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(L-R) Esther Combs (MA 2003), Annabelle Alvite, Nina Miller,
and Gabe Sam
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- RD600 Circumpolar Indigenous Leadership Symposium (3
credits)
- This course is designed as an intensive face-to-face graduate
seminar over a 10-day period. In fall 2000, it will be
held in Fairbanks. It is a cornerstone course for all
MA students in the program. The content focuses on indigenous
leadership and includes presentations by practitioners
from throughout Alaska and the circumpolar North. The
course may be repeated once as elective credit.
- RD601 Political Economy of the Circumpolar North (3
credits)
- The course provides graduate students with a comprehensive
overview of inter-relationships between rural communities
in the circumpolar North and global socio-economic, political,
and ecological systems. It highlights major theoretical
advances in our understanding of "development" in the
20th century, and uses a comparative case study approach
to understanding rapid socio-economic and cultural change
in the North.
- RD625 Community Development Strategies:
Principles & Practice (3 credits)
- This course provides graduate students with a detailed
overview of principles and strategies of community development
in rural Alaska and throughout the circumpolar North.
Through in-depth case studies, it expands on materials
and topics covered in RD undergraduate courses on community
development to explore how rural communities in diverse
cultural, political, and economic settings can build on
local assets, skills, and capacities to improve the lives
of indigenous and other Northern residents.
- RD650 Community-Based Research Methods (3 credits)
- This graduate course provides students with opportunities
for advanced exploration of community-based research
principles and practices. In the course, emphasis is placed
on developing a thorough understanding of the community
research process from conceptualization to implementation
and evaluation. It includes skill development for both
quantitative and qualitative research.
- RD651 Management Strategies for Rural Development (3
credits)
- This course provides a graduate level overview of managing
change and development among indigenous communities with
a particular emphasis on rural development in the Circumpolar
North. The course looks closely at recent management
strategies implemented in Alaska such as co-management
of renewable resources; land management of Alaska Native
corporations; cultural resource management; and the management
of Alaska Native tribal governments, corporations and
other organizations. The class utilizes comparative case studies
and effects of cultural and traditional values on management
practices in different northern socio-cultural environments.
RD652 Indigenous Organization Management (3 credits)- This course looks at the purposes, structure, and methods
of management of indigenous organizations with particular
emphasis on indigenous organizations of the North. The
management of Alaska Native organizations will be compared
with formal organizations established by indigenous peoples
in other regions of the Circumpolar North. The concept
of "indigenous management" will be reviewed, as will
perceptions of differences between leadership and management
in both western and indigenous settings.
- RD655 Circumpolar Health Issues (3 credits)
- This course provides a comprehensive overview of major
circumpolar health issues affecting Northern residents.
It includes an analysis of health and traditional healing
practices and the history of epidemic diseases in during
and after contact. It examines the emergence of chronic
diseases, problems of alcohol abuse and violence, and
efforts to combine traditional healing practices and community
healing with Western medicine. The course also provides an overview
of environmental health issues and public health infrastructure
and systems in the North.
- RD698 Applied Community Development Project (6-9 credits)
- This course is one of two options for MA students in Rural
Development:
completion of an applied community development project
OR completion of a MA thesis (RD699). The number
of credits allowed (between 6 and 9) will depend on the
nature of the student's project and must be approved
in advance by the student's graduate committee. RD698
enables the student to complete a project under the supervision
of the graduate committee.
- RD699 Thesis (6-9 credits)
- This course is one of two options for MA students in Rural
Development:
completion of an applied community development project
OR completion of a MA thesis (RD699). The number
of credits allowed (between 6 and 9) will depend on the
nature of the student's project and must be approved
in advance by the student's graduate committee. RD699
enables the student to conduct research and write a thesis
on a topic approved by the student's committee.
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