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Community and Economic Development
Graduate Education at Penn State
CEDEV 500: Community and Economic Development and Leadership (Offered
Fall Semesters)
This course provides an overview of the key issues involved in community
and economic development in both urban and rural settings. Course goals
are to (1) increase your theoretical and practical understanding of the
development process and (2) provide tools and frames of reference you
can use in thinking about community development issues that will
facilitate your work as a community development professional. To these
ends, CEDEV 500 has been developed to provide you with the opportunity
to become familiar with different approaches to development and to
consider their relevance for community development practice.
CEDEV 500 consists of 14 modules or weeks, all located within our
password-protected course website. This course is a synchronous course,
which means that you are part of a "cohort" or learning community. There
are regular due dates for assignments, and a fixed start and end date.
The Prerequisites: Completion of a baccalaureate degree from an
accredited institution is required.
Course learning objectives:
By the end of CEDEV 500 you should be able to:
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identify and use
conceptual and analytical
frameworks for analyzing community and economic development issues,
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discuss theories and
important concepts of development,
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identify important
public and private institutions influencing development,
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understand different
concepts of community and how they are related to different
approaches to community development and change,
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critically assess
approaches to development decision-making,
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analyze the role of
power in development, particularly who benefits and who loses,
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use research to inform
development decision-making and community development practice, and
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articulate how theories
and concepts of development and decision-making apply to community
development practice.
Required course materials:
The following
materials are required and must be purchased from MBS Direct:
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Taylor, Marilyn. 2003. Public Policy in the Community, New York: NY
Palgrave Macmillan.
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Stoecker, Randy. 2005. Research Methods for Community Change: A
Project-based Approach. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
For pricing and ordering
information please see the MBS Direct web-site at:
http://direct.mbsbooks.com/psude.htm or via telephone at
1-800-325-3252.
Additional
course readings are held on reserve at the Penn State Libraries.
Readings that are not available through the electronic reserves system
will be available on the course website for student use only.
Using the Library
Many of Penn State's library resources can be utilized from a
distance. Through the Library Resources and Services for World Campus and Distance Education Web site, you can...
- access electronic databases, and even full text articles, from the LIAS
Fast Track,
- borrow materials and have them delivered to your doorstep...or even your
desktop
- talk to reference librarians in real time using the "Virtual Reference
Service"
...and much more!
NOTE: You must have an active Penn State Access Account and be
registered with the University Libraries in order to take full
advantage of the Libraries' resources and services. Registration and
services are free!
Topics for the course
Module
1 – Welcome to the
Course
Module 2 –
What is Community Development?
Module
3 – Paradigms of Development
Module 4 –
Citizens, Government and Development
Module 5 – Conflict and Consensus Models of Society
Module 6 –
Stratification and Inequality
Module 7
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Understanding Community,
Development and Change
Module 8 –
Community Policymaking and Democracy
Module 9 –
Power and Influence in Communities
Module 10 –
International Community Development
Module 11 –
Research for Community Change Part 1
Module 12
– Research for Community Change Part II
Module 13 –
Community Development
Practice
Module 14
– Begin working on Final Project
Grading
Please refer
to the
University Grading Policy for Graduate Courses for additional
information about University grading policies.
Course
Policies
Disclaimer: Please
note that the specifics of this Course Syllabus are subject to change,
and you will be responsible for abiding by any such changes. Your
instructor will notify you of any changes.
©
2007 The Pennsylvania State
University
This is a required course in the
Postbaccalaureate Certificate in Community and Economic Development
and in the
Community and Economic
Development Masters Degree Program.
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