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History & Theory of Community Development

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
9/8/26 - 12/11/26
TuTh 12:30p.m. – 1:45p.m.		 Wheatley-Peters W01-0005 3 $1050 (guest students)
$0 (current students)
Date
9/8/26 - 12/11/26
Time
TuTh 12:30p.m. – 1:45p.m.
Location
Wheatley-Peters W01-0005
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$1050 (guest students)
$0 (current students)

Description

This course is an introduction to Community Development. It traces the origins of community development as process and practice. It examines the way different social actors formulate solutions to ameliorate the impact market forces, private and public policies, and other forces have had on communities and neighborhoods. The course reviews the history and theories of community development by examining the way capital (industrial, real-estate, and financial), labor, and government interact, and how their interaction is recorded in space. The course takes as its central question poverty: How it is produced in the US; the way different sectors of society have analyzed and explained it; and the ideological apparatus framing solutions to ameliorate poverty and inequality in American Society. Thus Community Development incorporates ideas, concepts and theories from Social Work, Urban Planning, the Social Sciences, and Cultural Studies.

This course is closed for registration.

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Course Details

Session

Regular Academic Session

Class Dates

9/8/2026 - 12/11/2026

Location

Wheatley-Peters W01-0005

General Ed Requirements

Social & Behavioral Sciences

Enrolled / Capacity

28 / 50

Status

Closed

Instructor

Chi-Kan Hung

Tuition*

* The tuition estimate is based on minimum, single-course cost to a new student who is a Massachusetts resident and not enrolled in a multi-course program. State residency, online/in person modality, and matriculation to a degree program may affect cost.

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