Community Studies
Community studies explores issues of social justice and social change as they relate to community-based organizing, community economic development, education, social and ecological movements, and activism.
This focus area will be of interest to:
- students working with community groups, the non-profit sector, social enterprises, and social economy organizations, and within public sector partnering agencies.
- those interested in Collaborative Economic Development (CED) theory and practice for social change.
- adult and distance educators interested in social transformation in local and global contexts.
To see the courses from the lists below that are being offered in upcoming semesters, please refer to the course schedule on the program website.
Foundational courses
Grouped study
| MAIS 603 | Community Development | (3) |
| MAIS 604 | Planning and Action for Community Change | (3) |
Electives
Grouped study
| EDST 630 | Transformative Learning for Social Change | (3) |
| EDST 632 | Global Education | (3) |
| EDST 645 | Curriculum: Provoking Inquiry | (3) |
| INST 511 | Indigenous Knowledge and Education | (3) |
| MAIS 610 | Organizational Perspectives: Images, Issues, Practices | (3) |
| MAIS 616 | Writing the Self: The Experience and Potential of Writing for Personal Development | (3) |
| MAIS 620 | Digital Storytelling | (3) |
| MAIS 635 | Equality in Context | (3) |
| MAIS 644 | Adult Education, Community Leadership, and the Crisis of Democracy | (3) |
| MAIS 658 | Doing Disability Differently | (3) |
| MAIS 662 | Mourning and Trauma: Theoretical and Historical Debates | (3) |
| MAIS 663 | Critical Race Theory in Global Context | (3) |
| MAIS 665 | Cultural Studies: Reflections, Democratic Possibilities, and Futures | (3) |
| MDDE 611 | Foundations of Adult Education | (3) |
| MDDE 614 | International Issues in Open and Distance Learning | (3) |
Individualized study
| ANTH 591 | Ethnobiology: Traditional Knowledge of Plants, Animals, and Land in Contemporary Global Context | (3) |
| GLST 611 | Social Movements | (3) |
| GLST 695 | Political Economy of Development – People, Processes, and Policies | (3) |
| GOVN 500 | Governance and Leadership | (3) |
| MAIS 638 | What I Tell You May Not Be True: Autobiography, Discourse Analysis, and Post-Colonialism | (3) |
| MAIS 640 | Grounded Theory, Exploration, and Beyond | (3) |
Available as a reading course
| GLST 650 | Sustainable Development in an Age of Global Change | (3) |
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