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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the commitment of management and the organization as a whole to the cultural changes necessary to implement quality improvements throughout the organization. Topics include quality organization and philosophy, quality audit and ISO 9000 series, integration of functional areas, team building, management principles, quality costs, and other associated interactive facets of Total Quality Management. The main concern is to provide the student with a working knowledge of conventional TQM tools.
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1.00 Credits
An Introduction to the Community Development program. Focus is on on-line delivery methods, graduate level research and writing, and technology skills necessary for student success in the program.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a base knowledge course for students currently working with native communities. Students taking this course will develop a basic understanding within the context of community development of the diversity of tribal structures and cultures and the unique history and jurisdictional considerations of these nations.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on non-western approaches to helping native communities build their capacity. Students will learn to take a participatory, culture-centered, and strength-based approach to development.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the historical and contemporary issues related to natural resource management on Native American lands. Study will include a variety of ecological settings across Native American lands, along with an analysis of tribal sovereignty as it relates to land tenure and water rights. Arguments concerning natural resource conservation, preservation and extraction will be explored.
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1.00 Credits
Focus on contemporary issues impacting native youth including: Demographics (Criminal justice, early parenting, poverty, education, suicide and morbidity), identity formation (risky behavior and achievement opportunities), health care (diabetes, obesity, fetal alcohol), prevention activities (4H, BGC, horse clubs, running strong), and influx of youth leadership (youth-elder connections).
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1.00 Credits
Healthcare issues challenging Native communities, and strategies and practices to address those challenges. Focus on the impact of the Indian Health System, other bureaucratic systems, and current consumer practices that impact healthcare for Native peoples and the ways tribes are working to create healthier communities and improve the lifestyle of Indian people.
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1.00 Credits
Focus: the role of tribally-chartered colleges/universities in economic development within Native communities. Topics include the use of bonding/bridging social capital, the historical and contemporary case for tribally-chartered higher education, the economic impact of tribal colleges on their local economies, and opportunities/challenges of broad and diverse collaborative networks.
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3.00 Credits
Synthesis across the notion of “utility” as represented in environmental/natural resource economics, as well as the notion of “ecology” in ecological economics. Focus will be on the influence the community and ecosystem have on one another, and the potential for complementarity between the two.
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3.00 Credits
The management of natural capital as linked to other community-based actions around resource allocation and the impacts on quality of life. The literature on community-based natural resource management will be examined and alternative ways of valuing natural capital will be assessed. Contrasting theories of the role of natural capital in communities.
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