Social Planning Syllabus
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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - URSP 673 - URBAN STUDIES AND PLANNING PROGRAM - COMMUNITY
SOCIAL PLANNING
Instructor: Howell Baum, 1229 Architecture Building, 301-405-6792, hb36@umail.umd.edu
INTRODUCTION
This course introduces students to social planning as a perspective on society, an
approach to planning, and a repertoire of methods for helping communities develop. The
course's central purpose is to teach students how planners can take communities seriously.
Communities are social relations that matter; people interact with one another for
purposes that are important to them. They share cultures, norms for appropriate behavior,
and ways of acting. People identify with communities: they feel that what happens to
communities happens to them, and vice versa. People who are members of a community may
live near one another, as in a neighborhood, but they may not, and people who live near
one another are not necessarily members of the same community.
The course looks at what it means to think about the development of a community as a
social entity and to practice planning to promote a community's social development.
Physical or economic planners generally define "community development" as an
increase in money, employment, businesses, housing, or built structures in a geographic
area. These may be worth while, but frequently planners advocate them without being clear
what the "community" is or what it would require for its "development"
as a community. For this reason, the course starts by examining how a community works as a
social entity and what it would mean for this community to work better--that's what
development is.
After discussing what community social development involves as a planning goal, the course
looks at planning methods that can help a community develop. These include community
organizing, asset-based community development, network-building, social programming,
system change, and comprehensive community planning.
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Flinders University - Undergraduate Courses 2001
Bachelor of Social Planning (BSocPg)
flinders.edu.au/calendar/vol2/2001/ug/BSocPlan.htm
INTRODUCTION
The Bachelor of Social Planning requires three years of full-time study (or equivalent
part-time) and the honours program an additional year (or equivalent part-time). The
course is offered by the Faculty of Social Sciences.
COURSE AIMS
The course is designed to prepare students for employment as social planners and social
policy analysts within human service organisations and commercial companies. This
preparation will include the development of knowledge and skills in areas of costing,
planning and delivery of social services.
The fields of economics, social policy and human service planning are integrated within a
single degree structure in order to promote an understanding of the intricate relationship
between economic policy and social policy.
First Year ECON 1001
Introductory Macroeconomics
Introduction Microeconomics
Australian Politics: A Comparative Study
Methods of Social Planning 1A
Methods of Social Planning 1B
Introduction to Social Planning
Introduction to Sociology
Introduction to Social Analysis
Second Year ECON 2001
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
ECON 2008
Managerial Economics
Australian Government and Public Policy
Demography
Social Policy through the Lifespan
Third Year SOAD 3001
Organisations, Professions and Service Systems
Access and Equity: Social Issues in Public Policy
Public Finance
Current Issues in Australian Economic Policy
Economic Theory
Project in Social Planning
Political
Economy Of Spatial Development
City
Planning And Civil Rights
Partnerships
In Urban Planning
Basic
Social Policy and Planning
Evaluation
in Environmental Planning
How
to Think About Social Problems
Designing
Social Innovation Planning
Social Planning and community development