Graduate Certificate - Community Development

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2024 Summer Course Info
Organizing for Community ChangeGrantwritingElective in CD: GIS for Community Development
2024 Fall Course Info
Principles and Strategies of Community ChangeFoundations of Community DevelopmentCommunity and Regional Economic Policy and AnalysisSustainable CommunitiesEconomic Development and Strategies and ProgramsIntroduction to Native Community Development
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Course Information
Community Analysis: Introduction to Methods
Course Description
This course introduces research methods relevant to community development and gives attention to research ethics and inclusiveness. Course topics include how to formulate and begin research, how to collect data, and how conceptual frameworks are used to develop research questions and analyze data. The course emphasis is on strategies for reporting findings, applying findings in community action, and methods of evaluating the entire research process.
Contacts
Instructor

Huston Gibson
Office: 785-532-5961
hgibson@ksu.edu

Campus Coordinator

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Disability Support Services

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Textbooks

Research Methods in the Social Sciences
Frankfort-Nachmias and Nachmias
Edition: 8th Edition, 2015
ISBN: 978-1429233002
Publisher: Worth Publishers: New York, NY

Case Study Research
Yin
Edition: 5th Edition, 2013
ISBN: 9781452242569
Publisher: Sage Publications: Thousand Islands

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.

Faculty
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Hannah Adame's headshotAs a full-time high school Ag teacher, FFA Advisor, and two-sport coach, I excelled in the flexibility and structure of the Great Plains IDEA program. This program has allowed me to balance my school workload with my profession and responsibilities at the school. I have also benefited from the ability to apply what I am learning to my classroom and have shared my teaching experiences with classmates to create an integrated, immersive learning experience for others and myself.

– – Hannah Adame, Family and Consumer Sciences Education Graduate,
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