NONPROFIT SECTOR: OVERVIEW AND FOUNDATIONS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Associate the roles and interrelationships among the three main sectors of the U.S. economy: civil society/NP, private/corporate, and public/government; and link identifying characteristics that are unique to the nonprofit sector Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe the historical development of the nonprofit sector in the United States Audience: Undergraduate 3. Engage in the theories of NPO’s contributions to the development of civil society Audience: Undergraduate 4. Identify how expectations of nonprofit contributions to collaborations and community-building can affect individual nonprofit organizations Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify trends currently affecting the nonprofit sector in the United States, including (but not limited to) social identity, power, privilege, partisan politics & civil discourse via traditional media and social media, nonprofit industrial complex, neoliberalism Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Associate the roles and interrelationships among the three main sectors of the U.S. economy: civil society/NP, private/corporate, and public/government; and link identifying characteristics that are unique to the nonprofit sector Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe the historical development of the nonprofit sector in the United States Audience: Undergraduate 3. Engage in the theories of NPO’s contributions to the development of civil society Audience: Undergraduate 4. Identify how expectations of nonprofit contributions to collaborations and community-building can affect individual nonprofit organizations Audience: Undergraduate 5. Identify trends currently affecting the nonprofit sector in the United States, including (but not limited to) social identity, power, privilege, partisan politics & civil discourse via traditional media and social media, nonprofit industrial complex, neoliberalism Audience: Undergraduate