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3.00 Credits
The course examines community organizing within the context of community development. The course is structured to have students dialogue about issues, work in groups and use the classroom as a laboratory for community organizing. Topics covered in this course include: the historical and current context for community organizing in Los Angeles, the relationship to social justice and organizing in "third world" countries, the impact of social change theories, organizing strategies, tools and methodologies, and new approaches used in organizing communities. Students learn about some of the community organizing battles taking place in Los Angeles, nationally and internationally. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
In a world of intensifying conflict and change, against a backdrop of economic and technological globalization, this course examines a wide variety of social forces, movements, ideologies, parties, and revolutions throughout the twentieth century, with emphasis on the period since the 1960s in the United States. The course situates the processes of social change within an understanding of culture, economic development and class relations, gender and race/ethnic divisions, political governance and ideology, and personality factors among others. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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Over the past 40 years social construction theory has greatly influenced the discipline and practice of psychology, sociology and the social sciences more broadly. The theory claims that much of what we take for granted as real, natural or true, is in fact a social construct, i.e., something produced through the complex interactions of individuals, groups, institutions and structures. This course gives careful attention to the history and development of social constructionism and its implications in terms of our understanding of the self, the true, the beautiful and the good. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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A central problem of developmental psychology is the systematic understanding of the individual's journey from helpless infant to competent social adult. This course investigates four significant areas of children's thinking: 1) the child's ability to think of others as different from her/himself; 2) the child's ability to attribute to others, inner feelings, personality traits and intentions; 3) the developmental path through which these inferences resemble the strengths and biases of adult inferences; and 4) the child's understanding of the social context, with its rules and cultural norms. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This class focuses on major social policies in the United States that impact children and their families. The historical, economic and political factors critical in the creation and sustaining of these policies are examined, using a critical thinking approach. While a wide range of interdisciplinary material are presented, students are responsible for examining current social policies and beginning to analyze their effects on children, especially children from ethnic minority groups, lower income families and other oppressed groups. The class focuses specifically on the inequalities and inequities in the distribution of economic and social resources through historical and contemporary social policies. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
In attempting to understand human beliefs and behavior, social psychology looks at the interrelationship between individuals and groups. Social psychology is rooted in Lewin's field theory, which examines how a person's behavior isimpacted not just by the individual's personality but the surrounding social environment. This course explores how various aspects of social psychology help explain issues such as aggression and altruism as forms of social behavior, how attitudes are formed and their relationship to behavior, how we present the self and issues around self-esteem, social identity, prejudice and stereotypes. Students also attend to the impact of cross-cultural experiences on these themes. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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This course focuses on child abuse and its contemporary manifestations and consequences as one of the most serious social problems in the United States today. Issues to be addressed include the cultural and historical implications of current definitions of child abuse, identification of abused children, current treatment approaches and child welfare policies designed to protect children, to combat abuse and to intervene with troubled families. A secondary theme of the course is the role of the social work profession in policies designed to prevent and ameliorate child abuse. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course explores some of the relationships between culture and psychological development. Cultural norms, values, beliefs, language, and knowledge are studied in terms of their influence upon physical, cognitive, personality, and social growth. Child-rearing practices and socialization approaches found in various cultures are a central focus. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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1.00 Credits
Students learn the circumstances under which people become homeless, examine their daily struggles and identify local efforts being made to address this persistent social problem. Students interface with an established downtown Los Angeles activist and visit a facility which serves this population and one which serves homeless persons with mental health challenges. No grade equivalents allowed. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to equip students with a comprehensive understanding, both theoretical and applied, of "race" as a category of identityand "racism" as a system of domination and inequality. Students develop a keenawareness of major scholarly figures in the field of ethnic studies and learn the politics of theorizing and defining racial categories as an intellectual exercise. Students weigh competing perspectives, using historical and contemporary evidence, to examine how racial inequality has been constructed and sustained. Throughout the class, students are asked to define and account for their own position as a racialized person. SOCIAL SCIENCE DOMAIN
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