Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze community issues and contemporary social movements from human ecological & multicultural perspectives
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify stakeholders and describe the possibilities, values, and limitations of strategies for achieving social change objectives
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Link historical and contemporary scholarly authors as it relates to Community-Based and Action-Oriented research
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Recognize how power, privilege, and social identity influence the ways diverse individuals and groups experience (and influence) social change
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Reflect on how social identities, community contexts, and relative privilege impact the ways they experience and/or agitate for social change
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop opinions on the various career options available in nonprofit sector and community settings and be inspired by innovators and community-based leaders
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Know about varied career “paths,” career “next steps,” community & nonprofit cultures, and reflect on that knowledge
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Know more about specific areas of professional work in nonprofit sector and community organizations serving individuals, families, neighborhoods and communities via presentations, readings, and engaged dialogues
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Associate the roles and interrelationships among the three main sectors of the U.S. economy: civil society/NP, private/corporate, and public/government; and link identifying characteristics that are unique to the nonprofit sector
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe the historical development of the nonprofit sector in the United States
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Engage in the theories of NPO’s contributions to the development of civil society
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify how expectations of nonprofit contributions to collaborations and community-building can affect individual nonprofit organizations
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Identify trends currently affecting the nonprofit sector in the United States, including (but not limited to) social identity, power, privilege, partisan politics & civil discourse via traditional media and social media, nonprofit industrial complex, neoliberalism
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Articulate the context of communications planning based on several dispositions of nonprofit communications, including hospitality, gratitude, inclusion, engagement, and expressing need
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Engage in ‘best practices’ of nonprofit communications via grant-writing, donor communique, special events plans, social media and on-line strategies, and fundraising & development
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Engage in the fundamental principles of brand management, including graphic and visual design, social media strategies, print materials, and in-person communications
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify and analyze nonprofit sector “key audiences,” including: volunteers, donors, board members, community and political leaders, employees, community-based employers, religious organizations, civic clubs, government agencies, and neighborhood constituents
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Identify, analyze and evaluate components of nonprofit communications plans based on contemporary communications ‘best practices’
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Name the demographic make-up of a community nonprofit organization, with particular emphasis on its “key audiences”
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

Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically analyze philanthropy issues from a human ecology perspective
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Explore philanthropy trends such as women and giving, corporate philanthropy, diverse populations, and youth philanthropy
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Explore careers that focus on philanthropy in the nonprofit and corporate settings
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify multiple stakeholders and describe the possibilities, values, and limitations of philanthropic decisions
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Recognize the social responsibility of individuals within a community and reflect on the role of giving within civil society including corporate, international, & disaster relief philanthropy
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Share fund allocation decisions using written, oral, and visual communication
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Understand the mechanisms of social entrepreneurship
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Review legal definitions of human trafficking and understand human trafficking in historical, geographical and geopolitical contexts including migration.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Explain the scope and dynamics of human trafficking, both domestically and internationally
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Recognize the challenges in identifying and supporting victims of human trafficking and describe essential trauma-informed practices and strategies for promoting survivor agency and wellbeing.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Analyze the intersection of race/ethnicity and indigenous identity with human trafficking, both in the U.S. and in international settings, considering the perspective of the victims, the needs of survivors, as well as the demand side of trafficking.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Compare the roles of various disciplines, organizations and professionals working on anti-trafficking efforts and collaborative alliances that have the potential to confront human trafficking and bring positive social transformation.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Develop survivor informed advocacy approaches to assist trafficking victims/survivors, confront traffickers, prevent trafficking, and reduce the demand for human trafficking.
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Apply competencies, skills and approaches within one's graduate discipline that are relevant to human trafficking policy, practice and advocacy.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply theories of learning and learning diversity to the selection, use, and critique of instructional methods, strategies, instructional materials and technologies
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Compare teaching methods and strategies, traditional as well as emergent, and the conditions of their most valuable application
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Plan for the effective and regular use of assessment to improve educational delivery
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Practice a variety of core instructional skills and teaching methods and strategies in face-to-face, online, or blended learning environments
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Recognize and employ the unique dynamics of Transformative Learning, especially as it applies to community-based settings and adult learners
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Recognize the significance of learner diversity to supportive learning environments and effective instructional practices
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Relate processes of teaching and learning with other social processes of various professional settings, with special emphasis on adult learning
Audience: Undergraduate

