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Community studies curricula are often centered on the "concerns" of communities. These include mental and physical health, stress, addiction, AIDS, racism, immigration, ethnicity, gender, identity, sexuality, the environment, crime, deviance, delinquency, family problems, social competence, poverty, homelessness and other psycho-social aspects. Understanding the socio-cultural completeness and the anthropological ramifications of the accurate analysis of community health is key to the sphere of these studies.[3]
Another focus of curricula in community studies is upon anthropology,
Community studies have been linked to the causes of social justice, promoting peace and nonviolence and working towards social change, often within an activist framework.[5]
Schools with Community studies concentrations
- Urban and Community Studies at the University of Connecticut
- Community Studies Program at the University of Colorado Boulder.
- Urban and Community Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
- College of Community and Public Service at the University of Massachusetts Boston
- Child, Family and Community Studies Integrated Curriculum Courses at Douglas College (BC, Canada)
- Center for Community Studies at Peabody College-Vanderbilt
- The Centre for Urban and Community Studies at the University of Toronto
- Institute of Health and Community Studies at Bournemouth University (UK)
- Pan African Center for Community Studies at the University of Akron
- Department of Educational Policy & Community Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
- Integrative Studies Concentrations - Community at George Mason University
- Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies at Michigan State University
- Department of Social Policy and Education at Birkbeck, University of London (UK)
- Department of Community and Regional Development at University of California, Davis
- Center for Urban Studies at Istanbul Sehir University
- Department of Community Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz
- Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana
Notes
- ^ The University of California at Santa Cruz has an interdisciplinary Community Studies Department Archived 2006-09-04 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Examples of Community Studies programs with a particular focus: Urban and Community Studies Archived 2012-08-31 at the Wayback Machine at the University of Toronto; The Institute of Health and Community Studies Archived 2006-07-13 at the Wayback Machine at Bournemouth University, UK, and The Faculty of Child, Family and Community Studies Archived 2012-07-30 at archive.today at Douglas College, New Westminster BC, Canada.
- ^ Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, Aims and Scope
- ISBN 0-631-20566-7
- NGOin Washington, D.C.