Community Intervention and Change

3 credits · Peabody College - Professional

Introduction to applied community studies, including change theory, research, and intervention at multiple levels from community psychology, sociology and other disciplines. The course will help students develop a thesis, project, paper, or dissertation topic and proposal. Readings focus on meanings, types and significance of community; issues of diversity, difference, deviance, labeling, and stigma; ecological theory, research and environmental and setting/systems-level interventions; social movements; social capital and community cognitions and behaviors; stress, coping, adaptation, and social support; prevention and promotion programs and coalitions; organizational and institutional change; faith communities; community organizing, development, mobilization and social action; assessing and informing local-to-national policies; community change around the world. [3]