Sustainable Community Development Certificate

To earn your certificate in sustainable community development, you must complete one required course (GSLL 1501) and three additional electives (see course options below). Each course runs for five weeks and requires a minimum of 20 hours of student participation. You may take courses in any order.

Required Course

• GSLL 1501 – Approaches to Community Development

Electives (choose 3)

Spring Session I

• GSLL 1504 – Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
• GSLL 1514 – Building Climate Change Resilient Communities
• GSLL 1518 – Community-Based Food Systems
• GSLL 1522 – Participatory Water Resource Management

Spring Session II

• GSLL 1507 – Tourism and Development
• GSLL 1517 – Community-Based Organizing

Summer Session I

• GSLL 1504 – Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
• GSLL 1519 – Agroecology for Sustainable Communities
• GSLL 1524 – Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development

Summer Session II

• GSLL 1510 – Community-Based Mapping
• GSLL 1512 – Micro-Finance Projects: Sustainable Community Development and the Role of Women

Fall Session I

• GSLL 1505 – Community-Based Health
• GSLL 1509 – Development and the Politics of Empowerment

Fall Session II

• GSLL 1503 – Community Mobilization
• GSLL 1504 – Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation