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Community Development Online Master's Degree Program
This is a program of the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance (IDEA).
The Community Development Online Master's Degree program is one of the fastest growing programs with fifty-four students.
The program involves five participating universities: Iowa State University, Kansas State University, North Dakota State University, South Dakota State University, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and it is a program of the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance (IDEA).
Students in the program take a series of required core courses and choose electives from three specialization tracks; six hours are dedicated to the students’ capstone experience. The specialization tracks include Building Economic Capacity, Natural Resource Management, Working with Native Communities and Non-Profit Management.
This cutting edge, trans-disciplinary, inter-institutional program has been a major success since it started. To find out more information about the online community development master’s degree program, please visit: Community Development Information.
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Core Courses (required for everyone):
- Orientation to Community Development
- Community Development I: Principles and Strategies of Community Change
- Community Development II: Organizing for Community Change
- Community Analysis (Introduction to Methods)
- Community and Natural Resource Management
- Community and Regional Economic Analysis
Elective Tracks:
- Working with Native Communities
- Building Economic Capacity
- Natural Resource Management
- Non-Profit Management
For more information contact:
Cornelia Flora, Professor
107 Curtiss Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011
(515) 294-1329 or e-mail: cflora@iastate.edu
Admission Information:
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