Social & Economic Development, Redevelopment: East St. Louis Seminar

3 units

This course provides a theoretical and experiential understanding of the basic forces, factors, and institutional dynamics that interact and persist to keep low-income people in poverty, generationally. Students will learn the “nuts and bolts” of how to build a depressed area and rise it to the status of an economically and socially sustainable community. Students will be taught to function in multiple roles, from consultants to city managers, and to engage with neighborhood community groups as advocates and facilitators where that need is so urgently present.