
Community Development Essentials
ABOUT THIS COURSE
Examine the process of building community relationships to help communities analyze their context, identify priorities and develop a plan of action for addressing key issues. You’ll create a hands-on project to practically apply community development principles to an actual community context.
LEARN AT YOUR OWN PACE: Start this course anytime, and you’ll have 3 months to complete all coursework. A field-expert instructor will grade and share feedback on your work to guide your learning.
What you’ll learn:
- Understand the basic principles of community development.
- Acquire the skills of empowering members of a local community to assess their community context, inventory resources, and organize, design and evaluate community development programs.
- Reflect on how community development can be implemented in ways that appropriately and authentically foster Christian witness.
- Develop an attitude of empathy that will motivate you to empower communities to move toward responsible well-being.
EARN THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATE
This course is one of three courses in the Community Development Certificate series. By completing this and the other two courses in this series with a demonstrated 80% proficiency, you are eligible to apply your Certificate of Completion for 3 academic credits in a graduate degree at Crown College.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO LEARN ON CMTI:
Personal Computer: You must have access to a computer with Windows 8/10 or Mac OS X to complete the course work. Linux OS based computers will function for most online content, but you may run into some restrictions when trying to view multimedia content.
Internet Service: High-speed internet service is recommended.
CMTI Learning Management System: This course will be administered online here at cmti.crown.edu. CMTI runs on a different platform than Canvas. If you have a Crown Canvas account, please note that this login and password are NOT linked, and changing the password on one does not change your password on the other.
Microsoft Office: Students must submit assignments in Microsoft Word or PDF format unless otherwise specified in order to be graded by Crown’s instructors.
Palmer, J. J., (2016). Community development for kingdom impact: Helping people from here to eternity. Self-published [ISBN: 978-0801058455]
Additional readings are provided in the course.
Kindle and paperback versions of the text are available through Amazon.