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

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Foundational courses for Community Studies

• MAIS 603: Community Development
• MAIS 604: Planning and Action for Community Change

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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?

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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