Objectives

1. Design, employ, and evaluate efforts to enable positive community change.
   1a. Apply interdisciplinary social scientific concepts and methods to understand human, economic, physical, environments, and social conditions in which community change is designed and enacted.
   1b. Identify the historical, political, and social structures that shape disparities and opportunity at the local, regional, national, and global scales.
   1c. Examine and analyze the economic, political, and social institutions and processes that influence community health, well-being, and equity across scale, context, and time. 
   1d. Evaluate policy interventions and strategies that influence community well-being and use evaluation to support policy improvement.
   1e. Build professional skills to inform effective design and engage in advocacy and collective action to encourage equitable and sustainable community change.
    
2. Develop research and communication skills to facilitate collaborative dialogue.
   2a. Interpret and analyze oral information, written texts, and data sets.
   2b. Use quantitative and qualitative research skills to evaluate potential solutions to community development issues.
   2c. Employ community asset mapping, inventorying, storytelling, and other participatory methods to empower communities to take action.
   2d. Utilize data representation and visualization principles to disseminate information.
    
3. Work individually and collaboratively to create written, oral, and visual presentations to inform community change.
   3a.  Build skills necessary to work across and within diverse community settings.
   3b. Facilitate and participate in creative and effective group processes.
   3c. Work collaboratively with communities throughout the development process.
    
4. Build skills necessary for independent as well as collaborative civic and entrepreneurial action.
   4a. Facilitate processes to address points of agreement and disagreement agreement Identify and employ professional roles such as organizing, advocating, inspiring, managing, and facilitating.
   4b. Design creative alternatives to promote inclusive and sustainable communities.
   4c. Build capacity to engage constructively with civic debates and processes
    

Measurement of goal achievement

During their academic career, CRD students should complete the following in their classes (each point addresses the similarly numbered point under objectives):

1. The overarching teaching goals of the major are presented and evaluated in CRD 1 and CRD 152.
2. All goals are pursued with different emphases and pedagological styles in each upper-division class.
3. Each student will have written a number of major research papers (15 pages or more) during their educational experience (CRD 118, 140, 151, 152, 154, 158, 162, 164, 172, 176, 180).
4. Each student shall have prepared a group research paper, which was presented to an audience (CRD 164).
5. Each student shall have made a presentation of their research results (CRD 118, 140, 141, 151 voluntary presentations made be about 40% of the students; CRD 152 and 164 with invited community representatives).