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Learn how the Community Engagement minor inspires you to engage with your community.


Community Engagement, Minor

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University Requirements
  • A minor is earned in conjunction with a bachelor's degree.

    To receive a minor (18 to 24 units) at Northern Arizona University, you must complete a planned group of courses from one or more subject matter areas with a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.0. At least 12 units of the minor must be unique to that minor and not applied to any other minor.

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In addition to University Requirements:

  • Complete individual plan requirements.

Please note that students may be able to use some courses to meet more than one requirement. Contact your advisor for details.

No more than 50% of the units used to satisfy minor requirements may be used to satisfy major requirements.

Minimum Units for Completion18
Major GPAC
Fieldwork Experience/InternshipRequired
ResearchRequired

Purpose Statement

Students will acquire a broad education in democracy, power, and the skills that bring about change to enhance the commonwealth from the local level, to national and transnational scales through a series of intentional and sequenced learning experiences.  Experiential and leadership training will provide students with a deep and broad understanding of a career as a vocation, in which personal flourishing and broad public purposes are intertwined.  This will enhance students’ employability, vocational connections, and relationships, as well as their capacities to work in diverse, complex, and dynamic situations.  The minor enables students to participate in a transformative initiative in which the NAU community participates in numerous partnerships with surrounding communities in order to become better stewards and citizens. Students who complete this degree will acquire a broad education and real world experience in democratic action, empowerment, and build skills that bring about change on local, national, global levels.


Student Learning Outcomes

  • Mentor peers and engage in collaborative leadership practices.
  • Implement strategies of community-based organizing, political action, social innovation, and/or advocacy.
  • Analyze and engage with structures of power and privilege that shape our world.
  • Understand and apply different theories of social change toward the collective creation and visioning of democratic, equitable, and resilient communities.
  • Think critically, as demonstrated by problem-based research, analysis, and communication of real-world issues.
  • Engage in diverse perspectives and traditions, attentive listening, and thoughtful communication.

 

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Minor Requirements
  • Take the following 18 units with a Grade of "C" or better:

    • SUS 230, SUS 320, SUS 330, SUS 450 (12 units)
    • SUS 208 - one unit each taken concurrently with SUS 230, SUS 320, SUS 330 (3 units)
    • Select one course from (3 units):
      • ANT 230, ANT 280, ANT 480
      • COM 402
      • (ENV 101 and ENV 101L), ENV 181
      • ES 100, ES 150, ES 160, ES 291, ES 391, ES 420
      • FYS 111, FYS 121 - What is America?
      • GSP 206, GSP 472
      • HS 205, HS 250, HS 313
      • HUM 195
      • PHI 334, PHI 335, PHI 357, (PHI 364 or WGS 364)
      • POS 100, POS 110, POS 120, POS 254, POS 312, POS 314
      • SOC 210, SOC 333, SOC 353
      • SUS 101, SUS 220
      • SW 295
      • VC 380
      • (WGS 191 or ES 191), WGS 250, WGS 260, WGS 345
  • In addition, at least 12 of the 18 units required for this minor must be from courses offered by Northern Arizona University.

  • Be aware that some courses may have prerequisites that you must also take. For prerequisite information, click on the course or see your advisor.

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  • Flagstaff

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T Mark Montoya
Associate Dean for Curriculum and Student Affairs, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences; Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies Program
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
T.Montoya@nau.edu
+1 928 523-5502
Raul H. Castro Social and Behavioral Sciences , room 214
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Leah Miriam Mundell
Associate Teaching Professor
Department of Anthropology
Leah.Mundell@nau.edu
+1 928 523-1570
Social Behavioral Sciences (West) , room 280
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Patricia Aline Murphey
Professor
School of Communication
Patricia.Murphey@nau.edu
+1 928 523-2069
Communication , room 333
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Nora Timmerman
Associate Teaching Professor
Department of Sociology
Nora.Timmerman@nau.edu
+1 928 523-5222
Social Behavioral Sciences (West) , room 282
Sustainable Communities
Location
Room 278 Building 70
SBS West
19 W. McConnell PO Box: 6039
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6039
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Email
sustainable.communities@nau.edu
Phone
928-523-6378