Graduate Certificate - Community Development

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Summer 2023 Course Information
Organizing for Community Change

Course Description
Students examine the role of civil society in community planning efforts and study the comparative approach to planning theories and approaches. Course content focuses on change within communities and the roles of government, planners, and citizens in reacting to or shaping change. Students explore current issues concerning planning and dealing with change by considering controversial practices such as covenants and land trusts, and students look at community responses to change. Students also study structure and implications of power, connections between social relationships and economic activity, and coalition building.
Contacts
Instructor

Candace May
Office: 605-688-4084
candace.may@sdstate.edu

Campus Coordinator

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Disability Support Services

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Textbooks

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Course Access
 
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Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

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