Master's Degree - Community Development

Course Information
Foundations of Community Development

Course Description
This course is an introduction to the Community Development (CD) program, discipline, and profession.
Contacts
Instructor

Stephanie Davison
sdaviso@ksu.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

International Community Development Practice
McConnell, Muia, & Clarke
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 978-0367691240

An Introduction to Community Development
Phillips & Pittman
Edition: 2nd
ISBN: 978-0415703550

Toxic Charity: How churches and charities hurt those they help and how to reverse it
Lupton
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 978-0062076212


Course Access
 
Approximately 2-3 weeks before the first day of class at K-State, the K-State campus coordinator, Ashley Schultz, will email course access instructions to visiting students for courses taught by K-State. These instructions are also available on the Visiting Students webpage at K-State. By following the course access instructions, visiting students create their K-State eID and complete the K-State Course Access Form. Students meeting all deadlines for eID creation and submission will have access to Canvas by the first day of class.

Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

University Members
Members of the Great Plains IDEA are universities accredited by a regional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Member universities recruit, admit and graduate students, teach in an academic program and contribute to the leadership and maintenance of the alliance. Membership in the alliance is a selective process that engages institutional leadership at all levels.

Alison Eddy is a student in the Dietetics program at KUMC.Great Plains IDEA has so many benefits for its students. The ability to continue my education while working full-time and growing my family has been a huge benefit for me. Earning the Student Excellence Award will greatly benefit my family as we begin our lives with our new daughter because we can use it to pay for the rest of my tuition and will not have to budget in finishing my degree.

– – Alison Eddy, Dietetics and Nutrition Master's Degree Student,
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