HSV 401 Community Development Assessment
This advanced human services skill development course examines the organizational structure of communities and special populations. A focal aspect of this course is developing and implementing a community-based project, giving students the opportunity to develop project leadership skills, as change agents and Godly servants. Within this course students examine and initiate a social change process that addresses the human service needs of a special urban population. As a group, students will select a community to survey and complete a “needs assessment”. Students are expected to assess one of the communities in which they have completed their field experience placement. In addition, students will gain knowledge of the process to effect social change through advocacy work at all levels of society including community development, community and grassroots organizing, and local and global activism. In this course, students are oriented to think not only in terms of individual needs, but also of group and community needs while applying a biblical worldview to vulnerable populations.
Prerequisite
Senior status, including 30 credit hours within the HSV major. While not required, it is suggested that the course be taken simultaneously with HSV 410.