PSYC 456 - Social Advocacy & Community Resource Development

(3 hours) Prerequisites: SOCI 375 or PSYC 375 or permission of instructor. This course introduces students to the contexts, challenges and opportunities of social advocacy and community resource organizing. It will provide students with frameworks, tools and practical skills to analyze and develop a deeper understanding and practical knowledge of community organizing and advocating for various human service programs. It seeks to engage students in a learning community to collaboratively develop a broader application of community organizing for human service agency sustainability. This course cannot be challenged.