8. Specify learning objectives and align them effectively with approaches of instruction and assessment
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Design and implement ethical, inclusive, and culturally appropriate approaches to planning and evaluation that engage a variety of stakeholders together in a participatory process
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Develop program plans that bridge short-term objectives with long-term goals of justice and equity
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Engage in reflective thinking about individual, interpersonal, and organizational power, privilege, and positionality in relation to program planning, strategic planning, and evaluation
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Explain how organizations can propagate systems of injustice and inequity through their programming if they do not address root causes
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Justify the decision to develop a new program plan, adapt an existing program, or take no action, appraising the opportunities and challenges associated with each course of action
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Translate general program planning concepts to a variety of settings, social issues, and audiences
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Research and understand fundraising & development and the historical contexts for contemporary giving trends in the nonprofit sector (locally, nationally and globally)
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Know the key principles of nonprofit fundraising and development
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Be able to develop a Case Statement for nonprofit fundraising
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Understand the importance of donor relations and donor relationship-building
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Understand and engage in the important activities of nonprofit fundraising and development, including: major gifts, annual funds, special events, online fundraising, grant writing, donor stewardship, legacy giving, capital campaigns, and more
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Understand the social change dynamic of nonprofit organizations and how to manage fundraising efforts that honor and empower stakeholder engagement and leadership
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Know the ‘best practices’ of nonprofit development program management, including: personnel development, information and data management, volunteer program management, member services, development program planning
Audience: Undergraduate

8. Learn from nonprofit leaders, donors, corporate and foundation executives, and other professionals associated with nonprofit development and fundraising work – via guest lectures and discussions (in-person and online) – in order to broaden one’s understanding of the scope of this important work
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Gain new ways of looking at and understanding familiar concepts, i.e. understanding systems, problem solving vs. management, various sectors, and the entities therein (non-profit, for-profit, and hybrid organizations)
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Expand ability to formulate, communicate, and discuss concepts of value creation/co-creation, irrespective of career path or professional aspiration
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Develop a sense of agency, leverage assets beyond immediate control, learn strategies that catalyze change, irrespective of domain
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Conceptualize, design, and iterate (using a conventional tool, e.g., a lean start-up canvas) a social enterprise model that incorporates the outcomes described above
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Define key traits, values, and skills related to leadership and community-building.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe the history of community activism, evolution of civic engagement, and role(s) of significant individuals and organizations in shaping community and civil leadership today.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Demonstrate the role(s) of -isms on community and civic leadership. More specifically, what is the role of race/gender/class/(dis)ability/religion/sexual orientation/etc. on those in leadership positions within communities and across civic groups.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Examine how leadership operates in relation to important contemporary topics including diversity, white saviorism, and social justice across communities of color, social class, etc.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Offer informed critique of today’s civil society and community leaders.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Summarize the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) and compare it to other approaches to advancing of the wellbeing of children.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Analyze and develop case studies from international settings.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Analyze case studies related to selected populations of children in the United States.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Discern and articulate their intentions for future engagement with child rights and identify and profile organizations that are doing related work.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Relate child health and human rights to the learning objectives associated with graduate/professional course of study, discuss how a rights-based approach might inform the culminating project (clerkship, thesis or dissertation), and identify professional associations and grant opportunities that link child health and human rights with their graduate specialization.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Define and analyze the concept of community, describe different types of communities, and effectively educate peers about communities where they have lived or called home.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Understand the evolving definition of global health, develop a holistic understanding of the interrelated determinants of health and wellbeing, and make connections between assets, challenges and strategies in local and global communities.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Become familiar with ways to describe and measure health status and be able to use tools and resources to describe disease burden and risk factors in national, state, city and neighborhood settings.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Compare and contrast strategies for community engagement from around the world.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Draw connections and implications for health and wellbeing across sectors using the Sustainable Development Goals, as well as other ways of knowing and conceptualizing community life.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Practice self-directed learning, perspective-taking, peer-to-peer learning and experiential learning related to the course topics.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Integrate knowledge and skills related to community-oriented global health engagement.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Identify target publications and submission requirements relevant to individual work and submit final paper for publication.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Practice reflective, ethical leadership while facilitating communication, planning skills, and fostering innovation and creativity within teams.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Design and create a grant proposal in response to an RFA/RFP that summarizes the basic elements and principles of a successful grant proposal using the language, terms, and vocabulary of a grantor, grantee, and grant writer.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify individual or organizational needs and locate appropriate granting agencies or funding sources congruent with those needs.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Apply a global lens in creating a literature review that provides the framework for an overview of knowledge on a particular subject area within a grant proposal.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Organizational management and professional development. Demonstrate knowledge and skills relevant to the structuring, operations, infrastructure, and strategy of a range of purpose-driven organizations, including nonprofit and community organizations, social enterprises, cooperatives, etc.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Ecological perspectives on community and society. Apply an ecological perspective to the third sector and the roles of a variety of types of purpose-driven organizations locally and globally; recognize and discern the context in which they do their work and have an impact on communities and other sectors. Take into account history, power dynamics, theories, global and local context, and trends.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identity, diversity, and social justice. Recognize well-being and social justice in the context of purpose-based organizations and the third sector.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the nature and role of leadership (via several models) in today’s context.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Engage in a positive, inclusive learning experience where all students are challenged and supported.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe the nature and role of community-building in today’s context.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify leadership and community-building methods and discuss their advantages and disadvantages under various circumstances,
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Identify and discuss one’s capacities and aspirations for community-building and leadership.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Discern one’s initial vocational inclinations regarding her/his future, potential and projected community leadership role(s)–professionally and personally–and how that/those role(s) may contribute to building community.
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Understand, compare, contrast and apply Leadership Models.
Audience: Undergraduate

