Graduate Certificate - Community Development

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This course introduces the breadth of consideration involved in community resource management. Course content includes theoretical frameworks, methodological investigation, and applied practices to enhance community development professionals’ ability to work with their communities to plan, develop, and monitor the conservation and development of the natural resources with multiple functions.

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For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university campus coordinator.
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To request accommodations for this course, contact the disability support office at your home university. You must register each semester and for each course. Read more about the Great Plains IDEA process for requesting accommodations.

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Community-based Natural Resource Management: Issues and Cases from South Asia (2007)
Menon, Ajit, Praveen Singh, Esha Shah, Sharachchandra Lele, Suhas Paranjape, and K.L. Joy
ISBN: 978-0-7619-3574-2
Publisher: Sage Publications

Understanding Climate Change: Lessons from Community-Based Approaches (2009)
Ensor, Jonathan and Rachel Berger
ISBN: 978-1-85339-683-0
Publisher: Practical Action Publishing

Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics: Human-Nature, Urban-Rural Interdependencies (2008)
Wu, JunJie, Paul W. Barkley and Bruce A. Weber, eds
ISBN: 978-1-933115-65-8
Publisher: RFF Press (Resources for the Future)

Sustainable and Resilient Communities: A Comprehensive Action Plan for Towns, Cities, and Regions (2011) - Contact professor for copy.
Coyle, Stephen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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Desire2Learn at SDState

 

Approximately 2-3 weeks before the first day of class, the SDSU campus coordinator, Sarah (Heewon) Kim, will email course access information to visiting students. 

 

Your username and password for D2L will be the same when you first log in. For example, if your name is MaryJo McCullough, then your username will be MaryJo.McCullough and your password will be MaryJo.McCullough. Usernames and passwords are case sensitive and you will be required to change your password once you have logged in.

 

If you have trouble completing any of the steps above, forget your password, or have any questions, please contact the SDState Support Desk at 605-688-6776 for assistance.

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This course does not require an exam proctor.

This course does not include synchronous components.