FAMILIES AND HOUSEHOLDS IN COMMUNITIES

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize how markets, consumer behavior, and family dynamics are both influenced by and shape social structures and systems within their community Audience: Graduate 2. Dissect the networked systems that influence neighborhood construction as well as individual, family, and community well-being Audience: Graduate 3. Differentiate the role of key stakeholders including policymakers, business, nonprofit sector, and individuals in co-creating community Audience: Graduate 4. Investigate the complex relationship between people and systems within a community using a range of quantitative techniques (e.g., generating indices of segregation, employing spatial data visualization and regression techniques) Audience: Graduate 5. Investigate the complex relationship between people and systems within a community using a range of qualitative techniques (e.g., in-depth interviews, focus groups, photo elicitation, text analysis) Audience: Graduate 6. Incorporate community processes and contexts to develop and analyze an empirical research proposal examining the socio-spatial relationships between people and systems within a community Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize how markets, consumer behavior, and family dynamics are both influenced by and shape social structures and systems within their community Audience: Graduate 2. Dissect the networked systems that influence neighborhood construction as well as individual, family, and community well-being Audience: Graduate 3. Differentiate the role of key stakeholders including policymakers, business, nonprofit sector, and individuals in co-creating community Audience: Graduate 4. Investigate the complex relationship between people and systems within a community using a range of quantitative techniques (e.g., generating indices of segregation, employing spatial data visualization and regression techniques) Audience: Graduate 5. Investigate the complex relationship between people and systems within a community using a range of qualitative techniques (e.g., in-depth interviews, focus groups, photo elicitation, text analysis) Audience: Graduate 6. Incorporate community processes and contexts to develop and analyze an empirical research proposal examining the socio-spatial relationships between people and systems within a community Audience: Graduate