Minor in Community Studies
The Minor in Community Studies is designed to help students increase their knowledge of broad forces affecting community change such as:
- Why community development efforts succeed or fail
- How different kinds of policies are formed and their impact on local areas
- How to communicate and work with diverse groups
- How to resolve controversial local issues.
The minor is intended to help prepare students to effectively live and work in communities, both in the U.S. and abroad, and to provide them with the necessary skills to influence community development and change.
3 hours must come from:
- CRS 334 [S] Principles of Community Development
- CRS 335 [S, K] Cross-National Perspectives on Community
- CRS 336 [S] Agriculture, Environment and Community
- CRS 391 Special Topics
3 hours must come from:
- CRS 423 Fundamentals of Participatory Research
- CRS 431 [D, T] The Demographics of American Diversity
- CRS 435 Resolving Environmental Conflicts
- CRS 441 Local Impacts of Global Commodity Systems
- CRS 491 Advanced Special Topics
- CRS 499 Special Problems
- ANTH/SOC 418 Human Issues in International Development
- H D 410 Public Policy Issues Impacting Families and Individuals
12 hours may come from any of the previously listed courses as well as from:
- AG EC 320 [S, M] American Agriculture and Rural Life
- ARCH 202 [H] The Built Environment
- ES/RP 335 [M] Environmental Policy
- ES/RP486 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
- H D 205 [C] Communication in Human Relations
- NATRS 312 [S,D] Natural Resource and Society
- NATRS 438 Natural Resource and Environmental Policy and Law
- POL S 316 American Public Policy
- POL S 416 Policy Analysis
- SOC 301 Rural Sociology
- SOC 331 [S] Population, Resources, and the Future
- SOC 332 [M] Society and Environment
- SOC 424 Sociology and Public Policy
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