Program Components 1-3
For the Masters Degree, Community Organizing and Social Change Concentration, click here.
(1.) Required Introductory Course (Core Course): 3 Credits
ED POL 111: Introduction to Community Organizing 3
(2.) Required Practical Training Course (Core Course): 3 Credits
ED POL 508: Problems of Change in Community Organizations 3
Enrollment in this course involves participation in a community organizing course offered by a non-UWM organization approved by the Program Committee.
Currently, the Midwest Academy 5-day training program is approved. Student should contact the Program Committee to obtain approval before attending any other program or combination of programs.
Students must write a paper analyzing their experience at the training course to receive credit for the course.
(3.) Course in Historical Perspectives on Organizing, Inequality, and Social Change
3 credits chosen from the following options.
AFRICOL 218: Conflict and Cooperation in Black-White Relations 3
AFRICOL 322: Order and Disorder: The Quest for Social Justice 3
AFRICOL 344: Political Movements & Organizations in the Afroworld 3
AFRICOL 411: Change in African-American Communities 3
AFRICOL 414: Race, Injustice, and Change in America 3
ED POL 461: The Chicano Experience 3
EXCEDUC 300: The Exceptional Individual 3
HIST 266: Race, Racial Thought, and Prejudice in the United States 3
HIST 267: The History of Latinos in the United States 3
HIST 269: Asian Americans in Historical Perspective 3
HIST 271: The 1960s in the United States 3
HIST 440: History of the American Working Classes 3
HIST 446: Black Americans Since the Civil War 3
HIST 460: The History of Poverty in America 3
HIST 468: The American Feminist Movement 3
HIST 473: History of Wisconsin Indians 3
