Course Course Summary Section 1 Content Section 1 Content Left Section 1 Content Right Credit Type: Course ACE ID: CNCS-0005 Organization's ID: POV 201 Organization: Corporation for National and Community Service Location: Classroom-based Length: (32 hours over 11 weeks) Dates Offered: 10/1/2011 - 9/30/2014 Credit Recommendation & Competencies Section 2 Content Section 2 Content Left Section 2 Content Right Level Credits (SH) Subject Lower-Division Baccalaureate 2 Sociology Description Section 3 Content Section 3 Content Left Section 3 Content Right Objective: The course objective is to help students to better understand the history, causes and consequences of poverty in the United States while developing realistic expectations about what an individual or an organization can do to reduce it. Learning Outcomes: Identify resources available for people living in poverty in your community and develop effective means for them to access those resources Create a specific profile of the people who are living in poverty in your community Define the term 'poverty' and compare the wide variety of measures that have been used to describe it Recount the history of poverty in the U.S Critique differing theories about the causes of poverty ('structural' vs. 'behavioral') and explain how the causes might fluctuate over time, geography, and individual circumstance Explain the consequences of poverty-physiological, psychological, social, cultural, and economic-on individuals, families, and communities Judge the relative effectiveness of policies and programs that have sought to reduce poverty or to develop human potential Utilize your new knowledge of poverty to help your organization build the community's capacity for change General Topics: Other ways to think about poverty, your community and the official poverty rate, behavioral versus structural explanations of poverty, exploring the connections between behavioral and structural explanations of poverty, the consequences of poverty, community development approaches, national policy and poverty, yesterday and today, how VISTAS build capacity Instruction & Assessment Section 4 Content Section 4 Content Left Section 4 Content Right Instructional Strategies: Audio Visual Materials Case Studies Practical Exercises Supplemental Materials Section 5 Content Section 5 Content Left Section 5 Content Right Section 6 Content Section 6 Content Left Section 6 Content Right Button Content Rail Content 1 Other offerings from Corporation for National and Community Service Core Supervisory Skills (CNCS-0003) Diversity in Service (CNCS-0002) Introduction to Service Learning (CNCS-0001) View All Courses Page Content