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	UC Santa Cruz - Community Studies - Faculty - Faculty
		UC Santa Cruz - Community Studies - Faculty - Faculty
		Community Studies faculty hold degrees in Sociology, Geography, Anthropology, History and Social Documentation.
		They conduct research and writing and engage in professional projects that are at the forefront of their respective fields.
	communitystudies.ucsc.edu /faculty/faculty.php?mode=focus&id=12 (333 words)

	community studies @ the informal education homepage
		One of the problems associated with community studies (and acknowledged by the writers), is that phenomena such as relationships in families, and the nature of leisure activities are viewed largely from the standpoint of their interrelationship with the activities and social relationships imposed by mining.
		That the 'representation of community in the studies was ahistorical; it relied on a model of functional equilibrium; and that it could not cope with change (Wright 1992: 202).
		Community studies were consigned for some time into an abyss of theoretical sterility by obsessive attempts to formulate precise analytical definitions.
	www.infed.org /community/b-comstd.htm (4764 words)

	About Community Studies
		Healthy, nurturing and sustainable communities are the basis of the wellbeing of individuals and families, instrumental in the quality of life of urban areas and the goal of effective public and community services.
		Communities, whether defined geographically or by the experiences or identities that formed them, are at the center of the inquiry of CPCS curriculum.
		The College offers a major in Community Studies which builds on its core requirements and offers students a multi-disciplinary, applied approach to the study of human communities.
	www.cpcs.umb.edu /undergrad/community_studies/about_community_studies.htm (220 words)

	Showcase - Community Server
		COMMUNITY SERVER in Action The National Geographic Society is one of the world's largest not-for-profit scientific and educational organizations.
		COMMUNITY SERVER in Action Community Server powers the Intel Software Network Support Forums which enables Intel to stay aware and address end-user concerns and issues as well as a means of self-help for the end-user.
		COMMUNITY SERVER in Action Condé Nast partnered with Telligent to create a vibrant online community that is focused on providing opinion leaders, basically women who are in tune with the fashion world, dubbed "mavens" (As referenced in the Malcolm Gladwell book The Tipping Point) by Lucky...
	communityserver.org /blogs/showcase (814 words)

	communitybuilders.nsw: Case Studies
		They tell what people are doing and what's working, what communities have learned from their experience and how it made a difference.
		The need for a promotional tool to introduce the concept of the Peninsula Project to the community was identified through discussions with stakeholders and community members.
		AREC is a not-for-profit member based community organisation which strives to provide a forum for the advancement of rural knowledge.
	www.communitybuilders.nsw.gov.au /stories (2883 words)

	Portland State University Studies \| Cluster: Community Studies
		This cluster explores the nature of the communities we live in, whether defined spatially (such as a neighborhood) or as a set of ties based on sharing a common interest.
		Building community has become a central debate in a number of social sciences, including sociology, political science, economics, and psychology.
		Specific themes that may be explored include (a) community and identity (community formation and change; conflict and cooperation within and between communities; balancing individualism and community; social control), (b) historical development and current conditions of the American city, and (c) balancing individual rights with community responsibility.
	www.pdx.edu /unst/sinq_communitystudies.html (227 words)

	Career & Community Studies :: The College of New Jersey
		Career and Community Studies is a college-based, liberal studies program designed to prepare students (ages 18-25) for adult life through academic rigor, career discovery and preparation and peer socialization as part of a diverse community of learners.
		Students wanting to be considered for this program must present a disability that is characterized by significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior, seeking a post-secondary experience on a college campus and requires a strong system of supports.
		The mission of the Career and Community Studies (CCS) Program at The College of New Jersey is to provide a coordinated and comprehensive course of study that includes career exploration and preparation, self awareness, discovery and personal improvement, through a framework of liberal learning and community participation.
	www.tcnj.edu /~ccs/index.html (263 words)

	HCD About Our Faculty and Staff - Sonya Salamon (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Communities as the context for daily life, matter to families.
		I am interested in the social consequences for communities of newcomers moving and fewer people being engaged in agriculture.
		Although rural trailer parks are an increasingly common as the affordable housing for rural lower-income families almost no research, until this study, looked at the impact of this often stigmatizing community type on the well-being of families and the development of children and youth of residents.
	www.hcd.uiuc.edu /about/salamon_s.html (429 words)

	Community Arts Network
		Community art is an edgy collective experience with aesthetic qualities of its own.
		Elliot Eisner and Temple Grandin are keynote speakers for "Exploring Accessibility, Inclusion and Arts Education," the VSA arts international conference, June 9-10, 2008.
		Annual study using a research-based approach to understanding the scope and importance of the arts...
	www.communityarts.net (1371 words)

