Implement strategies for creating sustainable community development policies, which target improved quality of life and address important community justice and planning issues.
What is your passion? This program explores a wide range of issues related to understanding and reimagining the world:
Climate change and environmental sustainability
Community building and rebuilding
Economics and politics
International and local development
Policy creation and implementation
Social justice and poverty
War, peace and protest
This program is unique in that it addresses policy and social justice issues, with a focus on the interrelations of communities including nations, regions, cities, towns, and social movements. It emphasizes strategies for creating sustainable policies for community and international development, improved quality of life, and social justice and community planning.
This interdisciplinary major draws on faculty strengths in political science, sociology, public policy, history, communication and digital media studies, philosophy, legal studies, and economics to give you an integrated multidisciplinary background.
Career opportunities
Community organizing and outreach
Foreign service and diplomacy
Government administration and public service
Graduate studies in political science, sociology, policy studies or related disciplines
Human rights and humanitarian aid work
Law
Policy analysis in business, government or non-profit organizations
Research with government, community or charitable organizations