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Community Development (Collaborative Program)

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Lead Faculty

School of Graduate Studies

Degree Programs Offered

Adult Education and Community Development– MA, MEd
Counselling Psychology – MA, MEd
Geography (Community Planning) – MScPl
Public Health Sciences (Community Health) – MHSc
Social Work – MSW
Nursing – MN (pending approval)

Overview

The Collaborative Program provides students with a multidisciplinary graduate education in community development. Community development involves working with community members and groups to effect positive change in the social, economic, organizational, or physical structures of a community that improve both the welfare of community members and the community's ability to direct its future.

Students must apply to and register in a home participating unit (i.e., one of the graduate departments or faculties listed above), and follow a course of study acceptable to both that unit and the Collaborative Program in Community Development. Applications are considered for the master’s degree programs listed above.

Contact and Address

Web: www.urbancentre.utoronto.ca/communitydevelopment.html
E-mail: urban.centre@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 416 978-2072
Fax: (416) 416 978-7162

Sarah Wakefield,
Collaborative Program in Community Development
Centre for Urban and Community Studies
University of Toronto
Suite 400, 455 Spadina Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5S 2G8
Canada

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Degree Programs

Master’s Degrees

Minimum Admission Requirements

  • Collaborative programs are administered under the auspices of the School of Graduate Studies.

  • Applicants must be accepted for admission to a participating graduate unit and comply with the admission procedures of that unit before applying to the Collaborative Program in Community Development.

  • Applicants must submit the following to the Program Committee of the Collaborative Program in Community Development:

    • a copy of the letter accepting you into one of the participating graduate units;

    • a resume or curriculum vitae;

    • a letter explaining how your program of study, your specific interests, and your career goals relate to community development (i.e. why you want to enrol in the Collaborative Program in Community Development). Maximum length: 500 words. Include reference to any relevant experience (volunteer, work, education, etc.).

Program Requirements

  • Students must register in the master's degree program through one of the participating home graduate units. They must meet all respective degree requirements of the School of Graduate Studies and their participating home graduate unit.

  • To fulfil the requirements of the Collaborative Program in Community Development, they must complete the following. Normally, the required courses listed below are taken as options within regular departmental or faculty degree requirements, not as additional courses.

    • core course UCS 1000H Community Development: Theory and Practice

    • an additional 1.0 full-course equivalent (FCE) in the subject area of the Collaborative Program, to be approved by the Collaborative Program director, of which at least 0.5 FCE must be external to the home graduate unit

    • participation in a non-credit coordinating seminar on community development

    • where required by the home degree program, either a thesis or the major research paper, as designated by the home degree program, must be on a topic related to community development. A member of the thesis committee or the reader of a major research paper must be a member of the faculty associated with the Collaborative Program.

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Courses

Core Course

UCS 1000H Community Development: Theory and Practice

Students must take 1.0 FCE in the subject area of the Collaborative Program, to be approved by the Collaborative Program director. The following is a list of the currently approved courses; list is reviewed annually and posted on the program Web site.

Adult Education

AEC 1102H Community Development: Innovative Models
AEC 1104H Community Education and Organizing
AEC 1131H Special Topics in Adult Education
AEC 3119H Global Perspectives on Feminist Education, Community Development and Community Transformation
AEC 3131H Special Topics in Adult Education
AEC 3182H Citizenship Learning and Participatory Democracy

Counselling Psychology

AEC 1275H Special Topics in Counselling Psychology
AEC 1289H Community Mental Health
AEC 1409H Creative Empowerment Work with the Disenfranchised: Healing and Collective Action
AEC 3211H Counselling and Researching in Context: Critical Perspectives on Counselling and Health Promotion Research

Planning

JPG 1421H Health in Urban Environments
PLA 1503H Planning and Social Policy
JPG 1507H Housing and Housing Policy
JPG 1508H Planning with the Urban Poor in Developing Countries
JPG 1512H Place, Politics and the Urban
JPG 1615H Planning the Social Economy

Public Health Sciences

CHL 5801H Health Promotion
CHL 7001H Directed Reading in an Approved Field of Community Health

Social Work

SWK 4210H Promoting Empowerment
SWK 4306H Process of Social Exclusion, Marginalization, and Resistance
SWK 4422H Social Housing and Homelessness
SWK 4568H Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees

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Program Committee

Jack Quarter - BA, MA, PhD - Adult Education & Counselling Psychology
Daniel Schugurensky - BEd, MEd, PhD - Adult Education & Counselling Psychology
Suzanne Stewart - BA, MA, PhD - Adult Education & Counselling Psychology
Sarah Wakefield - BA, MA, PhD - Geography (Director)
Blake Poland - BA, MA, PhD - Public Health Sciences
J David Hulchanski - BA, MSc(Pl), PhD, MCIP, Chow Yei Ching Social Work Chair in Housing - Social Work

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