<p>Seminar, three and one half hours. Investigation of concepts of culture and diversity through direct collaborations with diverse communities in Los Angeles region. Consideration of major issues around well-being of communities in contemporary America, with some eye toward larger global dynamics from fields as wide-ranging as sociology, media studies, anthropology, and urban studies. Investigation of range of theoretical, methodological, and applied literatures to develop group-based project designed in collaboration with one community of student choice in Los Angeles area. Examination of community-based methods of interaction and fieldwork (participatory, ethnography, asset mapping, and action research-based) and propose various information services based on this analysis. Letter grading.</p>

Information Studies

The school engages in fundamental work on what matters most in education and information studies in the 21st century: the discovery and application of usable knowledge at the crossroads of policy and practice.

School of Education and Information Studies

The principal goal of research and practice in information studies is to support the making of culture and community in an increasingly pluralist, globalizing world.

General Catalog

Communities, Information, and Civic Life

INF STD 273

4 units