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Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Adviser Name:_______________________ Catalog: 2022-2023 Catalog Program: Public Service and Community Engagement Minor

Public Service and Community Engagement Minor

The minor in Public Service and Community Engagement is an innovative, intensive, interdisciplinary program open to all USF undergraduates, regardless of their major, who are interested in developing their skills and knowledge in public service. Students can select a global and/or local focus depending on their interests. Graduates of the program are honored as “McCarthy Scholars” at Commencement.

The PSCE minor provides students the analytical, organizational, and advocacy skills and preparation needed for sophisticated public service. Participation in the minor prepares students to undertake community problem solving through active citizenship.
Through experiential learning, reflection, and analysis, students gain direct exposure to some of the most pressing social issues facing the world.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the Public Service and Community Engagement Minor, students will be able to:

  • Analyze civic issues and social change movements in the context of relevant social, political, environmental and economic systems by synthesizing information from multiple diverse sources
  • Evaluate ethical implications of various social change and leadership models for the common good, and related concepts of service, civic participation, and social justice
  • Examine how one’s social identities, values, beliefs, and commitments to community engagement and public service shape–and are shaped by-the synthesis of formal education and other lived experience
  • Apply principles of cultural humility, open-mindedness, equity, empathy, and ethical integrity when engaging in daily interactions, civic discourse, community engagement, social change actions, and public service

Minor Requirements (20 units)

Leadership for Civic Engagement*

Course NameTerm TakenGradeGen Ed
INTD 202 - Leadership for Civic Engagemnt

Civic Issues (4 units)**

Choose one:

Course NameTerm TakenGradeGen Ed
ARCH 340 - International Projects
ARCH 370 - Construction Innovation Lab
BAIS 310 - Global Environmental Politics
BAIS 320 - Human Rights
BIOL 335 - Pollination Biology
BIOL 336 - Pollination Biology Lab
BIOL 370 - Biology of Cancer
CBMN 350 - Suffering, Solidarity & God
COMS 202 - Rhetoric & the Public Sphere
COMS 369 - Comm and Health Disparities
ECON 372 - Development Economics
ENVA 363 - Environmental Law
ENVA 367 - Environmental Justice
HIST 341 - Feast and Famine
HIST 351 - Slavery in US Hist & Culture
INTD 302 - Erasmus Community
INTD 386 - UTEC Fieldwork MS II
INTD 387 - UTEC Fieldwork SS
MS 400 - Politics & the Media
PASJ 370 - Art and Incarceration
PASJ 380 - Perf Arts & Comm Exchange
PHIL 203 - Social & Political Philosophy
PHIL 244 - Environmental Ethics
POLS 210 - Immigration and Citizenship
POLS 220 - Urban Politics
POLS 352 - Human Rights/Global Change
SOC 226 - Social Problems
SOC 231 - Introduction to Globalization
SOC 233 - Gender,Dev & Globalization
SOC 323 - Urban Education
SOC 338 - Sociology of Education
SOC 354 - Sociology of Law
SOC 356 - Juvenile Justice
SOC 357 - Criminology
THRS 131 - Queering Religion (CEL)
THRS 136 - Holocaust and Genocide
THRS 361 - Religion and the Environment
THRS 404 - Environmental Ethics
URBS 100 - Introduction to Urban Studies
URBS 310 - Urban Field Course

Or any course with a PSC1 attribute

Social Identities (4 units)**

Choose one:

Course NameTerm TakenGradeGen Ed
COMS 315 - Asian American Culture & Comm
COMS 337 - Rhet of Sex,Gender & Sexuality
HIST 125 - African American History
HIST 126 - Asian American History
HIST 379 - Latinos in the U.S.
INTD 240 - Honoring Our LGBTQIA Elders
LAS 305 - Latin@ American Perf & Cult
MS 403 - Race, Ethnicity, & Media
MS 405 - Gender & the Media
POLS 325 - Latino Politics in the U.S.
PSYC 305 - Multicultural Psychology
PSYC 316 - African American Psychology
PSYC 317 - Asian American Psychology
PSYC 331 - Psychology of Sexuality
PSYC 335 - Psychology of Gender
SOC 218 - Latinx/Chicanx Cult & Soc
SOC 228 - Asian/Pac Islndr US Soc
SOC 229 - Diversity/Amer Families
SOC 238 - Afri-Amer Culture & Soc
SOC 240 - People of Mixed Descent
SOC 260 - Sociology of Gender
SOC 325 - Critical Approach to Race/Ethn
SOC 345 - Feminism and the Body
SOC 347 - Sex and Sexualities
SOC 361 - Brazilian Culture & Soc
THRS 125 - Soc. Justice, Activism & Jews

Or any course with a PSC2 attribute

Models of Social Change (8 units)**

Choose two:

Course NameTerm TakenGradeGen Ed
AAS 200 - Community Engagement: Fillmore
ARCH 400 - Community Design Outreach
ART 301 - Design & Social Change
ART 365 - Design Activism
BAIS 399 - BAIS Internship
BUS 448 - Emotional & Cultural Intelligence

 

CDS 303 - Perform & Cultural Resistance

or

THTR 303 - Perform & Cultural Resistance

 

COMS 335 - Rhetoric of Social Movements
COMS 356 - Organizational Communication
DANC 360 - Dance in the Community
ENVA 245 - Comm Garden Outreach
ENVA 396 - Community Internships
HIST 259 - Civ. Rights Mov’t Hist/Film
INTD 175 - Reclaiming Our Vote I
INTD 176 - Reclaiming Our Vote II
INTD 293 - Community Empower Activist I
INTD 294 - Community Empower Activist II
MS 201 - Civic Media
MS 202 - Media History
MS 302 - Communication for Change
MS 311 - Communication Law & Policy
MS 407 - Alt Media & Social Change
MS 420 - American Journalism Ethics
POLS 322 - Politics of American Justice
POLS 335 - Pol Power & Constitutional Law
POLS 341 - Nonviolence in Theory/Practice
POLS 345 - Global Economic Justice
POLS 371 - USF in DC: Internship
POLS 375 - USF in Sacramento
POLS 396 - Public Admin Internship
POLS 397 - Fieldwork in Pub Int Org
POLS 399 - McCarthySFUrban Policy Fellows
RHET 126 - MBS: Wrtg/Spkg in Cmty
SOC 302 - Global Inequalities/Soc Justic
SOC 304 - U.S. Inequalities/Soc Justice
SOC 350 - Social Movements
SOC 392 - Community Organizing
THRS 220 - Catholic Social Thought
URBS 230 - Urban Planning and Design

Or any course with a PSC3 course attribute

Research/Advocacy for Justice***

Course NameTerm TakenGradeGen Ed
INTD 399 - Research/Advocacy for Justice

Note:

*Students should take the Intro to Leadership and Civic Engagement Course as soon as possible after enrolling in the PSCE minor. Though we do not require students take this before completing requirements 2-‐4, we strongly encourage it.

**Students must take AT LEAST ONE service-‐learning course in one of the above categories (in addition to the core requirement). Students may only count a MAXIMUM OF TWO courses from the same discipline toward the minor.

***Students should register for the Capstone Seminar the spring before graduation.

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