Community Economic Development
| Course Code | CDEV-214 |
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| Lecture hours per week | 3 |
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| Course Availability | Open |
| Description | This course provides students with an analysis of the social and economic context of the practice of Community Development (CD), as it strives to strengthen local communities and create local job and economic opportunities. In this course, students will investigate the poverty and marginalization issues from both Canadian and global contexts. It will examine various programs and social entrepreneurship models from Community Economic Development (CED), social and economic justice principles. This course focuses on the realities facing by the CD practitioner, particularly as related to local growth and development in the community and ways to encourage the best use of community resources. Asset based community development will be examined along with topics such as community asset, mapping, human capital, and local labour market analysis. This course will also focus on fundraising, planning, budgeting, and project ideas based on local knowledge and leadership. It will emphases on how to build strategic partnerships with government, funders, non-profit and private sectors for CED. A variety of instructional methods and learning strategies such as case study analysis, group work, online discussion, interactive activities etc. will be utilized in the course. Course Learning Outcomes
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