COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE

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Explores career pathways in community engagement, organizational development, and public service within Human Ecology professions. Features insights from professionals in social change, government, nonprofits, and grassroots movements. Examines roles, responsibilities, and challenges in community development. Covers options and guidance on advanced professional credentials and/or academic preparation.

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Specialized subject matter of current interest.

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Focus on ways in which people develop identities and commitments as members of cultural and community groups and how they exercise rights and assume responsibilities in those contexts. An ecological approach to civic development - considering characteristics of persons (age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, culture) and the opportunities, structural impediments, and challenges of social and institutional contexts for different groups. Major themes are people's collective agency in working for social change and how engaging in civic work promotes well-being. Designed to encourage a collaborative approach to learning, to articulate scholarship based on your passions for social justice, and to make your work accessible to different scholarly and public audiences.

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Enhance your collective ability to identify, describe, and analyze power and empowerment within communities and social, economic, and political systems. Enables us to more effectively and intentionally situate our praxis with regard to power and collective action. Centers on inquiries into the roles that power plays in collective action for community change and improvement, as well as the roles that it often plays in hindering such efforts and maintaining the status quo or defending elite interests.

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Develop and implement a social change project in collaboration with a community partner. Explore diverse approaches to changemaking and address systemic issues through project-based work.