Videos - Community Development Approaches

Date: Unknown
Source: YouTube
Title: Community Development Approaches
Speaker: Gregory Fulkerson

Description

Gregory Fulkerson gives an overview of the four approaches to community development.

Videos - Sustainable Community Development: From What's Wrong to What's Strong

Date: May 2016
Source: TEDxExeter
Title: Sustainable Community Development: From What's Wrong to What's Strong
Speaker: Cormac Russell, Managing Director of Nurture Development, faculty member of the ABCD Institute at Northwestern University

Description

How can we help people to live a good life? Instead of trying to right what's wrong within a community Cormac argues we need to start with what's strong. We need to help people discover what gifts they have and to use those gifts to enrich those around them. -- At TEDxExeter 2016 our speakers encapsulated the idea of movement, that grappling with humanity’s toughest questions requires first a vision, a dream, and then action.

Cormac Russell is Managing Director of Nurture Development, the leading Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) organisation in Europe, and faculty member of the ABCD Institute at Northwestern University, Illinois. He works with local communities, NGOs and governments on asset-based community development and other strengths-based approaches, in four continents. Cormac served on the UK Government’s Expert Reference Group on Community Organising and Communities First during its term in 2011-12. His book “Asset Based Community Development (ABCD): Looking Back to Look Forward” was published in 2015. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

Videos - What is Community Capacity Building?

Date: June 2016
Source: Scottish Community Development Centre
Title: What is Community Capacity Building?

Description

The Scottish Community Development Centre describes what it means to support communities to achieve the changes they want to see.

Syllabus - CRD 250: Professional Skills in Community Development

Source: University of California, Davis
Program: Department of Human & Community Development
Course: CRD 250: Professional Skills in Community Development
Instructor: Professor Michael Rios

Description

This course is designed to help Community Development students develop the practical skills needed to work professionally in community development-related organizations, in the public, nonprofit, or private sectors. Using participatory planning and design approaches, students will apply community development concepts, methods, and skills in a hands-on setting. The class also provides a learning environment for students to improve skills in community development planning, project management, collaborative teamwork, group facilitation, conflict resolution, and technical writing.

In the class, students will consider important issues in professional community development practice, including methods and ethics of initiating community projects, assessments, and participation. These topics will be addressed against a backdrop of community development theory and how theory is utilized in practice settings.

Syllabus - CRD 152: Community Development

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. 

Syllabus - CRD 1: "The Community"

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 - MCD 5010: Introduction to Community Development

Date: Fall 2019
Source: University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture
Program: Master of Community Development
Course: MCD 5010 - Introduction to Community Development
Instructor: Virginia Stanard

Description

MCD 5010 uses an intensive course format with the goal of introducing students to Detroit Mercy, MCD, and Community Development in regional Detroit. The course provides students with an introduction to the MCD values, concentrations and core courses. Course format will feature readings, guest lectures by faculty and community leaders, and exercises to reinforce learning. The course structure includes a service, sustainability, or social justice activity as well as a team project. To familiarize students with the research tools available through Detroit Mercy, a library session is included.