Social Work with Communities

Course Organization

1. Course introduction Theory: In whose shoes, on whose shoulders?
2. Organizational context within a community context
3. Understanding Communities
4. Understanding Communities
5. Doing the Work: Change Strategies, Power (to the people) - Power Mapping
6. Doing the Work: Change Strategies, Social Agitation and Story-Telling
7. Doing the Work: Change Strategies, The Shock Doctrine
8. Doing the Work: Change Strategies, Movements vs. Moments
9. Did We Make a Difference?
10. Putting it All Together

Books

Alinsky, S. (1989). Reveille for radicals (Vintage books ed.). New York: Vintage Books.

Alinsky, S. (1971). Rules for radicals; a practical primer for realistic radicals. New York: Random House.

Chambers, E., & Cowan, M. A. (2003). Roots for radicals: Organizing for power, action, and justice. New York: Continuum.

hooks, b. (1995). Killing rage: Ending racism. New York: H. Holt and Co.

Horton, M., & Freire, P. (1990). We make the road by walking: Conversations on education and social change. Temple University Press.

Klein, N. (2008). The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. New York: Picador.

Mogul, J., Ritchie, A. J., & Whitlock, K. (2011). Queer (in)justice : The criminalization of LGBT people in the United States (Queer action/queer ideas). Boston: Beacon Press.

Payne, C. (2007). I've got the light of freedom the organizing tradition and the Mississippi freedom struggle (2nd ed.). Berkeley; London: University of California Press. E-book available through PSU library.

Weil, M., Reisch, M., & Ohmer, M. L. (2012). The handbook of community practice (2.nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA; London: SAGE. E-book available through PSU library