By Ken Loo Aggie News Writer . The class, human and community development department's Orientation to Community Resources, or CRD 47, was quickly filled to the 36-student limit with about 80 people still on the waiting list last week. The course, formerly Applied Behavioral Sciences 47, occurs this year during winter break from Dec. 14 to 17 and is open to undergraduate and graduate students of all majors. CRD 47 is an intensive four-day field experience that focuses on how individuals and organizations in San Francisco are addressing and solving community problems. It exposed me to a lot of situations and people that I never would have thought about before.
Students see what they've only read about.
During the ABS 47 course in San Francisco for summer session II, students interviewed panels of prostitutes and visited everything from soup kitchens to an almost entirely gay congregation in the Castro district. Not only financially, like a job, but it was also personally empowering. It was important to have that power. Sullivan said the class first visits various areas of the city, walking around districts like the Castro, Tenderloin and Japantown, and then goes back to find agencies that solve problems associated with issues such as hate crimes, AIDS and child care. The spring CRD 47 course will explore the Central Valley and visit cities such as Stockton, Modesto and other rural farming areas.