	Community Studies, Arts, Monash University
		For further information students should contact the School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences.
		Community studies is offered as a minor only.
		Students complete a standard minor chosen from the units listed, including the core unit HPL2511.
	www.arts.monash.edu.au /current/study-areas/undergraduate/community-studies/index.php (89 words)

	Home - Business in the Community
		The awards, now in their 11th year, recognise the most inspiring examples of positive business impact.
		This year's Gala Dinner is on 7 July and tickets sell fast - book your place now to avoid disappointment.
		Browse through our extensive archive of best practice case studies from our member companies.
	www.bitc.org.uk (172 words)

	Community Support \| Ubuntu
		If you would rather ask questions directly to the Ubuntu Community you can access our live chat IRC channel, just join the channel #ubuntu on irc.freenode.net.
		You can also add your support question in the new tech answers which is a part of the Launchpad system.
		Here you can keep your query active until a community member offers an answer which solves your problem.
	ubuntu.com /support/communitysupport (274 words)

	University of Colorado at Boulder - INVST Community Studies
		University of Colorado at Boulder - INVST Community Studies
		Consistent with our vision for a just and sustainable world, INVST Community Studies programs develop engaged citizens and leaders who work for the benefit of humanity and the environment.
		Community Studies Electives that foster civic responsibility and leadership potential; and
	www.colorado.edu /communitystudies/index.html (97 words)

	Dickinson College - Extra Features
		Lonna Malmsheimer, a professor of American studies and the Community Studies Center director, was on campus during the accident and was instrumental in documenting the aftermath.
		The Community Studies Center, the only one of its kind on a small, liberal-arts campus, was created five years ago to support and extend student-faculty field research in the social sciences and humanities.
		In addition to the TMI project, Community Studies also sponsors the American and Global Mosaic programs, through which students have conducted interviews with residents in Steelton and Adams County, Pa., and in Patagonia, Argentina.
	www.dickinson.edu /cnExtra/detail.cfm?139 (584 words)

	Bournemouth University \| Facilities & Resources \| Careers & Placements \| Institute of Health and Community ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		DLHE - Institute of Health and Communitity Studies
		This section contains the Destination of Leavers Survey data for each course within the Institute of Health and Community Studies.
		Institute of Health and Community Studies (all courses)
	www.bournemouth.ac.uk /careers/dlhe/ihcs.html (193 words)

	Social Welfare and Community Studies degree - Coventry University
		A critical analysis of contemporary welfare provision and debates regarding the future of welfare services is underpinned by knowledge drawn from studies of community development, sociology, social policy, psychology, law and research methods.
		There are three community practice modules, one in each year of the course, designed to help you develop skills specifically related to your career aspirations.
		There is strong emphasis on areas such as research, the development of a wide range of practice, study and IT skills, core social science knowledge, and tackling the impact of social exclusion.
	www.coventry.ac.uk /courses/course-a-z/a/465 (533 words)

	Career & Community Studies :: The College of New Jersey
		Our mission is to provide a coordinated and comprehensive course of study that includes career exploration and preparation; self awareness, discovery and personal improvement, through a framework of liberal learning and community participation.
		Graduates will receive a Career and Community Studies (CCS) certificate of completion, with transcripts of all CCS credit courses and the development of a professional and digital portfolio.
		However, we will be working on an individual basis with each student to determine available support from private as well as community and state funding sources.
	www.tcnj.edu /~ccs/faq.html (603 words)

	Center for Youth Studies -COMMUNITY Center
		Why, you probably respond, social systems obviously (families, communities, schools, peers, media, etc.).
		They have discovered 40 community assets that reduce the possibility of youth being at risk.
		It sometimes seems as if community work is filled more with questions than answers.
	www.centerforyouth.org /page.aspx?id=49288 (159 words)

	Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: To 1950 (an "enhanced" biogeography bibliography)
		Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: To 1950 is a bibliography and full-text archive designed as a service to advanced students and researchers engaged in work in biogeography, biodiversity, history of science, and related studies.
		The subjects involved touch on fields ranging from ecology, conservation, systematics and physical geography, to evolutionary biology, cultural biogeography, paleobiology, and bioclimatology--but have in common a relevance to the study of geographical distribution and diversity.
		Studies in the ecological evolution of the angiosperms
	www.wku.edu /~smithch/biogeog (5281 words)

	Pan African Center for Community Studies
		The Pan African Center for Community Studies was originally established in 1973, as The Black Culture Center, in response to 1969 student protest.
		The Pan African Center for Community Studies is an innovative center, which combines the best of the academic world with the best of the social and community world.
		It also is designed to connect the University to the community making the Center a resource for those who are interested in Akron’s African American past.
	www.uakron.edu /panafrican/index.php (455 words)

