IDST 343 Perspectives on Community Development
Effective December 16, 2012 to present
Meets graduation requirements for
Learning outcomes
General
- Knows the history and evolution of community development, including relationships between community organizing, community building and community development.
- Knows and can analyze different models of community development, including the "movement" and "industry" traditions.
- Understands the role of race, class and gender in community development.
- Can analyze a community development problem or opportunity, and document in a research presentation.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum
Goal 7: Human Diversity
- Understand the development of and the changing meanings of group identities in the United States' history and culture.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the individual and institutional dynamics of unequal power relations between groups in contemporary society.
- Analyze their own attitudes, behaviors, concepts and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry.
- Describe and discuss the experience and contributions (political, social, economic, etc.) of the many groups that shape American society and culture, in particular those groups that have suffered discrimination and exclusion.
- Demonstrate communication skills necessary for living and working effectively in a society with great population diversity.