Spring 2027

Community Power and Collective Action

Examines power and empowerment in communities and social systems, focusing on how power aids or hinders collective action for community change, and strategies for building power to achieve social justice.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.71 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Build an understanding of the roles that power plays inproducing social problems and social injustices.

  • Make linkages among contemporary social structures and power differentials between and within communities and articulate them in relation to community-based interventions and research.

  • Deepen capacity for thinking about social power in strategic ways for galvanizing social action and bringing about changes that enhance community wellbeing and social justice.

  • Critically assess various strategies for building power incommunities and taking collective action.

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.71 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Power and empowerment in communities and social, economic, and political systems
  • Role of power in collective action for community change and improvement
  • Power's role in maintaining the status quo and defending elite interests
  • Contemporary social structures and power differentials between and within communities

Skills

  • Identify, describe, and analyze power and empowerment within communities and social, economic, and political systems; understand how power produces social problems and injustices.
  • Link contemporary social structures and power differentials to community-based interventions and research.
  • Think strategically about social power to galvanize action for community wellbeing and social justice.
  • Critically assess strategies for building community power and taking collective action.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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