	School of Applied Social Sciences : MA/PgDip in Community Studies - Durham University
		This is part of the modular postgraduate programme in the School of Applied Social Sciences.
		It will be of particular interest to qualified workers who wish to study at postgraduate level.
		Other MAs are also offered in the School in Social Work Studies and Economic and Social Research Council recognised MAs in Research Methods (Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work).
	www.dur.ac.uk /sass/sociology/postgraduate/community (345 words)

	Digital Community Studies Minor
		Digital Community Studies is a new interdisciplinary minor program in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences which provides grounding in the theory, method, and practice of community studies with an emphasis on new media and technology.
		The students work collaborative in pairs to research a community or subculture, conduct qualitative interviews of community members, film significant activities and events that reveal the shared culture of the group, and edit their footage using state-of-the-art computer software to create a short documentary account of their community.
		The video is divided into three sections: 1) the relationship between university researchers and community members, with an emphasis on community-based research as a method; 2) research and race: guidelines for researchers and IRB members; 3) IRB and minority communities: various models for understanding community needs, fears as a way to effectively assess risk
	main.uab.edu /show.asp?durki=77430 (281 words)

	Centre for Work and Community Studies (WCS)
		Labour Studies is an interdisciplinary program that draws on history, sociology, political economy, women's studies, industrial relations, and other fields in assessing the place of labour and working people in society.
		Information about the Labour Studies program, is available by downloading a PDF version of the Labour Studies brochure.
		Women's Studies can be broadly defined as the study of anything related to women, their experiences, situations, and perspectives.
	www.athabascau.ca /wcs (528 words)

	JCS, Journal of Consciousness Studies
		But, if we are to make progress in studying consciousness, we will have to think about it very clearly, and engage in serious constructive dialogues between a variety of viewpoints.
		The field of consciousness studies is at a very early stage, characterized by crude theories, most of which are unlikely to stand the test of time.
		Dan Zahavi, The Study of Consciousness and the Re-Invention of the Wheel (Vol.
	www.imprint.co.uk /jcs.html (1554 words)

	Youth and Community Studies MA
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		The MA in Youth and Community Studies is designed to meet the need for continuing professional development of established practitioners in services for young people.
		The MA has also been designed to answer the career development needs of managers and experienced youth and community workers who have substantial experience in the service, often including the management of a team of staff.
	www.brunel.ac.uk /about/acad/sse/ssecourse/SptEdpostgraduate/cdata/Youth+and+Community+Studies+MA (122 words)

	TKI - Social Science - Social Studies Community News
		The Ministry of Education is seeking feedback on the draft New Zealand curriculum, and is encouraging teachers, principals, and school communities to provide feedback by 30 November 2006.
		It is a gateway to further information about New Zealand's astronomy, geology, marine environments, ocean study and conservation, birds of sea and shore, harvesting the sea, mineral resources, recreation – sea and sky, climate and atmosphere, hot springs and geothermal energy, natural hazards and disasters, sea and air transport.
		If you wish to let us know about events, conferences, or hui that would be of interest to visitors to the social studies community then please email us.
	www.tki.org.nz /e/socialscience/socialstudies (1499 words)

	Centennial College \| Ontario's first community college
		School of AdvancementSchool of BusinessSchool of Communications, Media and DesignSchool of Community and Health StudiesSchool of Continuing Education/Part-Time StudiesSchool of Engineering Technology and Applied ScienceSchool of Hospitality, Tourism and CultureSchool of Transportation
		Centennial College offers programs in business, communications, community and health studies, general arts, English language studies, engineering technology, hospitality, tourism and transportation.
		As a large and diverse public college with four campuses across Toronto, we have a reputation for exemplary teaching, innovative programming and extensive industry partnerships.
	www.centennialcollege.ca (298 words)

	Adobe - Education community
		Adobe supports programs and partnerships that help make our education community better, stronger, and more vibrant.
		Announcing a new certification to validate entry-level digital communication skills —creating, managing, integrating, and communicating information using Adobe's dynamic multimedia, video, graphic, web, or design software.
		Learn about these exemplary educators in primary and secondary education who use Adobe products in the classroom and at the district office.
	www.adobe.com /education/community (197 words)

	University of Canberra : Education and Community Studies : About the School of Education and Community Studies
		The School of Education and Community Studies is one of the largest Schools in the University, bringing together teacher education and professional and community education.
		The School is organised around three discipline areas; Education Studies, Curriculum Studies and Community Education Studies.
		Our academic staff come from diverse backgrounds and possess a wide range of teaching expertise, allowing us to provide a good balance of practical learning and theory.
	www.canberra.edu.au /schools/ecs (235 words)

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