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Help create resilient and equitable communities

Community development isn’t a one-size fits all endeavor

Community development is so much more than blueprints and zoning. It’s about cultivating spaces where people can flourish. Spaces with enough green space to play and relax. Spaces that offer economic opportunities that allow people to realize their dreams and aspirations. Places where people have access to quality, 具有文化响应性的食物, 教育, 医疗保健, 和住房. 亚洲体育博彩平台, you will learn about the power structures that shape community spaces, and how to create processes in which community members have a say in those power structures.

变化以信任的速度发生

Community development happens in the context of relationships. As practitioners, we can’t impose our own visions on communities. 而, 通过社区参与学习, students collaborate with community members and other stakeholders to understand each community’s unique strengths, and then collectively create strategies so that people’s dreams can take root and grow.

Be a partner in a community’s transformation

Grounded in principles and practices of ethical community engagement, we provide students with knowledge and skills in finance, 项目管理, 监控 & evaluation, geo-spatial analysis, and non-profit leadership. These skills are needed to be a practitioner who can be a partner and ally in a community’s transformation.

Department of Sustainability and Social Justice

Our degrees inspire you to develop equitable solutions to urgent social, 政治, 生态挑战. Through our program, students are equipped to build a more just and sustainable world.

  • 加深你的知识 社区发展的挑战
  • 培养关键技能 促进制度变革
  • 跨学科协作 to understand and address complex social-ecological challenges
  • G真实世界的经验 to build professional skills and knowledge

Critical Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:
The 社区发展 and Planning Curriculum

Required 社区发展 and Planning Courses
(选择2个单元)
  • Going Local: Concepts, Histories, and Strategies of 社区发展
  • 社区发展金融
Sustainability and Institutional Change
(2)单位
  • Sustainability Studies: Cities, Regions, Climate Change and Health
  • Social Change and Transformation: Community Power, Community Change
Skills for Social and Environmental Change
(2)单位
  • 可选以下课程:
    • 项目管理
    • 监测与评价
    • 空间分析
    • 组织的领导
Methods of Inquiry and Subject Matter Electives
(2 - 3单元)
  • Deepen your skills in Qualitative, Quantitative, or 空间分析.
  • 选修额外的选修课:
    • Planning and Zoning for 社区发展s
    • 社区需求和资源分析
    • 房屋政策及实务
    • 青年工作的基本原理
必选共同研讨会
(0.5单元)
  • 交叉分析(.5)
  • Principles and Ethics in Community Engagement (.5)
体验式学习和探究
(1 - 3单元)
  • 社区发展 & 策划工作室
  • Global Learning Collaborative in Puerto Rico
  • 实习

选择三个程序轨道

10-unit track completed in three semesters (Fall or Spring start)

12-unit research track completed in four semesters, with students conducting primary research in the summer between their two years of study (Fall start only)

12-unit practice track completed in four semesters, with students engaging in a Global Learning Collaborative, either domestically or internationally (Fall start only)

 

加入我们成功的校友

Our alumni work locally and globally to make a difference in the fields of youth and 教育, 食品安全, 城市规划, 经济适用房发展, 经济和劳动力发展, 公共卫生. They bring a focus on equity and social justice to their many and varied roles:

  • 经济事务副主任 & 员工发展, 纽约联邦储备银行
  • 固定资产总监 马赛克住宅,夏洛特,N.C.
  • 高级经理, 它是美国
  • 项目主任女孩公司. (N).Y.
  • 基金发展经理 社区建设者,波士顿,马萨诸塞州.
  • 高级规划师, 马萨诸塞州伍斯特市.
  • Director of Organizational Effectiveness, 康涅狄格州布卢姆菲尔德的Foodshare.

见见我们的专职教师

Our faculty are engaged scholars and practitioners who work with state and city governments as well as community development corporations and nonprofits. They will help you chart your career path, introducing you to internships in the community and a broad professional network.

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