Undergraduate Academic Minor
The CASC minor is a new University Of Michigan College Of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LS&A)-approved minor for students interested in community action and social change. The multidisciplinary minor will prepare students to: (1) examine community action and social change using a multidisciplinary framework; (2) address community action and social change in multilingual and multicultural communities; (3) integrate social justice values into the community action and social change processes; and (4) engage in service learning to promote community action and social change.
The minor requirements include:
- Foundation Minor Core Course:
- SW 305: Theories and Practices for Community Action and Social Change (3 credits, SS distribution credit)
- CASC Elective Clusters (12 credits, minimum of 3 credits in each cluster):
- Context Cluster: These electives provide students with a range of context, theories and multidisciplinary perspectives to support understanding of various community action and social change efforts
- Diversity Learning Cluster: These electives provide students with skills and learning opportunities to facilitate diversity learning to support community action and social change efforts
- Action Service Learning Cluster: These electives provide students with opportunities to engage in service learning opportunities to promote community action and social change initiatives
- Capstone Course
- Upon completion of core course and electives, students will enroll in a one-credit capstone course to develop an integrative learning project, such as e-portfolio, in consultation with social work faculty advisors or other faculty steering committee members.
There are no prerequisites for the academic minor, although individual courses elected to meet the requirements of the academic minor may have course prerequisites.
This is a collaboration between the School of Social Work, the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, the Residential College, the Department of Psychology, the Department of Sociology, the Program in American Culture the Program in Intergroup Relations, and the Michigan Community Scholars Program.