EVALUATION AND PLANNING FOR COMMUNITY AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
An applied introduction to planning and evaluation for nonprofit and community-based organizations. Develop skills that can be utilized in both existing and prospective organization-level strategic planning, individual program-level planning, as well as multi-organization planning contexts. Learn how to think of evaluation as a practice, a way of thinking, and as a process integral to and interdependent with strategic and program planning.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: CSCS 300 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe and create ethical, inclusive, and culturally appropriate approaches to planning & eval that engage diverse stakeholders in a participatory process Audience: Undergraduate 2. Develop strategic plans, program plans, and evaluation frameworks that bridge short-term objectives with the longer-term goals of justice and liberation Audience: Undergraduate 3. Recognize and identify systems thinking, evidence-based evaluation, backwards design, strategic doing, and other methods for meeting the planning and evaluation needs of programs Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe and create ethical, inclusive, and culturally appropriate approaches to planning & eval that engage diverse stakeholders in a participatory process Audience: Undergraduate 2. Develop strategic plans, program plans, and evaluation frameworks that bridge short-term objectives with the longer-term goals of justice and liberation Audience: Undergraduate 3. Recognize and identify systems thinking, evidence-based evaluation, backwards design, strategic doing, and other methods for meeting the planning and evaluation needs of programs Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027