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SWK-S 663: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND ADVOCACY (3 credits)

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This course focuses on fostering community practice competencies essential for promoting human and sustainable development along with social, economic and environmental justice. In this course, students learn how to identify common interests, mobilize citizens, build constituency and leverage resources to build power and influence positive change at the community, organizational, and policy levels. The models of practice covered in this course include community organizing, leadership development and advocacy with special emphasis placed on empowerment models of practice.

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