COMMUNITY INITIATIVE URBAN CURRICULAR PROGRAMS
The Community Initiative has developed two curricular programs, one undergraduate and one graduate,
that focus on the problems and potentials of metropolitan areas, particularly Tampa Bay. The first, the
undergraduate Certificate in Urban Studies offers undergraduate students the opportunity to
supplement their education and training with a focus on cities. The Graduate Certificate in Community
Development allows degree and
non-degree seeking students who already posses an undergraduate degree to explore the urban
communities that have suffered from decades of disinvestment and to examine the efforts to revitalize
them. Both programs are interdisciplinary, weaving together a variety of perspectives so that students
understand the cities, their communities and the people that inhabit them, and applied, bridging the
divide between the classroom and the real world, often through service-learning projects. While neither
program offers a degree, they are both excellent ways to focus a social science academic program on a
specific set of issues or to provide the foundation for further work in a variety of professions, including urban planning, public policy, public administration, community development, social work, urban
education, etc.
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