Presents fundamental tools of HIV prevention, outreach, and support. Provides students with information and techniques necessary to do effective community work. Topics include harm reduction, youth outreach, communication, and global community issues.
Instructor
Laura Engelken
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
IM
Quarter offered
Fall, Summer
Introduces students to non-profit organizations and grant writing. Through hands-on grant-writing experiences, students learn how to write a successful grant. Please bring a potential fundable project idea to the first class. (Formerly course 162.)
Examines the social, cultural, institutional, and personal ways that white privilege and racial domination are constructed, maintained, and reproduced in U.S. society. Goal is to reveal the hidden quality of whiteness and illuminate effective strategies for anti-racist activism. (Formerly course 114.)
Explores politics and culture of class in contemporary U.S. from interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on social theory, political economy, and cultural forms (film, music, and literature) with special emphasis on race, ethnicity, and gender. (Formerly course 104.)
Students are placed in a community-based program, at Juvenile Hall or with a deputy probation officer, to intern 8-10 hours each week. Includes a weekly seminar to discuss readings and presentations on the juvenile-justice system and internship experiences. Background checks and fingerprinting are required to participate in this course. A two-quarter commitment is preferred. (Formerly course 130.)