CIVIL SOCIETY AND COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP

CSCS 300

Learn the concepts and tools to analyze the broad environment in which nonprofits operate and assess the impact of this environment at the community and individual organizational level.

CSCS 600

Designed to demonstrate accumulated training and experience in community and nonprofit leadership. Explores how to better conceptualize, engage with, and reflect on social justice and community issues from a human ecology perspective, while also learning from prior practice and experience working with nonprofit, community- and mission-based organizations.

CSCS 775

Consistent with the values of civil society, emphasizes engagement, debate, collegiality, personal discernment, and expression. Reflect on how developing academics and practitioners can use frameworks and practices of civil society to further professional goals and civic contributions.

CSCS 345

An applied introduction to planning and evaluation for nonprofit and community-based organizations. Develop skills that can be utilized in both existing and prospective organization-level strategic planning, individual program-level planning, as well as multi-organization planning contexts. Learn how to think of evaluation as a practice, a way of thinking, and as a process integral to and interdependent with strategic and program planning.

CSCS 601

A supervised internship providing hands-on training in a professional experience in community and nonprofit leadership related fields.