Community Based Learning in Social Sciences - Summer 2014 @ DeAnza College

Course description:
Practical work with a community, business or civic institution and reflection on that activity, at a beginning level.

• Learn about transformative leadership
• Engage in community based research to identify the needs in your local area
• Engage with fellow students and instructor in
• Attend local community events that are in alignment with your passion
• Interview local community leaders about their work, passions, and path

Assignments

1. Community Leader Interview 25
2. 2 coaching calls with Professor Crain (schedule via email) (15 points each) 30
3. Final Reflective Paper 50
4. Attend one community event 25
5. Complete all 5 assignments (10 points each) 50

TOTAL 180 points

SOSCD080X65R CRN: 11184

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VIDEO & GUIDING QUESTIONS

For PT 1 describe three themes from the video below. How do these themes relate to your own knowledge of leadership and community need? What did you learn from this article on transformative leadership? How does it relate to the video? Give two examples on how it relates. Email your assignment to craincrystallee@fhda.edu.

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PT 1: What is leadership? In this forum students are asked to speculate on the question of leadership. 

PT 2: Watch Angela Davis' video - How does change happen? Write a 500 word summary and analysis of her three major themes and how these three themes relate to your own interest in community change?

PT 3: Interview with a community leader/ or the instructor. For this assignment students will research and select a community leader of their choice or interview the instructor. Once the interview questions are written they must email or call the community leader to schedule a face to face interview OR email the leader their questions. Student are expected to summarize the responses and email them to the instructor before the end of the term.

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PT 4: How can you help create change your community? In this final assignment students are asked to speculate on their role in local, regional, or national community change.  Read the articles below for help in understanding various social, political and economic problems. Write a 500 word essay, single spaced and email it to the professor by the end of the term.

1. "Progressives Ask for Too Little, Not Too Much in Age of Plutocratic Rule, John Nichols and Robert McChesney, Truthout (Aug 14, 2013) 
2. "The Cult You're In," Kono Matsu   
3. "Media Monopoly Revisited," Patrick Morrison, Extra! (Oct 2011)   
4. "Corporate-Funded Online Astroturfing," George Monbiot, Z Magazine (April 2011) 
5. "The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community," David Korten, Yes! Magazine (Summer 2006) 
6. "A Winning Progressive Politics," Paul Wellstone, In These Times (Jan 6, 2003)  
   
7. "How Students in San Jose Raised the Minimum Wage," Gabriel Thompson, The Nation (Nov. 28, 2012)
   
8.  "Story of Citizens United v. FEC," Annie Leonard (Story of Stuff project) 
   
9. "The Top 4 Victories Handed to Corporate America by Today's Supreme Court-So Far," Jim Hightower, Alternet (2/19/11)  
10. Joe Mathews and Mark Paul, watch short video from authors of California Crackup and explore this website
    
11. "Top Judge Calls Calif. Government 'Dysfunctional,'" Jennifer Steinhauer, NY Times (October 10, 2009)   
12. "Reagan's Real Legacy," Peter Drier, The Nation (Feb 4, 2011)   
    
13. "The Stolen Presidential Elections," Michael Parenti   
14. "West Coast Wasteland," Sasha Abramsky, The Nation (Feb 8, 2010)  
15. "What Americans Want: The People’s Budget,” David Moberg, In These Times (June, 2011)
16. "Tea Party Confidential," Kate Zernike, In These Times (October 2010)
17. "Oppression and Democracy," Nicky Gonzalez Yuen 
18. The Story of Cosmetics, Annie Leonard
    
19. "The Anti-Lady Laws of 2012," Sady Doyle, In These Times (Feb 2012) 
    
20. “Update on Mortgage Lending Discrimination; After a disastrous detour, we’re back where we started," Jim Campen, Dollars & Sense December 2010)   
    
21. "The New Jim Crow," Michelle Alexander, The American Prospect (December 2010)  
    
22. "The Ten Most Startling Facts About People of Color and Criminal Justice in the United States," Sophia Kerby, Center for American Progress (March 13, 2012)   
    
23. "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack," Peggy McIntosh    
    
24. "Exploring the Depths of White Racist Socialization," Tim Wise   
    
25. "The Hidden Wound Revisited: White People and Racism," Luba Presnetsova (Fall 2011)
    
26. "Internalized Oppression and the Culture of Silence," Keith Osajima   
27. "Internalized Racism," Suzanne Lipsky   
28. "Lin's Full-Court Press Against Stereotypes," Ky-Phong Tran, SF Chronical (Feb 19, 2012)   
29. "The Con-fusion Ethic," Tim Wise 
30. Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
31.  Drawing the Color Line
32.  Persons of Mean and Vile Condition

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