SOSC 60A

About this course

Community organizing efforts by people working together to improve their campuses, neighborhoods, and cities is the focus of this course. The course prepares students at an introductory level to become professional organizers, campus leaders, and effective citizen advocates. The introductory history, theory, and different approaches to grassroots community organizing sometimes using selected case studies as illustration will be explored. Ideas from the current context for organizing, the impact of social change theories, organizing strategies, tools and new methodologies used in community organizing will be analyzed and then applied. (Off campus field trips may be required.)

No section is scheduled at De Anza College for Fall 2026. The course can still be offered in a later quarter.

Enrollment availability changes frequently. Confirm status in the official FHDA registration system before enrolling.

Prerequisites

The De Anza catalog lists no prerequisite for this course.

Advisory: “ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000H or ESL D005.”

Transfer pathways that use SOSC 60A

ASSIST maps SOSC 60A to a requirement in 2 published pathways from De Anza College.

• Leadership StudiesDe Anza → Humboldt State
• Bachelor of Science Major in Mathematics with Departmental HonorsDe Anza → University of the Pacific