This course will assess the role and scenarios for success of community-level organizing. Students, instructed in the major traditions of community organizing will investigate the potential value of those traditions in confronting contemporary challenges. The course pays particular attention to the ways that race, class, gender, sexuality, and their forms of difference shape privilege and power.
Social change is most effective when people work together in an organized way. This gives the community the power we need to achieve the desired change. Students with the knowledge and experience of assesing social change will be better equipped to serve in community organinzing.
By introducing students to the important theories of community organization and change, students will be able to assess the role and prospects for success of community-level interventions and social change.
This course will explore organizing in Scripture and dive into organizing as a response to oppression and injustice.
Luke four states Christ’s mission as to bring the good news to the poor, proclaim release to the captives, and sight to the blind, and to set the oppressed free. Community organizing is a tool used to work towards this mission.
Every community and cause is different. A foundation principal of community organizing is the importance of knowing the community and or cause you are in and responding accordingly.
This course celebrates cultural diversity and recognizes the gift this is to the Kingdom of God
This course demonstrates a practical understanding and skills for doing missional work.
This course is highly experiential and applicable to daily life.
