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LEADERSHIP AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Leadership and Social Change
Certificate of Achievement
The Leadership and Social Change Certificate of Achievement prepares students to be community leaders, agents of change in the workplace and responsible participants in civic life in general. Students completing this certificate are prepared to work as an entry-level union organizer or staff person at a nonprofit organization. Students who plan to pursue a transfer degree can use the skills obtained to analyze the social forces at work in, and to take leadership in, their areas of work or study. Contact the Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action (VIDA) at deanza.edu/vida for more information on earning this certificate.
Program Learning Outcomes - upon completion, students will be able to:
• Analyze the social processes that foster inequality and
disempowerment, and those that challenge inequality and
lead to empowerment.
• Analyze the ways that social processes are amenable to
transformation through strategic planning and constituent
mobilization.
• Apply leadership skills, such as meeting facilitation, strategic
planning, consensus-building and generating buy-in from stakeholders, with the aim of fostering social justice and empowerment.
1. Meet the requirements for this certificate level.
2. Complete the following.
Understanding Social Change
Complete a minimum of four units: 4
 POLI 17
or POLI 17H
Grassroots Democracy:
Leadership and Power 4 also listed as ICS 27
Grassroots Democracy:
Leadership and Power - HONORS
also listed as ICS 27H
ARTS 72
ICS 80 series
ICS 81 series ICS 82 series
POLI 64 series SOSC 80 series
SOSC 82 series SOSC 83 series
Internship in Art (1)
ICS 80, 80W, 80X, 80Y, 80Z
Community Based Learning in
Intercultural Studies - Beginning (0.5-4)
ICS 81, 81W, 81X, 81Y, 81Z
Community Based Learning in
Intercultural Studies - Intermediate (0.5-4)
ICS 82, 82W, 82X, 82Y, 82Z
Community Based Learning in
Intercultural Studies - Advanced (0.5-4)
POLI 64, 64X, 64Y, 64Z
Political Science Internship (1-4)
SOSC 80, 80W, 80X, 80Y, 80Z
Community Based Learning in
Social Sciences - Historical (0.5-4)
SOSC 82, 82W, 82X, 82Y, 82Z
Community Based Learning in
Social Sciences - Philosophical (0.5-4)
SOSC 83, 83W, 83X, 83Y, 83Z
Community Based Learning in
Social Sciences - Sociological (0.5-4)
Total Units Required ....................................18
Leadership Skills
Complete a minimum of four units: 4 BUS 65 Leadership (5)
COMM 15 Critical Decision-Making in Groups (5)
or COMM 15H Critical Decision-Making in Groups - HONORS (5)
COMM 70 Effective Organizational Communication (5) or COMM 70H Effective Organizational
ESCI 21 ICS 2A
ICS 2B ICS 19 ICS 55 POLI 60A POLI 60B POLI 60C
Communication - HONORS (5)
Practices of Environmental Stewardship (5) Introduction to Peer Mentoring, Leadership, and Community Building (2)
Practicum in Peer Mentoring, Leadership, and Community Building (2)
Justice, Nature and the
Geographies of Identity (4)
Civic Leadership for
Community Empowerment (4)
Introduction to Community Organizing (4) also listed as SOSC 60A
Intermediate Community Organizing (4) also listed as SOSC 60B
Advanced Community Organizing (4)
also listed as SOSC 60C
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ICS 10 ICS 17
or ICS 17H ICS 26
ICS 29
POLI 15
POLI 16
SOC 5
WMST 1 WMST 8 WMST 24 WMST 25 WMST 26 WMST 27 WMST 29
An Introduction to African American Studies (4) Critical Consciousness and Social Change (4) Critical Consciousness and Social
Change - HONORS (4)
Introduction to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Studies (4) Cultural Pluralism and American
Law and Justice (4)
also listed as ADMJ 29
Grassroots Democracy:
Race, Politics and the American Promise (4) also listed as ICS 25
Grassroots Democracy:
Social Movements Since the 1960s (4)
also listed as ICS 36
Sociology of Globalization and
Social Change (4)
also listed as INTL 8
Introduction to Women’s Studies (4)
Women of Color in the USA (4)
Women and Gender in Global Perspectives (4) Introduction to Black Feminism (4)
La Mujer: Latina Life and Experience (4) Women and Gendered Violence (4) Masculinities in U.S. Culture and Society (4)
Leadership Internship
Complete a minimum of six units: 6


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