Professor: Ellen Fitzpatrick
4 credits
This course is an introduction to the design and evaluation of community development initiatives, a set of skills fundamental for those interested in a career in public service or with non-profits. The course will take students through the steps of designing a program evaluation. This will include performing a needs assessment, designing an intervention, developing a theory of change, a set of evaluation questions, a plan for data collection and analysis and designing a post-program assessment for sustainability. In this process, students will develop the skills needed to write and present a professional assessment report.
Graduation Requirement: This class will fulfill a Social Science Colloquium and the US: Difference, Inequality, Agency (US) cultural literacy requirement. If the student has already taken a Social Science Colloquium, this class will fulfill both of the following requirements: an Elective Colloquium and the US: Difference, Inequality, Agency (US) cultural literacy requirement.