Graduate Certificate - Community Development

« Master's Degree - Community Development
2023 Summer Course Info
Organizing for Community ChangeGrantwritingImmigrants & Communities
2023 Fall Course Info
Principles and Strategies of Community ChangeFoundations of Community DevelopmentCommunity and Regional Economic Policy and AnalysisCommunity Leadership and Capacity BuildingSustainable Communities
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Summer 2023 Course Information
Immigrants & Communities
Course Description
International migration has historically impacted rural and urban communities around the world. Taking a comparative approach, this course examines community-immigrant interaction and how that influences community development and immigrant inclusion. Students read and relate theories of immigrant and community change to case studies of immigrants and communities. Students gather primary data to assess the capacity of communities to include new international immigrants. The course also examines out-migration’s effects on community development in sending communities¿in terms of their loss of human capital¿the contribution of remittances. The course further examines the overall transnationalization of such communities.
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Instructor

Weiwei Zhang
weiwei.zhang@sdstate.edu

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Textbooks

Partnering with Immigrant Communities: Action Through Literacy
Gerald Campano, María Paula Ghiso, Bethany J. Welch
Edition: First Edition
ISBN: 9780807757215
Publisher: Teachers College Press

There Goes the Neighborhood: How Communities Overcome Prejudice and Meet the Challenge of American Immigration
Ali Noorani
Edition: First Edition
ISBN: 9780807757215
Publisher: Prometheus Books

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Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

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Sarah Hidalgo Cook received the Student Excellence Award in 2021.Getting a master's degree is an opportunity I never thought I would take part in since I lost 65% of my vision in the fall of 2017. I spent over 2 years in occupational therapy to ensure that I could continue working in the transit industry that I love.  The chance to attend graduate school and work towards a degree is what I needed to begin feeling “alive” again.

Starting graduate school in the middle of the pandemic, with my husband having lost his employment due to the pandemic, and with the various health issues I have regarding my vision, I found the GP IDEA experience to be what I mentally needed to motivate me not only in my career but also in my personal life. It gave me a challenge and a purpose during the dark pandemic, and this type of motivation is what I needed to feel constructive again.

– – Sarah Hidalgo Cook, Community Development Master's Graduate,
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