Careers

  

The Community Studies major will provide excellent preparation for working in communities. This is a useful skill for non-degreed employees of community-based organizations as well as agencies and corporations that work at the community level, such as community development corporations, youth programs, and even private sector firms that need workers experienced in community-based work.

 

The combined majors offer an even more focused set of knowledge and skills. Community Studies and Planning will provide a strong foundation for work in city and town planning departments and agencies, in community development corporations, in the planning and development areas of human service agencies and in community based organizations. Similarly, those majoring in Community Studies and Human Service Delivery will be strong assets to community based service organizations and other human service agencies that work at the community level. Community organizing is at the core of the Community Studies and Organizing major, which prepares students for work organizing contexts that include community advocacy organizations, unions, community development corporations, organizations focused on political empowerment.