Graduate Certificate - Youth Development Specialist

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This course uses a strength-based or asset-based approach to community youth development and encompasses individual development (i.e. positive youth development) and adolescents’ interrelationships with their environments. Emphasis is placed on research, theory, and practice applied to communities throughout the U.S. Students will explore existing models, read theoretical and applied literature, and examine current community efforts as a basis for understanding community youth development.

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Meghan Gillette
Office: 515-294-7050
meghang@iastate.edu

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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Publication manual of the American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association
Edition: 7th edition
ISBN: 9781433832161

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Canvas at ISU

 

In the three weeks prior to the start of class, students will receive course information and access instructions via email from the Iowa State campus coordinator, Iowa State Online. 

 

The email will include instructions for how students can set up their Iowa State Net-ID and password which is needed to log into Iowa State’s Canvas system. It typically takes 1-2 business days after setting up a Net-ID before students can log into Iowa State’s Canvas. Courses may not be visible in Canvas until the first day of class.

If students experience problems registering for a Net-ID, they can contact the Iowa State Solution Center for assistance at 515-294-4000. Students will need their 9-digit ISU university ID (provided in the ISU campus coordinator email) for the Solution Center to assist them. The Solution Center is open evenings and weekends.  View the Solution Center's hours of operation.

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This course does not require an exam proctor.

This course does not include synchronous components.

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You will also need access to ThinkSpace, an online tool that this course will use. The license can be purchased through ISU's Bookstore. Instructions for how to get started with ThinkSpace will be available in Canvas, as well as in an email from ISU's Campus Coordinator, Dawn Risdal.

The following textbook will also be used in this course but does not need to be purchased because it will be available in a pdf format in Canvas: Youth Development: Principles and practices in out-of-school time settings; Witt, P.A., & Caldwell, L.L. (2018).