Master's in Community Organizing
Learn the theory and practice of community organizing in the midst of a Latinx community center in Chicago. The Autonomous University of Social Movements offers a unique two-year master's degree based in the Centro Autonomo in Chicago. Students combine discussion-based academic classes with hands on experience and regular mentoring from experienced community organizers.
Classes include:
- Popular education theory and practice, grounded in the work of Paulo Freire and Antonio Gramsci
- An in depth look at community organizing models
- Issues in community organizing, including race/gender/class dynamics, cross-cultural communication, leadership, and challenges facing immigrant communities
- Issues in urban organizing, including social and political geography, police, public education, and public health
- Political analysis, including anti-capitalist perspectives, local power structures, and State power structures
Each student designs and implements a community practicum, which might include:
- Working with women's cooperatives dedicated to food preparation, cleaning services or day care
- Developing community responses to police harassment, sub-par public education, wage theft, or the lack of cultural outlets for youth
- Developing popular education curriculum for teaching ESL or bilingual adult high school classes
- Defending homeowners facing foreclosure and tenants facing eviction in an effort to stop gentrification of the Albany Park neighborhood.
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