8. Understand the resources needed –and how to access and employ those resources–to cultivate leadership in others,a key component to community-building and organizing for social change.
Audience: Undergraduate

9. Learn the basics of group roles, dynamics, and decision-making in order to function constructively in groupsettings–particularlyin community settings.
Audience: Undergraduate

10. Build an awareness of leadership issues facing our communities and society.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply human ecological perspectives at discrete levels of analysis – including individual, group, community, and society.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Recognize the influence and interconnectedness across the major sectors of society – private, public and civil/nonprofit.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Exhibit a strong capacity for sustained, high impact participation in civic life.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Recognize wellbeing and social justice as relational and positional.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Identify professional, academic and entrepreneurial options for applying wellbeing and social justice in community organizing and empowerment.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Demonstrate entry-level knowledge and skills relevant to nonprofit and community organizations.
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Exhibit the practices of a lifelong learner through the development (production, completion) and implementation of a portfolio.
Audience: Undergraduate

8. Recognize the value of being a reflective, ethical leader who cultivates others’ strengths and leadership capabilities, while exhibiting self-care and care for others.
Audience: Undergraduate

9. Create a dynamic professional portfolio, with content and format consistent with personal and vocational passions, interests, skills and strivings – exhibiting perspectives on and understandings of CSCS curricula.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Engage in professional work experiences and training in the nonprofit sector. Training and work may involve (but not be limited to) activities and tasks related to: fundraising, event planning, advertising/public relations, volunteer coordination, budgeting, human resource management, and customer service programs.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Develop analytical skills and problem‐solving competencies related to working with nonprofit agencies.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply academic knowledge to the nonprofit work environment
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Develop professional competencies in written and oral communication.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Expand awareness of career opportunities & establish professional contacts with nonprofits.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Form a learning community that integrates academic study with ongoing and iterative reflection on the lived experience and truth(s) of people, places, histories, and environments that have historically been marginalized.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Explore the meaning and history of the concept of civil society in the US and around the world, through the study and critique of canonical texts and contemporary scholars.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Review the landscape and typologies for civil society organizations in the US and around the world. Map your own past experiences in civil society and consider what kind of civil society you would like to prioritize for future engagement.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify and understand current frameworks of civic competencies that are related to building civil society.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Define your own voice and identity and relationship to civil society – consider your role as a member, leader, researcher, practitioner, and your relationship to others.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Increase capacity for civil discourse – conversational skills, clear communication, and strategies for joint learning. Identify personal strengths and goals and strategies to build skills in these areas in the future.
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Practice and develop improved written and oral communication skills needed for civil society leadership and scholarship.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate and articulate the responsibilities of a non-profit governance board including the duties of the board chair and board members by contributing time and talent to a working committee of the board.
Audience: Graduate

