Master's Degree

Graduate Certificate
2019 Fall Course Info
Foundations of Community DevelopmentCommunity and Regional Economic Policy and AnalysisCommunity Development I: Principles and Strategies of Community ChangeSustainable CommunitiesCommunity Leadership and Capacity BuildingCommunity Engagement
2019 Summer Course Info
Community Development II: Organizing for Community ChangeGrantwritingImmigrants & CommunitiesElective in CD: International Development
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Course Information
Community and Regional Economic Policy and Analysis
Course Description
This course introduces concepts of communities and regions, theories of economic growth, drivers of economic growth, economic bases of communities, sources of growth or decline in communities, roles of local government and institutions, and analytical tools. The course also explores strategies for local economic development.
Contacts
Instructor

Daniela M. Mattos
Office: 402-472-1906
dmattos2@unl.edu

Campus Coordinator

For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university campus coordinator.
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Disability Support Services

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.

Textbooks

Required:Community Economics: Linking Theory and Practice
Ron Shaffer, Steve Deller, and Dave Marcoviller
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, 2004

OPTIONAL: Introduction to Community Development: Theory, Practice and Service-Learning
Jerry Robinson and Gary Green
Publisher: Sage Publications, 2011

Course Access

Canvas at UNL

Approximately two to three weeks before the first day of class, a UNL campus coordinator (Lisa King, Diane Wasser, Diane Nelson, Kelsey Sims or Melisia Bieber) will email students with information (student name, email, and NU ID) and instructions for accessing UNL classes.  Students will claim their UNL account by setting a password and security questions. Once students claim their ID, they will be able to access their courses at its.unl.edu/myunl/.  Courses may not be visible to students until the first day of class.

Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

Faculty
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– – April-Dawn Knudsen, Community Development Graduate