Theoretical Foundations of Community Studies
Graduate-level course exploring foundational and contemporary theories in community studies, focusing on race, ethnicity, gender, class, and space as intersecting factors shaping identities and social life.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2020: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Critically analyze competing theoretical frameworks of community across classical and contemporary traditions, including sociological, geographic, feminist, decolonial, and ecological perspectives.
Evaluate the intersection of race, space, and power in shaping community dynamics through frameworks such as racial formation theory, conflict theory, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and decolonial thought.
Assess the impact of settler colonialism, neoliberalism, and globalization on communities by examining the restructuring of urban and rural spaces, the role of the state, and community responses through resistance, resurgence, communing, and movement building.
Apply interdisciplinary approaches to understand community and community-based transformations, exploring how social, ecological, and psychological dimensions influence identity, cooperation, conflict, and belonging.
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2020: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=14 letter grades); Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=9 letter grades).
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Topics
- Race, ethnicity, gender, class, and space as intersecting factors shaping individual and collective identities
- Social life, social issues, and transformative change
- Racial formation theory, conflict theory, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and decolonial thought
- Impact of settler colonialism, neoliberalism, and globalization on urban and rural spaces
Skills
- Analyze competing theoretical frameworks of community across classical and contemporary traditions
- Evaluate the intersection of race, space, and power in shaping community dynamics
- Assess the impact of settler colonialism, neoliberalism, and globalization on communities
- Apply interdisciplinary approaches to understand community and community-based transformations
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