CASA Pitzer学术项目
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This program requires that you co-enroll in 两个 courses and take part in a research fellowship:
- CASA 101关键社区研究
- CASA 105 研究 Methods for Community Change
- Participate in a 125-hour internship in the community
- 两节课你将获得3个学分
For more information about CASA Pitzer, please contact our Program Manager, Scarlett Duarte.
目标
- Work collaboratively with community partners on research, 服务, 组织, and action projects that confront injustice and work towards justice, 股本, 权利, 护理, 幸福, 社区建设.
- Ensure work is accountable to the community, 产生积极影响, 实现长期和短期目标, 并关心相关人员.
- Listen and respond to needs and 资产 of our local community and justice-oriented organizations
- 创造一个包容的空间, 欢迎, 并支持社区建设, 正义的工作, participatory action research and organizational development.
原则
- Interconnection (our liberation are bound; the diminishing and healing of our humanity is locked in a “ne两个rk of mutuality” (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
- Dedication to standing up to injustice and working for 股本, well being and peace while creating joy, 安全, 和连接
- Dedication to embodied justice and radical healing
- Imagination and Creativity (imagining the world we want and creatively cultivating it together)
- Respecting local knowledge, 文化, 资产, and power
- Cultivating long term and meaningful partnerships
- Following the lead of those most directly impacted in the community
- Prioritizing projects that work towards greater personal and systemic change
社区参与 & 激进的伴奏
除了 the intensive student research fellowship that engages in-depth with local community organizations and partners, another central component of CASA is to develop critical spatial analysis through radical accompaniment and meaningful engagement with local community. This occurs through various walking and driving tours and day-long community engagement activities whereby students become familiar with the landscape of the Inland region, 横切空间, 的地方, 政治, 文化, 地理景观.
These engagements vary from semester to semester depending on CASA Pitzer professors’ expertise, 社会需要, and what is occurring politi呼叫y and socially during the current semester.
计划的细节
Students must take the 2 courses simultaneously:
- CASA 101 PZ-Critical Community Studies
- CASA 105 PZ-研究 Methods for Community Change
CASA students explore current movements, theories and narratives centered around critical social justice issues in our local communities and effective means for making social change.
Courses will highlight frameworks and practices of community-based participatory action research, 变革运动组织, 治愈的正义, 哪些致力于建设和平, 幸福 and liberation from the inside out.
Students will apply theory to practice through interdisciplinary scholarship, 课堂上的对话, writing assignments utilizing self-reflection and critical analysis, 从实践经验中学习, 创意艺术活动, and direct engagement with local change-making organizations and movements through community-based participatory action research.
Our theoretical frameworks are grounded in a cross section of disciplines, including contributions from cultural studies, 心理学, 社会学, 教育, 社区卫生和政治研究. Course praxis (theory + action +critical reflection) plays out in large part through the program’s intensive practicum (125-hour internship), class field-trips and interactive workshops that exemplify that which we study.
Students engage in hands-on applications of community-based 教育 and develop greater awareness of their own positionalities and values, 以及当地的知识, 资产, 以及社会变革的途径.
CASA is designed for sophomores and juniors, and it satisfies the following majors:
- 社会学
- 环境分析
- 组织研究
- 批判性全球研究
- 美国研究
- 社会责任实践
- 社会公正理论
- 跨文化理解(本地)
交通报销
CASA Pitzer offers transportation reimbursement for all community-based travel (fall and spring semesters only) during your time in the program.
To be reimbursed, submit your receipts or mileage forms.
If you drove, you will also be required to submit a mileage form as we do not reimburse for gas.
范授权
CASA Pitzer不在学校, students will have the opportunity to ride to class in the Pitzer Vans.
If you are interested in being a van driver or being certified as the alternate driver, please complete the 范授权 form and submit to Pitzer’s Human Resource Office.
参考资料 Community-Based Participatory 研究
Here are some resources for Community-Based Participatory 研究 that will be helpful during your time in this course.
CASA学生文件
This is the Google Drive folder of student documents. There are readings and other useful forms in the Google Drive folder.