Oct 10, 2024  
USC Catalogue 2021-2022 
    
USC Catalogue 2021-2022 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Non-Governmental Organizations and Social Change (BA)


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This interdisciplinary program focuses on the roots of social conflict, on theories and methods for understanding them, and on the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and nonprofits that address them. To remedy social problems, we need to examine their economic, political and social roots, as well as the varied forms of organizations that aim to fix them. Students will engage in various methods of analysis, from investigations of everyday interactions to explorations of larger economic, political and social structures. In classrooms and internships, students will learn how people in NGOs and nonprofits promote new forms of citizenship and governance, aiming to protect the environment and to lessen the suffering of people around the world.

The major requires nine courses (36 units) chosen from the specific lists of requirements below. As with all interdisciplinary majors, students may double-count no more than three courses from this degree to satisfy any other major.

Course Requirements


A. Lower division requirement


B. Core methods


Choose one course (4 units) from the following two:


C. Core theory


D. Perspectives on NGOs


E. Analyzing and identifying roots of social conflict


Choose two courses (8 units):


Note:

*Prerequisite required

F. Addressing social conflict and organizing advocacy


G. Internship experience


Total course requirements: 36 units


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