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2024 Fall > UGRD > UPCD > UPCD 201

History and Theory of Community Development

Course #: UPCD 201

Description:
This course is an introduction to Community Development. It traces the origins of community development as process and practice. It examines the way different social actors formulate solutions to ameliorate the impact market forces, private and public policies, and other forces have had on communities and neighborhoods. The course reviews the history and theories of community development by examining the way capital (industrial, real-estate, and financial), labor, and government interact, and how their interaction is recorded in space. The course takes as its central question poverty: How it is produced in the US; the way different sectors of society have analyzed and explained it; and the ideological apparatus framing solutions to ameliorate poverty and inequality in American Society. Thus Community Development incorporates ideas, concepts and theories from Social Work, Urban Planning, the Social Sciences, and Cultural Studies.

Section Class Number Schedule/Time Instructor Location
01 2618 TuTh
12:30 - 1:45 pm
Hung,Chi-Kan R Wheatley W01-0004
Session: Regular
Class Dates: 09/03/2024 - 12/13/2024
Capacity: 50
Enrolled: 49
Status: Open
Credits: 3/3
Class Notes:
Pre Requisites:
Course Attributes: United States, Beacon Flex Course, Social & Behavioral Sciences
01 2618 TuTh
12:30 - 1:45 pm
Hung,Chi-Kan R BEACONFLEX
Session: Regular
Class Dates: 09/03/2024 - 12/13/2024
Capacity: 50
Enrolled: 49
Status: Open
Credits: 3/3
Class Notes:
Pre Requisites:
Course Attributes: United States, Beacon Flex Course, Social & Behavioral Sciences