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Academic Catalog 2018-2019
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Educational Policy and Community Studies

  • Community Engagement and Education, BS
  • Community Engagement and Education, BS: Child and Family Services
  • Community Engagement and Education, BS: Child Care
  • Community Engagement and Education, BS: Community Leadership
  • Community Engagement and Education, BS: Community-​Based Organizations: Policy and Leadership
  • Community Engagement Strategies, Undergraduate Certificate
  • Community Engagement, Minor
  • Community Leadership, Undergraduate Certificate
  • Community-​Based Organizations: Policy and Leadership, Undergraduate Certificate
  • Cultural Foundations of Community Engagement and Education, MS
  • Educational Policy, Graduate Certificate
  • Youth Work, Undergraduate Certificate (School of Education, Department of Educational Policy and Community Studies)
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School of Education

Community Engagement Strategies, Undergraduate Certificate

  • Overview
  • Requirements
  • Advising
  • Opportunities

This undergraduate certificate gives students an opportunity to gain a practical, historical and theoretical understanding of strategies for promoting social change through collective action. If you’re seeking an undergraduate degree at UWM, you’ll receive the certificate upon completion of your degree. If you already have an undergraduate degree, you’ll receive the certificate once you complete the program requirements. Students without a bachelor’s degree receive a certificate from the UWM School of Continuing Education after completing the program’s required coursework.

Outcomes

  • Understand power relations
  • Build coalitions
  • Hold government officials accountable
  • Work with the media

Careers

With a focus on urban issues, this certificate is excellent preparation for students who are interested in becoming community organizers, youth and social workers, politicians, community researchers, and nonprofit administrators. It’s also useful for students interested in specializing in other areas, such as international, environmental or union organizing.

Requirements

Course List
Code Title Credits
Foundation9
Issue Area9
Capstone Internship/Seminar3
Total Credits21

Foundation Requirements

Course List
Code Title Credits
Introductory Course
ED POL 111Introduction to Community Change and Engagement3
External Practical Training 1
ED POL 508Advanced Problems in Community Change and Engagement 23
Historical Perspectives on Organizing, Inequality, and Social Change3
Choose one of the following:
AFRIC 322
Order and Disorder: The Quest for Social Justice
AFRIC 344
Global Black Social Movements
AFRIC 411
Change in African-American Communities
AFRIC 414
The Black Woman in America, Africa, and the Caribbean
ED POL 460
The Chicano Experience
EXCEDUC 300
The Exceptional Individual
HIST 267
The History of Latinos in the United States
HIST 269
Asian Americans in Historical Perspective
HIST 271
The 1960s in the United States: A Cultural History
HIST 440
History of the American Working Classes
HIST 446
African Americans Since the Civil War
HIST 460
The History of Poverty in America
HIST 468
The American Feminist Movement
HIST 473
History of Wisconsin Indians
Total Credits9
1

A second practical training may be approved in some cases by a student's advisor. Practical training must occur at time credits are taken and written permission must be included in student's file prior to enrollment.

2

Enrollment in this course involves participation in a community organizing training offered by a non-UWM organization approved by the Program Committee. Contact the Department of Educational Policy & Community Studies to obtain approval before attending any program or combination of programs.

Issue Area Requirements

Course List
Code Title Credits
Choose 3 credits from one area (practical or foundations) and 6 credits from the other9
Practical Issue Area
Leadership
AD LDSP 507
Introduction to Group Leadership
AD LDSP 537
Leadership and Management of Volunteer Programs
Communications/Public Relations/Applied Writing Skills
COMMUN 103
Public Speaking
COMMUN 264
Persuasive Speaking
COMMUN 350
Intercultural Communication
COMMUN 363
Communication in Human Conflict
COMMUN 464
Theory and Practice of Persuasion
ENGLISH 214
Writing in the Professions:
ENGLISH 435
Rhetoric and Professional Writing
JAMS 524
Advertising and Public Relations Campaigns
Fundraising
ED POL 602
Proposal Writing and Fundraising Skills for Community-Based Organizations
Evaluation/Applied Research Skills/Statistical Understanding
AFRIC 220
Introduction to Statistics in African and African Diaspora Studies
or MTHSTAT 465
Introductory Mathematical Statistics for Social Sciences and Education
AFRIC 350
The Black Family
AD LDSP 647
Evaluation of Adult, Continuing, and Higher Education Programs
ED POL 507
Action Research on Milwaukee Institutions
POL SCI 392
Survey Research
Organizational Change in Non-Profit Organizations
AD LDSP 607
Coordination of Staff Development and Training Program
Organizing/Negotiating
COMMUN 665
Introduction to Mediation
ED POL 411
Conflict and Change in Community-Based Organizations
ED POL 611
Community Policies and Urban Minority Youths
ED POL 688
Fieldwork in Multicultural Education
URBPLAN 655
Negotiation Theory and Practice for Urban Planners
Foundations Issue Area
Economics, Politics, and Urban Contexts in the United States
AFRIC 228
Introduction to Black Political Economy
AFRIC 261
Survey of African-American Political Philosophy
AFRIC 341
Black Politics and City Government
ANTHRO 431
Cities and Culture
ECON 248
Economics of Discrimination
ECON 353
Economic Development
ED POL 113
The Milwaukee Community
HIST 450
Growth of Metropolitan Milwaukee
HIST 463
History of the American City
POL SCI 105
State Politics
POL SCI 213
Urban Government and Politics
POL SCI 450
Urban Political Problems
SOCIOL 377
Urbanism and Urbanization
URBPLAN 141
Urban Planning Solutions to Contemporary Urban Problems
URB STD 250
Exploring the Urban Environment
Social Science Perspectives on Organizing, Inequality, and Social Change
AFRIC 411
Change in African-American Communities
AFRIC 414
The Black Woman in America, Africa, and the Caribbean
COMMUN 672
Communication and Social Order
ED POL/SOCIOL 610
Reproduction of Minority Communities
ED POL 625
Race Relations in Education
EXCEDUC 300
The Exceptional Individual
SOC WRK 206
Introduction to Social Welfare Policy
SOC WRK 630
Families and Poverty
SOCIOL 102
Solving Social Problems
SOCIOL 233
Social Inequality in the United States
SOCIOL 320
Social Change in American Indian Societies
SOCIOL 323
Perspectives on Latino Communities
SOCIOL 324
Comparative Race Relations
SOCIOL 325
Social Change
SOCIOL 333
Social Class in Industrial Society
SOCIOL 338
Small Groups
SOCIOL 343
Collective Behavior
SOCIOL 450
Environmental Sociology
Total Credits9

