Social Science Community Studies - Gavilan College

Social Science Community Studies from Gavilan College is a Campus Associate Sociology degree that prepares you for a Human Services career. Majors in Social Science with Emphasis in Community Studies gain durable tools to enrich and empower their communities by promoting social justice. Taking courses in anthropology, cultural geography, economics, history, political science, psychology, and sociology, students become competent to analyze, contextualize, and change local communities. They create linkages between national and global issues, movements, and ideas as they relate to local communities, and prepare both for a variety of careers and for all-important responsibilities as participants in a democracy. Students completing this A.A. degree will be able to transfer to four-year colleges or enter the professional world in fields including public service, law, politics, community organizing, advocacy, media, teaching, social work, psychology, anthropology, history, urban planning and economics. Program Learning Outcomes: After completing this degree students will be able to: practice and analyze democratic civic engagement. demonstrate and evaluate relationships between local and national issues, movements, and ideas as they relate to local communities. demonstrate a range of skills including: research, documentation, analysis, evaluation, communication, contextualization, teamwork, observation, and cultural competency by relating social science concepts and theories to issues of importance to local communities. identify, develop, use, and assess tools and methods for community change and social justice. View more details on Gavilan College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Sociology courses.