States *
• WGSL 20004 - Gender and Human Rights *
• WGSL 20010 - Sexuality, Race and Economics *
• WGSC 20001 - Writings from Detention: Repression, Gender & Politics *
• WGSP 20003 - Prison Writing Memoirs *
• WGSP 20010 - Gender, Sexualities & Indigenous Rights *
• WGSP 20011 - Sex Education and Public Policy *
• WGSP 20051 - Gender, Disability & Embodiment *
• WGSP 20057 - Gender & Health Policy *
• WGSP 20070 - Prison, Human Rights & Gender

Asian American Studies

• ASIAN 23002 - Asian American Communities and Mental Health
• ASIAN 39002 - Asian American Civil Rights and the Law