2. Recognize the processes and protocols used by the board to shepherd key issues through decision-making and into action by the organization.
Audience: Graduate

3. Partner with a diverse set of board members and organizational staff to develop and implement a governance-based strategy that addresses an important challenge of the organization.
Audience: Graduate

4. Articulate the ways in which boards can motivate organizations to be successful and sustainable and reflect on your board’s professional development strategy for improving their value to future board work.
Audience: Graduate

5. Utilize effective team-based and interpersonal communication skills as a means to build a professional network with a set of diverse board members and staff leaders.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Interpret and relate the key strategic and tactical issues being addressed by an organization’s board members.
Audience: Graduate

2. Partner with a diverse set of board members and organizational staff to develop and implement a governance-based strategy that addresses an important challenge of the organization.
Audience: Graduate

3. Identify and apply personal knowledge, experiences and skills that are most valued in board service that is equitable, diverse and inclusive.
Audience: Graduate

4. Utilize effective team-based and interpersonal communication skills as a means to build a professional network with a set of diverse board members and staff leaders.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Form a learning community that integrates academic study with ongoing and iterative reflection on the lived experience and truth(s) of people, places, histories, and environments that have historically been marginalized.
Audience: Graduate

2. Explore the meaning and history of the concept of civil society in the US and around the world, through the study and critique of canonical texts and contemporary scholars. We will complement these texts with scholarship that enables us to consider civil society from different perspectives.
Audience: Graduate

3. Review the landscape and typologies for civil society organizations in the US and around the world. Map your own past experiences in civil society and consider what kind of civil society you would like to prioritize for future engagement.
Audience: Graduate

4. Identify and understand current frameworks of civic competencies that are related to building civil society.
Audience: Graduate

5. Define your own voice and identity and relationship to civil society – consider your role as a member, leader, researcher, practitioner, and your relationship to others.
Audience: Graduate

6. Increase capacity for civil discourse – conversational skills, clear communication, and strategies for joint learning. Identify personal strengths and goals and strategies to build skills in these areas in the future.
Audience: Graduate

7. Practice and develop improved written and oral communication skills needed for civil society leadership and scholarship.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Become versed in a cross-disciplinary body of literature on civic engagement (CE) and its relevance for personal and community well-being
Audience: Graduate

2. Communicate their scholarship and its implications for well-being – to public and academic audiences
Audience: Graduate

3. Integrate and critique extant research and practice in their area of interest
Audience: Graduate

4. Synthesize and critique theories relevant to their scholarship
Audience: Graduate

5. Formulate a statement of aims and a testable hypothesis for their area of interest
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Build an understanding of the roles that power plays inproducing social problems and social injustices.
Audience: Graduate

2. Make linkages among contemporary social structures and power differentials between and within communities and articulate them in relation to community-based interventions and research.
Audience: Graduate

3. Deepen capacity for thinking about social power in strategic ways for galvanizing social action and bringing about changes that enhance community wellbeing and social justice.
Audience: Graduate

4. Critically assess various strategies for building power incommunities and taking collective action.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Examine the different approaches to doing research in communities
Audience: Graduate

2. Think critically about the relationship between researchers and those for whom the research is being done (i.e., the academy and the community)
Audience: Graduate

3. Gain the skills and knowledge necessary to successfully conduct research that is responsive to community needs
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Design research intended to produce or influence desirable social/community impacts.
Audience: Graduate

2. Apply the philosophical underpinnings of action research and mixed methods research.
Audience: Graduate

3. Build a critical understanding of multiple uses of evidence, forms of validity, and communication and dissemination techniques.
Audience: Graduate

4. Blend and apply multiple research methods in sequence or tandem.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Use terminology and apply concepts common to transformative evaluation practice;
Audience: Graduate

2. Build skills to create effective and equitable partnerships with community organizations that want to evaluate program(s) or services;
Audience: Graduate

3. Develop capacity to assess an evaluation’s context and determine an approach and design for the evaluation using a transformative lens;
Audience: Graduate

4. Apply program evaluation standards and ethical guidelines in the development, design, conduct and reporting of an evaluation;
Audience: Graduate

5. Appropriately select and utilize qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods approaches to collect and analyze data; and
Audience: Graduate

6. Acquire skills and tools to effectively communicate with and engage stakeholders throughout the evaluation process.
Audience: Graduate