What is Community Development?
Communities are a vital piece of the social life and growth of people. This discipline recognizes the relationship of social, economic, and demographic change on community viability and sustainability. Community developers have the tools to understand and integrate core concepts of the discipline in their own communities and communities that surround them.
Careers in Community Development
Why choose Community Development?
The purpose of the minor is to prepare students to integrate community development concepts into their own occupations and academic majors and take a more active role in the affairs of their own communities. This minor will expose students to both academic and experiential aspects of community and economic development. The program includes a core of community development course work and elective course work in three areas related to community and economic development - economics, business administration and social science.
Minor Requirements
Required Credits: 18
Required Courses: (6 credits)
SOC 405 Community Development
EMGT 410 Comprehensive Emergency Management Planning
Economic Electives: Select at least one course from the following: (3 credits)
AGEC 220 World Agricultural Development
AGEC 350 Agrisales
AGEC/BUSN 347 Principles of Real Estate
AGEC/BUSN 474 Cooperatives
ECON 341 Intermediate Microeconomics
ECON 461 Economic Development
ECON 470 Public Economics
ECON 472 International Trade
ECON 481 Natural Resource Economics
Business Administration Electives: Select at least one course from the following: (3 credits)
ACCT 102 Fundamentals of Accounting
ACCT 200 Elements of Accounting I
ACCT 201 Elements of Accounting II
BUSN 430 Legal and Social Environment of Business
BUSN 431 Business Law I-Contracts, Property and Torts
BUSN 432 Business Law II-Business Organization and Commercial Transactions
BUSN 487 Managerial Economics
FIN 320 Principles of Finance
FIN 410 Investment Analysis and Management
FIN 430 Management of Financial Institutions
MGMT 301 Management for Non-Business Majors
MGMT 430 Leadership in Organizations
MGMT 453 Understanding and Managing Diversity in Organizations
MGMT 470 Entrepreneurship/Small Business Management
MGMT 471 Leading the Nonprofit Organization
MRKT 301 Marketing for Non-Business Majors
MRKT 450 Marketing Research
Social Science Electives: Select at least one course from the following: (3 credits)
COMM 200 Introduction to Media Writing
COMM 472 Public Relations Campaigns
EMGT 101 Emergencies, Disasters, and Catastrophes
EMGT 264 Disaster Recovery
EMGT 461 Business Continuity and Crisis Management
GEOG 455 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
POLS 360 Principles of Public Administration
SOC 431 Environmental Sociology
SOC 439 Social Change
SOC 465 Applied Demographics
SOC/BUSN/ECON 196 Field Experience (or 296, 396, 496; no more than 3 credits)
SOC/BUSN/ECON 199 Special Topics (or 299, 399, 499; no more than 3 credits)
Select one additional course from the above categories (3 credits)
Total Credits: 18