Transfers ToCSUCSU GE Area DDescriptionCommunity organizing efforts by people working together to improve their campuses, neighborhoods, and cities is the focus of this course. The course prepares students at an advanced level to become professional organizers, campus leaders, and effective citizen advocates. The history, theory, and different approaches to grassroots community organizing, sometimes using selected case studies as illustration, will be explored at an advanced level. Ideas from the current context for organizing, the impact of social change theories, organizing strategies, tools and new methodologies used in community organizing will be analyzed and then applied. (Off campus field trips may be required.) 