Community Studies
Community studies explores issues of social justice and social change as they relate to community-based organizing, community economic development, education, and social movements.
This focus area will be of interest to:
- students working with community groups, the non-profit sector, social enterprises, and social economy organizations
- those interested in Collaborative Economic Development (CED) theory and practice for social change
- adult and distance educators interested in social transformation in both developed and developing world contexts
Foundational courses for Community Studies
Recommended courses within Community Studies
- ANTH 591: Ethnobiology: Traditional Knowledge of Plants, Animals, and Land in Contemporary Global Context
- EDST 630: Transformative Learning for Social Change
- EDST 632: Global Education
- EDST 645: Curriculum: Provoking Inquiry
- GSLT 611: Social Movements
- MAIS 610: Organizational Perspectives: Images, Issues, Practices
- MAIS 638: What I tell You May Not Be True: Autobiography, Discourse Analysis, and Post-Colonialism
- MAIS 640: Grounded Theory, Exploration, and Beyond
- MAIS 644: Adult Education, Community Leadership, and the Crisis of Democracy
- MDDE 611: Foundations of Adult Education
- MDDE 614: International Issues in Open and Distance Learning
Available as a reading course
- GLST 650: Sustainable Development in an Age of Global Change
- What is Globalism?
Permanently closed courses within Community Studies
- CMNS 655: Journalists and Responsibility
- MAIS 611: Transformatory Organizing
- MAIS 613: Transformatory Organizing
- MAIS 622: Advanced Feminist Theory
- POLI 580: The Politics of Cyberspace
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