Source: University of California, Davis
Program: Department of Human & Community Development
Course: CRD 152: Community Development
Instructor: Dr. Catherine Brinkley
Description
This course is designed to engage students in the practices of community development while reflecting on its underpinning history and theory. The course presumes basic knowledge gained in introductory classes. First, we will explore the roles of civic engagement and social change, as well as the effects of large-scale social, political, and economic forces on local communities.
Second, we will consider the forms that community development organizations take and the functions such organizations perform.
The result of these reflections and practice will demonstrate that community development is a (never-ending) process and that the community developer is a person who neither invents the rules nor dominates in the particular circumstances of the work.