The Graduate Certificate in Community Advocacy for non-profit organizations is designed to meet the graduate educational needs of students preparing to become leaders of community activism or to become change agents for public policy. It responds to a specific need stated by leaders of several non-profit organizations - to bring together existing courses into a concentration that focuses exclusively on challenging and building community awareness, a need made more acute with the re-emergence of grassroots mobilization as a key component to community advocacy.
- 6-course (18-credit-hour)
- Classes meet Monday through Thursday evenings
- Certificate can be completed in as little as two semesters; the usual student takes two courses a semester, and finishes in one year
- Coursework completed in the certificate program can be applied to the Master's Degree in Political Management
The centrality of grassroots participation by individuals in the political process to affect substantive change in the body politic or commonweal has recently re-merged. This recognition faded somewhat in the mid-twentieth century as broadcast media became viewed as either the principal or even the only way to move the body politic. The re-emergence of grassroots activism is due to the success of recent political campaigns that have stressed traditional grassroots techniques buttressed by such new technologies as micro-targeting and the new media spawned by the Internet.
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