CCOG for PS 280B Fall 2024
- Course Number:
- PS 280B
- Course Title:
- Cooperative Education: Community Service & Action Seminar
- Credit Hours:
- 2
- Lecture Hours:
- 20
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
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Demonstrate the ability to communicate and work effectively in a range of organizational frameworks engaged in service, advocacy, and social change.
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Demonstrate increased effective personal involvement in community issues and public policy.
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Develop interpersonal, organizational, and political skills to advance individual and collective interests.
Course Activities and Design
Course activities can include a variety of readings, discussions, field experiences, interviews, case studies, problem-solving analysis, group and individual exercises, and reflective journals related to the course content.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
Outcomes can be assessed through a variety of individual and group projects, presentations, case studies, field research, and reflective journals
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
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Developing active listening and communication skills
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Understanding the helping relationship, and developing basic helping skills
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Building community and promoting empowerment
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Practicing mediation, principled negotiation, and alternatives to adversarial conflict
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Analyzing group and organizational processes, and learning how to work effectively in diverse contexts
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Exploring the dynamics of service, advocacy, and social change organizations
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Developing basic political lobbying skills
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Exploring the process of developing, implementing, and influencing public policy
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Exploring values and ethics involved in professional service, advocacy, and social change work
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Appreciating diversity and working effectively with diverse populations