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department Community Studies (X) |
Either study related to a course being taken or a totally independent study. Designed for graduate students. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Surveys different strategies of community activism including charity, volunteering, labor and community organizing, and recently emerging global activism with goal of demonstrating how certain strategies challenge existing social relations and arrangements while others typically (and often by design) reproduce them. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Examines roles young people have played and still play in social movements locally and internationally. Guiding questions are "Under what conditions do youth enter social movements?" and "What models do they create or adopt?" (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Seminars taught by upper-division or graduate students under faculty supervision. (See course 192.)
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Trains students in the techniques of documentary film making. Through lectures, demonstrations, hands-on instruction, and review of students' work in progress, students learn the fundamentals of film/video pre-production, production, and post-production skills. Concurrent enrollment in course 80L required. Enrollment limited to 25.
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Provides students with photography skills. Through lecture, demonstration, hands-on experience, and field sessions, students acquire technical and aesthetic training in basic darkroom skills, methods of photographing people, an introduction to alternative processes, and presentation of finished photographs. Concurrent enrollment in course 80L required. Enrollment limited to 20.
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Trains students in the fundamental techniques of documentary audio production. Through lectures, documentary examples, demonstrations, hands-on instruction, and consultation with students regarding their work in progress, students gain the skills they need to produce their own audio documentaries. Concurrent enrollment in course 80L required. Enrollment limited to 20.
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Provides introduction to digital photography and social documentary photographic techniques. Through lecture, demonstration, hands-on experience and field sessions, students learn camera operation, how to photograph people, photographic aesthetics, Adobe Photoshop, and arranging photos in essay form. Concurrent enrollment in CMMU 80L is required. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Weekly interactive lecture/discussions and practicum participation develop student knowledge and skills or peer education theory and practice including advocacy, ethics, harm reduction, and environmental strategies. UCSC-related health issues such as substance use, sexual health, and social justice are discussed. Enrollment by interview to determine ability to handle confidentiality and other peer counseling issues. Enrollment limited to 25.
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Introduction to study of Chicano political experience with selected U.S. institutions, e.g., education and health, beginning with historical overview and ending with consideration of Chicanos' political future in the 1990s. Weekly guest lecturers. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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The civil rights movement of the 1950s–60s was one of the most important grassroots social movements in American history. Course examines this movement, focusing especially on the experiences of rank-and-file participants and on its effects on American society. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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Introduction to the study of social change and Asian Americans, with an emphasis on community and activist perspectives. Weekly film or guest lecturers. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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Examines works from various media recognized as being drawn from "real life." Through film, photography, oral history, and other examples, develops critical understanding of social documentation as a process with implicit theories and conventions. Students create beginning documentaries in production collectives. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences.)
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Supervised research for lower-division students, conducted off campus within regular commuting distance of the campus. Petitions may be obtained in the Community Studies Office. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Supervised off-campus study conducted under the immediate and direct guidance of a faculty supervisor. For lower-division students doing part-time off-campus study. Petition must be obtained from the Community Studies Department. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Individual directed study for lower-division undergraduates. Petitions may be obtained in the Community Studies Office. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Introduces students to different ways of perceiving and understanding social phenomena in an ongoing dialogue about practical implications of theory and theoretical implications of practice. Faculty introduce and discuss their own work in these terms. Topics vary from quarter to quarter. Enrollment priority given to proposed community studies majors. Permission of instructor required; see enrollment conditions in the Schedule of Classes.
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Uses case study approach to analyze use of films and videos in relation to social change movements. Students produce a video as final project. Interview only: admission determined at first class meeting. Enrollment restricted to sophomores and juniors. Concurrent enrollment in course 170 is required. Course 80L is recommended. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Examines how markets operate within the political economy of contemporary capitalism to generate myriad and often chronic forms of economic and social inequality in the United States. Explores different approaches to addressing inequality within the multi-faceted economic justice movement. Interview only: admission determined at first class meeting. Enrollment limited to sophomores and juniors. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): IS, E.)
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Introduction to contemporary U.S. immigration patterns and policies, to major problems facing immigrant communities, and to theory and practice of immigrants and their allies in confronting these problems and working for social justice. Interview only: admission determined at first class meeting. Enrollment limited to sophomores and juniors. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): IS, E.)
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Explores the role of culture in health or health practice. Critiques the Western medical model, including its individual bias, and encourages a broader perspective on prevention that includes the role of social, economic, environmental, and cultural factors. Interview only: admission determined at first class meeting. Enrollment limited to sophomores and juniors. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Examines system and non-system that is American health care with special attention to inequalities in access, financing, and quality of care. Covers concepts such as equality, fairness, and need as well as community organizing and community building for health. Interview only: admission determined at first class meeting. Enrollment limited to sophomores and juniors. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Where do ideas for democratic social change come from? How are new social movements formed? Emphasis will be placed on subaltern groups including slaves, peasants, workers, utopians, and "second-class citizens" of the global economy from 1492 to the present. Interview only: admission determined at first class meeting. Enrollment limited to sophomores and juniors. Enrollment limited to 25. (General Education Code(s): IS, E.)
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