Capstone Internship/Seminar in Community Organizing

Course List
Code Title Credits
ED POL 442Intermediate Community Education Practice I 33
Total Credits3
3

A second internship in addition to ED POL 442 may be approved in some cases by a student's advisor. Internships must occur at the time credits are taken & written permission must be included in student's file prior to enrollment. The Program Committee is the final arbiter with regard to the relevance of internship opportunities to the mission of the certificate.

Undergraduate Advising

Our purpose is to provide collaborative, mentoring relationships which promote educational, career, and professional development. We value a student-centered, holistic, and ethical approach to advising based on strong partnerships with students, faculty and staff, and the larger campus community. We are committed to creating a respectful and supportive environment. We encourage students to be self-reliant through informed decisions and choices based upon dissemination of accurate information. We value our own continuous professional development to enhance the quality of the advising experience.

How to Prepare for an Advising Meeting

  • Review your Advisement Report in PAWS.
  • Come prepared with questions or topics for discussion.
  • Make a list of courses you think you should take.
  • Investigate opportunities to prepare for the job you want.
  • Keep a record of your academic progress.
  • Understand you are ultimately responsible for creating your educational, life, and career plans.
  • Maintain honest and open communication with your advisor.
  • Take responsibility for choices you make as a student and member of the UW-Milwaukee community.

Scheduling an Appointment

Office of Student Services
Enderis Hall, Room 209
(414) 229-4721
soeinfo@uwm.edu

Walk-In Hours

Walk-in advising is for current School of Education students and is limited to 10-15 minutes. Offered weekly on Thursday from 1-4 PM, these opportunities allow for you to meet briefly with your assigned academic advisor, or an advisor familiar with your program of study.

Transfer Student Not Yet Enrolled at UWM?

If you are attending a different college or university and would like to transfer to UWM to study in the School of Education and have questions, please connect with our Transfer Advisor, Emilee Schultz, at (414) 229-6019 or emilee@uwm.edu.

Graduate Advising

If you are a School of Education graduate student, you may schedule an appointment with your faculty advisor by contacting your faculty advisor directly. Faculty contact information can be found in the People Directory. Your faculty advisor will be listed in your PAWS account. If you are unsure who your advisor is, please contact Graduate Program Admissions Specialist Allison Hochmuth.

Student-Designed Issue Area Option

May replace up to 6 credits of either Practical or Foundations focus areas.

There are many courses at UWM not listed under the Practical and/or Foundations certificate focus areas that may be especially relevant to students with interest in a particular area of organizing. Therefore, with the written permission of the Program Coordinator, students with special interests may develop an issue area that may take the place of up to 6 credits of the Practical or Foundations areas.

Examples of possible student-designed issue areas might include:

  • International Contexts and Organizing
  • Organizing in Rural Settings
  • Health Care Organizing
  • Organizing around Issues of Sexuality and/or Sexual Orientation
  • Contesting the Criminal Justice System
  • Organizing around Disability Issues
  • Pollution and Inequality

Courses for a student-designed focus area will only count towards the Community Engagement certificate if they are taken after a student is officially admitted to the program, and must be officially approved prior to enrollment. Students must show evidence that they cannot pursue their interest under the current constraints of the Practical and Foundations focus areas. A maximum of three credits of independent reading may be included in this student-designed focus if a relevant course or topic is not available at the University.

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Educational Policy and Community Studies

  • Community Engagement and Education, BS
  • Community Engagement and Education, BS: Child and Family Services
  • Community Engagement and Education, BS: Child Care
  • Community Engagement and Education, BS: Community Leadership
  • Community Engagement and Education, BS: Community-​Based Organizations: Policy and Leadership
  • Community Engagement Strategies, Undergraduate Certificate
  • Community Engagement, Minor
  • Community Leadership, Undergraduate Certificate
  • Community-​Based Organizations: Policy and Leadership, Undergraduate Certificate
  • Cultural Foundations of Community Engagement and Education, MS
  • Educational Policy, Graduate Certificate
  • Youth Work, Undergraduate Certificate (School of Education, Department of Educational Policy and Community Studies)
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