Examines the principles and tactics of community organizing that have enabled affected citizen groups, including churches, to work together to build stronger, more just, and more democratic communities.

Studies how ordinary citizens, neighborhoods, racial/ethnic groups, workers, and others have faced social, economic, environmental, or other kinds of challenges to their well being and organized their collective energies and voices to address those challenges.

Explores the history of community organizing in American history, including the women’s suffrage, civil rights, farm worker, anti-war, and gay rights movements, and how these movements have affected positive social and political change.