Discover the changemaking curriculum
Changemaking at USD provides students with a range of knowledge, perspectives, methodologies and skills that will equip them well to make positive social change and to be engaged, active members of their communities.
Students will discover that the most urgent challenges facing our communities today are ones that impact all of us and that we are all interconnected — with respect to challenges and to the ways we address them.
18-19 units
Minor
The changemaking minor is an interdisciplinary program designed for students with ingenuity, thoughtful determination and passion for community engagement.
The Changemaking Minor
9 Lower Division Units | ||
CHNG 101 | Introduction to Changemaking | 3 |
Social and Political Systems Select one of: | 3 | |
SOCI 210 | Social Justice | |
COMM 101 | Introduction to Human Communication | |
POLS 120 | Introduction to American Politics | |
ETHN 100 | Introduction to Ethnic Studies | |
ANTH 102 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology | |
Human Values and Decision-Making Select one of: | 3 | |
LEAD 160 | Personal Leadership, Self-inquiry and Discovery | |
THRS 231 | Christian Changemakers | |
PHIL 116 | Morality and Justice | |
PSYC 101 | Introductory Psychology | |
9-10 Upper Division Units | ||
Creative Strategies for Social Change Select one of: | 3 | |
ENTR 312 | Global Social Entrepreneurship | |
ENTR 310 | Innovation and Design Thinking | |
LEAD 350 | Leadership and Group Development | |
PSYC 322 | Social Psychology | |
Elective Select one of: | 3-4 | |
ANTH 410 | Social Change: Global Perspectives | |
CHNG 303 | Design Thinking and Social Change | |
COMM 325 | Interpersonal Communication | |
COMM 333 | Podcast Storytelling | |
COMM 338 | Media and Conflict | |
COMM 350 | Small Group Communication | |
COMM 353 | Organizational Communication | |
COMM 356 | Strategic Communication | |
COMM 360 | Public Relations and Community Advocacy | |
COMM 370 | Rhetoric | |
COMM 384 | Media and the Marginalized | |
COMM 462 | Political Communication | |
COMM 442 | Critical Whiteness Communication | |
COMM 475 | Intercultural Communication | |
ECON 304 | Urban Economics | |
ECON 308 | Environmental and Natural Resource Economics | |
ECON 335 | Economic Development of Latin America | |
ENGR 351 | Community-Based Participatory Engineering Apprenticeship | |
ENTR 304 | Entrepreneurship and New Ventures | |
ENTR 320 | Emerging Trends in Entrepreneurship | |
ENTR 333 | Torero Ventures Lab | |
ETLW 403 | Sustainability and Business | |
EOSC 300 | Environmental Issues | |
EOSC 314 | Introduction to GIS | |
EOSC 380 | Global Environmental Health | |
ETHN 322 | African American Civil Rights | |
ETHN 355 | Asian American Social Movements | |
ETHN 360 | Race, Religion and Social Justice | |
ETHN 363 | Race and US Social Movements | |
ETHN 365 | US Women of Color Theory and Activism | |
GENG 350 | Engineering and Social Justice | |
HIST 370 | US Environmental History | |
HIST 385 | African American Women's History | |
KROC 521 | Social Innovation | |
KROC 523 | Social Entrepreneurship | |
LEAD 359 | Models of Participatory Leadership | |
LEAD 360 | Global Leadership: Experiential Study of Culture and Leadership | |
LEAD 415 | Social Enteprise and Innovation | |
LEAD 352 | Fundraising and Nonprofit Managements | |
MKTG 340 | Social Media Marketing | |
MKTG 341 | Digital Marketing | |
MUSC 333 | Pro-Seminar in Musicology | |
MUSC 341 | Religion and the Performing Arts in Bali | |
MUSC 440 | Topics in Ethnomusicology | |
PHIL 321 | Social Ethics | |
PHIL 332 | Business Ethics | |
PHIL 333 | Legal Ethics | |
PHIL 336 | Virtues and Vices | |
PHIL 337 | Mass Media Ethics | |
PHIL 338 | Environmental Ethics | |
PHIL 341 | Ethics and Education | |
PHIL 342 | Engineering Ethics | |
PHIL 343 | Gender and Economic Justice | |
PHIL 344 | Environmental Justice | |
PHIL 345 | Computer Ethics | |
PHIL 348 | Ethics of AI and Robotics | |
PHIL 349 | Art and Ethics | |
POLS 300 | Democratic Theory | |
POLS 309 | Sex, Power, and Politics | |
POLS 316 | State and Local Government | |
POLS 317 | Asian American Politics | |
POLS 318 | Black Politics | |
POLS 319 | Politics of Race and Ethnicity | |
POLS 344 | Politics of US Citizenship and Migration | |
POLS 346 | Food and Politics | |
POLS 347 | Culture and Environmental Politics | |
POLS 348 | Indigenous Peoples and the Environments | |
POLS 349 | Politics and the Environment | |
POLS 400 | Political Ideas and Ideologies | |
PSYC 324 | Cross-Cultural Psychology | |
PSYC 326 | Organizational/Industrial Psychology | |
PSYC 328 | Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination | |
PSYC 362 | Black Families | |
SOCI 303 | Race and Ethnic Relations | |
SOCI 346 | Rights, Justice, Law and Social Change | |
SOCI 371 | Inequality and Social Change | |
SOCI 374 | Social Movements | |
SOCI 410 | Social Change: Global Perspectives | |
SOCI 412 | Community, Consensus, and Commitment | |
SOCI 471 | Environmental Inequality and Justice | |
THEA 475C | Theater and Community | |
THRS 331 | Sexual Ethics | |
THRS 332 | HIV/AIDS and Christian Ethics | |
THRS 334 | Christian Social Ethics | |
THRS 335 | Catholic Social Thought | |
THRS 367 | Feminist Theology and Ethics | |
THRS 369 | Liberation Theology | |
THRS 376 | Racial Justice: Catholic Perspectives | |
THRS 377 | The Theologies of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X | |
THRS 383 | The Gospel of Luke: Scriptures and Justice | |
THRS 384 | The Gospel of Luke: Sinners and Social Justice | |
CHNG 495 | Changemaking Capstone | 3 |
Total Units | 18-19 | |