College of Agriculture

Distance Education Off-Campus Course Offerings . . . . . Spring 2008

COURSE TITLE:	Non-Profit Management in Community Development
COURSE:	C Dev 524X
COURSE DESCRIPTION:	Students will gain an understanding of how non-profit organizations are run in order that they may participate more fully in community development efforts. Learning skills necessary to assist organizations to manage community development projects and programs such as budgeting, planning, personnel, facilities, volunteer management, and fundraising.
PREREQUISITES:	Graduate classification; Offered through the Great Plains IDEA consortium, students will need to contact Carrie Brus for registration information and enrollment; cbrus@iastate.edu
CREDITS:	3 graduate credits
COMPUTER REQUIREMENT:	See College of Agriculture Computer Requirements
DATES:	January 17-May 16, 2008
DELIVERY METHOD:	Web, taught by Kansas State University
TUITION:	$415 per credit
OFF-CAMPUS PROGRAM:	Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies, Community Development specialization
INSTRUCTOR:	Sandra Price; pricesan@ksu.edu
REGISTRATION DEADLINE:	January 7, 2008
TEXT:	Herman, R.D. and Assoc. eds. The Jossey-Bass Handbook of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, 2nd ed. (2005). Block, S.R., Why Non-Profits Fail (2004). Students will pick one of the following: Students interested in human services (e.g. health care, homeless, education, mental illness, etc) will be reading Diller, J.V., Cultural Diversity: A Primer for the Human Services (2007). Students interested in any other non-profit area (e.g. environmental, arts, etc) will be reading Miller, F.A. & Katz, J.H. The Inclusion Breakthrough (2002)