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YDEV 101 - Introduction to Youth Development
This course will provide an overview of youth development principles, contexts and practices, and will trace the evolution of the youth development field. Additionally, through contemplative practice, students will enhance their social and emotional competencies in working with youth. Students will gain a foundation in youth development while developing intrapersonal and interpersonal skills necessary to effectively handle challenging situations and to create positive learning environments and well-managed program sites.
Credits: 3
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YDEV 180 - Organization and Management of Youth Programs
This course provides students with an understanding of issues and techniques related to organization and management of youth programs.Students gain an understanding of the practices and contemporary challenges of planning in youth serving organizations.Topics include program planning; developing goals and objectives; program promotion; needs assessments; recruiting and retaining participants; recruiting, training, and supervising staff and volunteers; evaluating programs; risk management; budgeting; and facility management.
Credits: 3
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YDEV 186 - Pre-Practicum and Seminar in Youth Development
Students enrolled in this course are placedin a youth-serving agency in Springfield. Students are required to complete 30 hours of service, shadowing an agency administrator.In addition, students participate in a weekly seminar that provides a forum forcollaborative, critical inquiry based ontheir service experience.
Credits: 1-2
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YDEV 270 - Youth Development Across Contexts
The goal of Positive Youth Development is to develop multifacted programs that help youth grow into mature and successful adults. According to Ferguson (2007) PYD is an increasing popular policy, curricular, and programmatic approach that allows schools, youth servicing organizations, and community partners to infuse youth development principles throughout their programs, through various contexts. In this course, students explore these contexts through experiential and hands on learning. Through class work and relationships with community partners, students gain firsthand knowledge of positive youth development programs across various contexts.
Prerequisites & Notes
YDEV 101 - Introduction to Youth Development
Credits: 3
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YDEV 330 - Programming for Diverse Youth Populations
This course provides students with an understanding of issues and strategies related to programming for diverse youth populations. Students will develop a greater self-awareness and a deeper understanding of the complexities of ‘diversity’ as well as individual, cultural, and structural elements that constrain and promote program participation. In addition, students will identify approaches to engage and empower different groups of youth.
Credits: 3
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YDEV 387 - Pre-Internship Seminar
As the second part of a three-part internship series, students will prepare for their internships by developing skills and portfolio creation, interviewing, goal setting, project planning, and professional communication. Additionally, students will finalized or internship site in the project that they will undertake during the internship experience.
Credits: 2
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YDEV 486 - Supervised Internship in Youth Development
This course is an individually contracted, practical experience under professional supervision in a youth serving agency. It is intended to assist the student in exploring and confirming career goals, as well as to apply theory and methods outside of the classroom. Students engage in 45 clock hours of supervised internship per semester hour of credit.
Credits: 2-12
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YDEV 492 - Researching and Evaluating Youth Programs
This course develops students’ research andanalytical skills as we examinemethodological frameworks for planning andimplementing qualitative and quantitativesocial research and evaluation of youthprograms. Topics include: ethical issues;understanding research and evaluationreports; developing research and evaluationdesigns; constructing and implementing datacollection procedures; and methods ofanalyzing and sharing findings. Studentsdesign and implement their own outcomesevaluations of local youth programs.
Prerequisites & Notes
At least three Youth Development and/or Sociology courses.
Credits: 3
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Organizational Leadership |
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ORGL 671 - Ethical Leadership
The course focuses on how leaders may utilize the principles and theories of ethics to enhance performance at the individual, group and organizational levels. Participants reflect upon their own social background, culture and identity to better understand their own and others’ strengths and evolving approaches to leadership that enhance performance at the individual, group and organizational levels.
Credits: 3
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ORGL 673 - Organizational Planning and Performance Management
This course focuses on the conceptual knowledge, technical skills, and critical leadership to develop and implement an effective strategic plan. Understanding the connection between strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges within organizations as well as external environments forms the basis for successful priority setting. The relationships between organizational planning and performance management will use evaluation models to assess program outcomes.
Credits: 3
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ORGL 674 - Cultural Competence Leadership
Students develop an understanding of how culture, language, and geography influence communication. Students utilize the knowledge to examine and deduce their intercultural competence.
Credits: 3
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ORGL 678 - Advocacy and Policy Analysis
Policy formulation, policy analyses and advocacy are on the same continuum of skills necessary to lead human service organizations. Organizational leaders in the human service field need to understand the process of public policy making, its links to local, statewide and federal legislative processes. Advocates must understand how public policy is formulated, as well as having a clear grasp of the strategies to affect change. Such tactics involve determining specific advocacy activities, targeting and public education.
Credits: 3
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ORGL 680 - Negotiations and Conflict Management
This course will present the concepts, processes, strategies, and ethical issues related to the role of power and accountability is explored as impllicit or explicit exceptations to justify beliefs, feelings, and actions to others. Students will learn how to better understand the theory, processes, and practices of negotion, conflict resolution, and relationship management so that you can be a more effective negotiator in a wide variety of situations.
Credits: 3
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ORGL 682 - Fiscal Analysis and Allocation
This course focuses on the skills needed to operate an agency with multiple funding sources. The course covers budget development, cash flow management, financial projections, and the use of financial tools to evaluate the fiscal health of an organization, and its equitable resource allocations. Students analyze the influences of local, state and federal govenment policies and regulations and learn the importance of sound fiscal policies.
Credits: 3
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ORGL 684 - Shaping Organizations and Change Management
This course examines how leaders can promote the deliberate growth and development of their organizations via a change management process. Students employ basic elements of organizational analysis, organizational behavior, organizational communications, organizational change including a systemic approach and application of knowledge, and organizational development. Students will understand how organizational culture permeates all of these; and will be examined in relation to thier use by leaders to promote more effective, efficient, and social responsive organizations.
Credits: 3
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ORGL 686 - Social Entrepreneurship
This course examines how organizations and individuals establish or develop a venture to address a social or environmental problem. Students will learn the principles of social entrepreneurship. Students will review case studies to identify how to assess opportunities and construct a plan for community engagement.
Credits: 3
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ORGL 688 - Crisis Management
The focus of this course is on mitigating, coordinating and or sustaining contemporary issues, which incorporate the practical realities of leading across cultural differences and national boundaries (e.g., generational, gender, and regional). The course examines the perspectives of individual identties and backgrounds, personal motivations, as well as political and social institutions that affect or create negative or sudden events. A concentration on persuasive communication techniques, strategies and interventions are employed when one must choose to rely on influence as oppossed to formal authority. The use of case studies is employed in the course.
Credits: 3
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ORGL 689 - Research Designs and Methods
This course will examine both quantitative and qualitative methods for analyzing public policies and programs, with an emphasis placed on research strategies, designs, interpretation of results, and a number of basic statistical methods for public policy and survey research.
Credits: 3
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ORGL 690 - Graduate Capstone
This course incorporates research methods for data collection, designs, interpretations of results, and a number of basic statistical methods to perform a comprehensive analaysis of an actual organizational issue. The result is a client-based project or conference ready paper that develops appropriate methods to address said issue.
Prerequisites & Notes
RSCH 610 - Foundations and Methods of Research
Credits: 3
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