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Majors and Concentrations: Community Planning
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Innovative Learning

In the Community Planning Major students have choice and flexibility in demonstrating competencies. There are also workshops to help students demonstrate their prior learning. There are classes and workshops in new learning, where students are able to work on topics with community groups of their choice. And there are faculty-organized field projects with community organizations. Indeed, the Community Planning faculty brought the collaborative community project learning model to CPCS. With have administered projects with such organizations as:
    • Roofless Women's Action Research Mobilization
    • City Life/Vida Urbana
    • Harbor Point Tenants
    • South End/Lower Roxbury Healthy Boston Coalition
    • Welcome Project at the Somerville Mystic Housing Development
    • Boston Public Housing Tenants Policy Council
    • Massachusetts African-American Commission
    • North End Neighborhood Union
    • Roxbury Action Program
    • Mission Extension Public Housing Tenants Task Force
    • Healthcare Division of SEIU 285
    • Chinatown Housing and Land Development Task Force
    • Chelsea Commission on Hispanic Affairs
    • Roxbury Technical Assistance Project
    • Cambridge Riverside Youth Mobilization
 

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