Source: University of California, Davis
Program: Community & Regional Development
Course: CRD 1: “The Community”
Instructor: Eric Chu
Description
‘The Community’ is the introductory course to the Community and Regional Development major in the Department of Human Ecology at UC Davis. The course also satisfies university general education requirements in the social sciences. The course has several goals. The first is to develop your understanding of your own communities, social relationships, and personal biographies by studying relations with other social groups, social institutions, and community types. Specifically, we will explore the relationship between the issues we face in our daily lives, and the histories, social institutions, and ideologies that help shape our experiences. The course emphasizes the idea of communities as constructed and regularized social interactions and structure, i.e., the interrelationship of groups, classes, rules, norms, and institutions (e.g., family, work, religion) at the community level and beyond.
Syllabus - CRD 1: "The Community"