Master's Degree: Applied Community Change and Conservation

Academic Programs

Global experience shows that four principles must be present for effective community change. With these, community energy renews itself. Solutions evolve to fit a local economy, ecology, and values. Change is sustained. Local answers may then expand across entire regions. These principles are:

- Build from success

- Create partnerships of people, governments, and outside agents

- Make decisions based on evidence

- Seek outcomes of behavioral change

The SEED-SCALE framework builds from these principles and creates simple, one-page workplans. Seven tasks are repeated to generate a growing cycle of community energy. M.A. students examine SEED-SCALE processes of change through a two-year curriculum of blended learning. Each coming from his or her own defined community, a student joins an international cohort. In time, this cohort is a community of its own. Cohorts combine three modes of learning:

- Computer-based course work – internationally experienced professors help students master core concepts through comprehensive online materials

- Travel to three continents – students conduct field research, engage in classroom studies, and live together in India, Nepal, Tibet, Peru and the United States

- Practicum work – students apply and evaluate their newly acquired skills and knowledge in their own communities

FutureGenerations/Graduate School Master's Degree Program in Applied Community Change and Conservation





C O N T E N T S INTRODUCTION MASTER'S DEGREE MEET THE DEAN ACADEMIC PROGRAM > Academic Calendar Blended Learning Course Descriptions Academic Policies ADMISSIONS CURRENT STUDENTS FACULTY AND STAFF COMMUNITY WEB PROFILES MASTER'S E-NEWSLETTER COUNTRY PROGRAMS PROCESS OF CHANGE LEARNING CENTER ABOUT US NEWS ART AND INSPIRATION JOIN US CONTACT US		Academic Programs Global experience shows that four principles must be present for effective community change. With these, community energy renews itself. Solutions evolve to fit a local economy, ecology, and values. Change is sustained. Local answers may then expand across entire regions. These principles are: - Build from success - Create partnerships of people, governments, and outside agents - Make decisions based on evidence - Seek outcomes of behavioral change The SEED-SCALE framework builds from these principles and creates simple, one-page workplans. Seven tasks are repeated to generate a growing cycle of community energy. M.A. students examine SEED-SCALE processes of change through a two-year curriculum of blended learning. Each coming from his or her own defined community, a student joins an international cohort. In time, this cohort is a community of its own. Cohorts combine three modes of learning: - Computer-based course work – internationally experienced professors help students master core concepts through comprehensive online materials - Travel to three continents – students conduct field research, engage in classroom studies, and live together in India, Nepal, Tibet, Peru and the United States - Practicum work – students apply and evaluate their newly acquired skills and knowledge in their own communities



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