2007-08 - Pitzer College

192 ONTARIO PROGRAM
ONTARIO PROGRAM
101. Critical Community Studies. This course will enable students to understand the
dynamics of globalization and community in contemporary U.S. The course takes the
Southern California region as a case study and deals with some of its most pressing
socio-political and environmental problems, such as ecological sustainability, health,
education, housing, immigration, and the growth of the prison system. Students
contribute to seminar discussions on critical readings and participate in 5 fieldtrips,
including the L.A. River, Skid Row, Tijuana, and the California Youth Authority, among
others. This course is the only course which may be taken on its own. Fall/Spring,
S. Phillips, R. Ashmalla.
104A/104B. Social Change Practicum. This course must be taken concurrently with ONT
101 and/or ONT 106. The course provides students with an intensive, 15-hr per week
internship focused on understanding the role that organizations in meeting urban
challenges. Partnerships have been established with numerous organizations in which
students are able to pursue their interests while adding to solutions for community
problems. This course will give students some tools to assist in community-building
efforts and the recognition of community assests as opposed to deficits. Fall/Spring. T. Hicks.
106. Qualitative Research Methods. This course must be taken in conjunction with
Ontario 104. The course offers you an opportunity to conduct community-based research.
You begin by focusing on the importance of who sets the research agenda and the types
of questions that are asked, examining research frameworks and different methodological
approaches. You then develop and implement your own research project on a critical
community concern and present your findings. You will leave the course with a strong
foundation to carry out systematic research using focus groups, ethnography, and
person-centered interviews. Fall/Spring, T. Hicks.
ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES
ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES
Organizational Studies is an interdisciplinary course of study focusing on administrative,
economic, political, psychological, and sociological factors that affect cooperative human
systems. A major in Organizational Studies emphasizes an understanding of how
organizations operate, how they affect society, and how they change. Students are
encouraged to design a specific thematic focus to structure the depth of their study.
Students interested in public administration, business administration, public health
administration, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, labor, or sociology of
work may find this program an appropriate preparation for either career or graduate
work in these areas.
Pitzer Advisers: J. Lewis, K. Rogers. Affiliated faculty: N. Boyle, M. Federman, J. Lehman.
Requirements for the Major
Organizational Studies majors take twelve courses from three groups that provide:
breadth, core, and depth for the major. The courses include a set of four classes: one from
each of the social sciences that Organizational Studies draws upon as an interdisciplinary
field, one methods class, and seven additional classes drawn from thematic and core
courses that focus on organizational, industrial, or work-related topics. In most cases
several breadth courses will have been completed by the time a student begins to take
courses in the core.
1. Breadth
Four breadth courses are required, one from each of four fields of study:
economics, political studies, psychology, and sociology. Breadth courses are
Microeconomics (ECON 52); Comparative Politics (POST 30), Congress and the
Presidency (POST 100), or another government course relevant to the student’s
interests; Social Psychology (PSYC 103); and one course on the impact of
organizations on society, such as Economy and Society (SOC 13) or Technology
and People (SOC 25).
2. Core
Students complete five core courses. Three are required: Organizational Theory
(ORST 100), Organizational Behavior (ORST 135), and any statistical methods
course (ECON 91, POST 91, PSYC 91, or SOC 101).
Two additional core courses are chosen from those below:
Cases in Management (ORST 105), Directed Fieldwork (ORST 110),
Manufacturing Tales (ORST 120), Nature of Work (ORST 148), Social Responsibility
and the Corporation (ORST 160), Negotiating Conflict (ORST 192), Ontario
Internship program (by special arrangement), and occasional topics or seminar
courses which may be selected with the adviser, such as Organizational Studies 198.
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