Cultivate and grow local economic opportunities. Volunteers work to strengthen economic infrastructure through urban planning or supporting entrepreneurs and business owners.
If you choose Community Economic Development, take three courses from the following areas:
- Business Administration
- Advertising and Public Relations
- Agribusiness
- Accounting or Finance
- Economics
- Community & Regional Planning
- Computer Science
- Graphic Design or Graphic Arts
- International Business
- Global Studies
- Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
- Communication Studies
- Entrepreneurship
- Marketing
- Management
Recommended courses:
- ANTH/GLST 474: Development in Theory and Practice
- CRPL 300: The Community and the Future
- ECON 423: Economics of the Less Developed Countries
- ECON 440: Regional Development
- ENTR 421: Identifying and Exploring Entrepreneurial Opportunity
- ENTR 423: Entrepreneurial Decision Making and Venture Development
- GIST 211: Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- GLST 415: Grant Writing and Fundraising for Social Good
- HRHA 440: Human Rights, Conflict and Community Changemaking
- MNGT 398: Fostering Entrepreneurial Creativity
- MNGT 411: Leading People and Projects
- POLS 375: Conflict and Development in Africa
And build 50 hours of related field experience through an activity such as:
- Working with businesses, organizations, or cooperatives in accounting, finance, microfinance, management, project management, budgeting, marketing, or related areas
- Starting and running your own business or other entrepreneurial activity
- Training others in computer literacy, maintenance, or repair
- Website design or online marketing
- Founding or leading a community- or school-based organization
- Interning or volunteering at a nonprofit organization focused on economic opportunity, such as Center for People, Community Action, ECHO Collective, Handspoken Fair Trade, SCORE, or Junior Achievement
- Engaging with the Center for Entrepreneurship or Engler Entrepreneurship Program
- Joining Jacht, a student-run Ad Agency, to gain valuable experience managing advertising campaigns and projects for clients