- The major offers students the opportunity to combine on- and off-campus learning. On campus, students complete topical courses and a core curriculum enabling them to identify, analyze, and help construct sites for social justice movements, nonprofit sector advocacy, public policy making, and social enterprise.
- Off campus, students spend six months participating in and analyzing the work of a social justice organization. This intensive immersion is a distinguishing feature of the community studies major.
- With the guidance of faculty and staff advisers, community studies students choose field placements related to the program’s areas of focus: health justice and economic justice.
- Past placements have included community health clinics, food justice organizations, immigrant rights centers, homeless resource and support groups, queer and transgender organizations, civil rights advocates, legal clinics, labor unions, HIV/AIDS organizations, and housing rights advocates: all pursuing a social justice mission.