2010-2011 Academic Catalog 
    
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2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ID 263 - Youth for Community and Development


This course integrates readings, class discussion and field observations to understand the complex relationships between youth and community development. It provides an overview of adolescent development, with a specific focus on urban teens. Students are introduced to the strengths and challenges of young people growing up in inner-city neighborhoods. The course examines neighborhoods and after-school programs as particularly important contexts for youth development. Students discover that few youth-development programs address community-level factors that influence young people’s futures, and conversely, few community-development initiatives involve youth as key actors in the development process. As a final project, students develop proposals based on evidence and driven by theory to begin to fill this critical gap.

Instructor: Ms. Ross

When Offered: Offered every other year

Faculty: Laurie Ross, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of IDCE