Collaborative Programs
Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Adult Education and Community Development —MA,
MEd
Geography
—MA
Nursing Science —MN
Planning
—MScPl
Public Health Sciences —MPH
Social Work
—MSW
The Collaborative Program in Community Development provides students with a multidisciplinary graduate education in community development. Community development involves working with community members and groups to effect positive change in the social, economic, organizational, or physical structures of a community that improve both the welfare of community members and the community's ability to direct its future.
Students must first apply to and register in one of the participating master's degree programs listed above, and then apply to the collaborative program. Students must follow a course of study acceptable to both the home unit and the collaborative program. Upon successful completion of the degree requirements of the participating home department and the collaborative program, students receive the notation “Completed Collaborative Program in
Community Development” on their transcript and parchment.
Web: www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/page/collaborative-mastersprogram-community-development-cdcp
Email: blake.poland@utoronto.ca
Telephone: (416) 978-7542
Fax: (416) 978-2087
Collaborative Program in Community Development
Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto
155 College Street, 6th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5T 3M7
Canada
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Collaborative programs are administered under the auspices of the School of Graduate Studies.
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Applicants must be accepted for admission to a participating graduate unit and comply with the admission procedures of that unit before applying to the
Collaborative Program in Community Development.
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Applicants must submit the following to the Program
Committee of the Collaborative Program in Community
Development: o A copy of the letter accepting you into one of the participating graduate units. o A resumé or curriculum vitae (CV). o A letter explaining how your program of study, your specific interests, and your career goals relate to community development (i.e., why you want to enrol in the Collaborative Program in Community
Development); maximum length: 500 words. Include reference to any relevant experience (volunteer, work, education, etc.).
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Students must register in the master's degree program through one of the participating home graduate units.
They must meet all respective degree requirements of the School of Graduate Studies and their participating home graduate unit.
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To fulfil the requirements of the Collaborative Program in
Community Development, they must complete the following: o
The core course UCS 1000H Community Development o
An additional 1.0 full-course equivalent (FCE) in the subject area of the collaborative program, to be approved by the Collaborative Program in Community
Development Director, of which at least 0.5 FCE must be external to the home graduate unit. o
Participation in a non-credit coordinating seminar on community development. o
Where required by the home degree program, a thesis or the major research paper (as designated by the home degree program) on a topic related to community development; a member of the thesis committee or the reader of the major research paper must be a faculty member associated with the collaborative program. Or

Collaborative Programs where required by the home degree program, a practicum placement with community development content as approved by the collaborative program core faculty member from that home degree program.
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Normally, the required courses listed below are taken as options within regular departmental or faculty degree requirements, not as additional courses.
UCS 1000H Community Development
Students must take an additional 1.0 FCE in the subject area of the collaborative program, to be approved by the
Collaborative Program in Community Development
Director. The following is a list of the currently approved courses; the list is reviewed annually and posted on the program website .
AEC 1102H Community Development: Innovative
Models
AEC 1104H Community Education and Organizing
AEC 1131H Special Topics in Adult Education (with approval of the Director)
AEC 1182H Nonprofits, Co-operatives and the Social
Economy
AEC 1190H Community Healing and Peacebuilding
AEC 1194H The Internet, Adult Education, and
Community Development
AEC 1408H Working with Survivors of Trauma
AEC 3119H Global Perspectives on Feminist
Education, Community Development and
Community Transformation
AEC 3131H Special Topics in Adult Education (with approval of the Director)
AEC 3182H Citizenship Learning and Participatory
Democracy
LHA 1196H Walking Together, Talking Together: The
Praxis of Reconciliation
AEC 1290H Indigenous Healing in Counselling and
Psychoeducation
AEC 1409H Creative Empowerment Work with the
Disenfranchised: Healing and Collective
Action
CHL 5112H Community Development in Health
CHL 5126H Building Community Resilience
CHL 5411H International Health
CHL 7001H Directed Reading in an Approved Field of
Community Health
SWK 4210H Promoting Empowerment: Working at the
Margins
SWK 4304H Globalization and Trans-nationalization:
Social Work Responses Locally and
Globally
SWK 4306H Process of Social Exclusion,
Marginalization, and Resistance
SWK 4422H Social Housing and Homelessness
SWK 4512H Creating Knowledge to Inform Critical
Practice
NUR 1047Y Community Participation and Health
NUR 1083H Comparative Politics of Health Policy in a
Globalizing World
JPG 1410H Institutional and Organizational Ecology
JPG 1415H Global Environmental Justice and Social
Movements
PLA 1503H Planning and Social Policy
JPG 1507H Housing and Housing Policy
JPG 1508H Planning with the Urban Poor in
Developing Countries
JPG 1512H Place, Politics and the Urban
JPG 1518H Sustainability and Urban Communities
JPG 1615H Planning the Social Economy
JPG 1812Y Planning for Change

Collaborative Programs
Geography and Program in Planning
Wakefield, Sarah - BA, MA, PhD
Leadership, Higher and Adult Education
Quarter, Jack - PhD
Nursing Science
Macdonald, Geraldine - BSN, MEd, EdD
Public Health Sciences
Poland, Blake - BA, PhD (Director)
Social Work
Hulchanski, J David - BA, MSc, PhD