Exploration of communications campaigns and strategies in the agricultural sector. Students will learn how to plan and enact communications campaigns centered on agricultural issues and audiences.

Philosophy, history, and development of Cooperative Extension Service; evaluation of instructional techniques; leadership training; and practice in use of Extension methods.

This course is designed to provide an introduction to leadership. Its focus is the development of an understanding of leadership theories and styles. You will also learn strategies for successful leadership. The introduction will include: 1) historical, theoretical, and cultural perspectives of leadership, 2) leadership skills and styles and strategies for success, and 3) examination of the responsibilities of leadership.

This course examines the nuances of leadership within communities. To learn what makes an effective community leader and the role a leader plays in community action, students will explore the importance of framing ideas, mobilizing resources, and developing social capital. This course expands on theories to highlight correlation with servant leadership, community behavior, and collaborative leadership styles. Finally, working with community visioning, change and ambiguity will reinforce the need for flexibility within the community leader's toolkit.

This course focuses on using creative and entrepreneurial processes to develop innovative programming for communities in a variety of contexts. Within this theory to practice course, students will develop innovative educational programming for communities of place, practice, and interest.

Intensive study of a specialized topic in community studies. May be repeated under different subtitles.

One of the two senior capstone courses in Community and Leadership Development. Students will learn to integrate theories common to multiple social science contexts. Following critical analyses, students will learn to describe how these theories are applied within various situations. Presentations and applied research papers will be significant course components.

This course is designed for students to examine and apply theoretical and practical foundations of Experiential Education within classroom and community-based educational environments.

The purpose of this course is to provide a basic understanding of program evaluation processes, concepts, and theories and to develop expertise needed to design and conduct systematic evaluations of formal and non-formal programs. The material to be covered is applicable to a wide range of topics and disciplines, including social welfare, youth development, family studies, agriculture and the environment, community/economic development, and other formal and non-formal educational programs.

This course is an introduction to research design/methodology in social science research. The course emphasizes conceptualizing and working with the various components of a research inquiry and in particular how these components work together and strengthen the overall research design. Research methods will be discussed as one aspect of research design primarily through reading research reports and through presentations by faculty and students who will discuss this aspect of their research within the context of their overall research project.