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B.A. Specialization: Human Development and Social ChangePacific Oaks student reading

The B.A. specialization in Human Development and Social Change is for individuals who wishe to acquire the skills to create large scale social change. This course of study is designed with the assumption that one's own personal growth and the act of evoking positive social change are interconnected processes and particularly so during times of national or global stress.

Students in this specialization will learn how to collaboratively design and implement change in an organization, school or community, and in society at large by making processes more participatory. Storytelling, dreaming, the arts, grant writing, action research, use of budgets and timelines, and autonomous community building are among the methods and mediums employed. No prior experience in any of the above areas is required.

Basic requirements are:

1. Required Theory Class:

2. One of the following fieldwork courses:

3. One of the following courses evaluation issues of power:

Advisors: Tim Sundeen, Greg Tanaka, Olga Winbush (Pasadena only at this time)

 

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