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Community Development Graduate Programs

Master's Degree Course Information

Sustainable Communities

University:
Kansas State University Kansas State University logo
Course Number:
CDPLN 712
Credit Hours:
3 credit hours - $622 per credit
Start/End Dates:
August 25, 2025 - December 19, 2025

Overview

Course Description

Content of this course links management of natural capital to other community-based actions around resource allocation and the impacts on quality of life. Students examine literature on community-based natural resource management and assess alternative ways of valuing natural capital. Students contrast theories of natural capital in communities and human society as the theories relate to community sustainability with regard to economic vitality, social well-being, and ecosystem health.

Contacts

Instructor

Amy Piedalue
piedalue@k-state.edu

Campus Coordinator

For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university campus coordinator.

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Disability Support Services

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Textbooks

The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval (Students can access the free eBook via the K-State Library; see the comment section below for more information).
Daniel Lerch
Edition: 2017
ISBN: 978-1-61091-860-2

Resilience for All: Striving for Equity through Community Driven Design
Barbara Brown Wilson
Edition: 2017
ISBN: 978-161098923

Thinking in Systems: A Primer
Donella H. Meadows
Edition: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-60358-055-7

Course Access

 
Approximately 2-3 weeks before the first day of class at K-State, the K-State campus coordinator, Ashley Schultz, will email course access instructions to visiting students for courses taught by K-State. These instructions are also available on the Visiting Students webpage at K-State. By following the course access instructions, visiting students create their K-State eID and complete the K-State Course Access Form. Students meeting all deadlines for eID creation and submission will have access to Canvas by the first day of class.

Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

Comments

Textbooks

The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval, 978-1-61091-860-2, Daniel Lerch, 2017. Students may access the free ebook via the K-State Library. 

Resilience for All: Striving for Equity through Community Driven Design, 978-161098923, Barbara Brown Wilson, 2017. 

Thinking in Systems: A Primer, 978-1-60358-055-7, Donella Meadows, 2008. 

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