Civic Engagement Minor

Course Requirements (15 credits)

• CIV 101 Intoduction to Civic Engagement
• CIV 501 Directed Field Experience in Civic Engagement
• CIV 502 Directed Study in Civic Engagement

Politics/Policy

Choose one of these courses:

• GPH 115 Global Climate Change: Causes and Consequences
• GPH 171 Environmental Sustainability and Society
• GPH 253 World Cities
• GPH 282P Global Environmental Issues
• GPH 373 Land Use Planning and Analysis
• GPH 375 Food, Drink and the Environment
• GPH 377 Environmental Impact Assessment
• BHS 201 Health Disparities in the U.S. in the 21st Century
• BHS 220 Violence, Safety and Public Health
• BHS 250 Global Health
• BHS 302 Health Policy
• POL 354 International Cooperation and Governance
• POL 304 Environmental Politics
• POL 318 Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
• POL 327 Race and American Politics
• POL 328 Immigration and U.S. Politics
• POL 371 Women in Politics
• SOC 344 Law and Society: Sociology of Law

Communications & Advocacy Skills

Choose one of these courses:

• MCO 220 Media Literacy
• MCO 235 Multimedia Storytelling
• MCO 250 Engaging Audiences
• MCO 304 Mass Media and Society
• MCO 316 Communications in the Global Village
• MCO 356 Media Relations and Publicity
• GPH 180 Saving the World - Social Justice in an Era of Climate Change
• IDS 265 Peace and Peace Building
• IDS 385 Community Organizing I
• IDS 485 Community Organizing II
• POL 219 Introduction to Public Policy
• POL 303 Grassroots Politics
• POL 333 Gender, Law and Policy
• POL 412 Model United Nations
• SOC 250 Public Sociology
• SOC 390 Community Involvement
• SOC 405 Grant Writing and Evaluation Research in the Social Sciences
• SPC 101S Oral Communication for Civic Engagement & Social Justice
• SPC 215 Intercultural Communication

Social justice/Social Change

Choose one of these courses:

• GPH 379 Environmental Justice
• BHS 270 Understanding Diversity and Cultural Competence in Human Services
• BHS 401 Health and Disability Across the Lifespan
• IDS 202 Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies
• IDS 232 American Identities
• IDS 333A A Global “America”, “America” and “Americans” in and of the World
• IDS 360 Gender, Identity and Nationalism
• POL 309 Introduction to Feminist Theory
• POL 311 Modern American Conservatism
• POL 355 The Sixties and Its Contemporary Legacies
• POL 379 Politics of the Developing Countries
• SOC 217 Gender and Society
• SOC 240 Contemporary Social Problems
• SOC 306 The Black Woman
• SOC 310 Education and Society
• SOC 313 Sociology of Aging
• SOC 336 Afro-Latin@s: Race, Culture and Transnationalism
• SOC 341 Urban Sociology
• SOC 345 Race and Ethnicity in Society
• SOC 347 Social Inequality: Race, Class and Gender
• SOC 348 Hispanic Groups in the U.S.