This course examines the basic managerial planning functions for a Not-For-Profit enterprise. Emphasis is placed on the identification and development of annual organizational activities and the preparation of a working budget for those activities. The course also examines the difference between capital campaigns and fund-raising activities. An introduction to writing proposals for both activities is also part of the course as is an introduction to Microsoft Excel as a tool to assist in financial analysis and reporting.

This course introduces students to not-for-profit management. It provides students with a historical and contemporary understanding of the creation and changing structure of not-for-profit organizations and the not-for-profit sector including factors that impact on individual clients, staff and the larger community. It includes an exploration of classical organizational theory as well as current management practices as they relate to not-for-profit organizations.

This course provides an introduction to community leadership concepts, focusing on the dynamics of civic engagement, and understanding the role and function of governmental and not-for-profit organizations in a community.

Meets MSU-Northern General Education Core Social Sciences/History (CAT IV) requirement.
Montana University System Core Course

This course provides a theoretical and historical base to non profit service and the organizational structure of non profit services in rural areas. The course emphasizes the development of skills related to service in non profit agencies and community building, and explores the dynamics of professional careers in non profit agencies.

Prerequisite: CMSV 101

This course provides an overview of social and philosophical concepts that inform leaders in community development, human services and related professional services to the community.

Identification of funding needs and priorities, researching grantgiving organizations, identification of potential funding agencies, development of proposals, preparation and submission of grant applications, techniques for approaching grant-giving organizations, responses to decisions made by granting organizations, and management of grants.

Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor.
Requirements for graduate credit are defined in the course syllabus.

Designed to explore research and practice about conflict as a process of social interaction. This course focuses on communication-oriented perspectives, key properties of conflict interaction, strategies and tactics for moving through conflict, self-regulation and third-party intervention.

This course focuses on skills and techniques related to analyzing need and proposing changes to existing or potential community-based programs. The course content introduces concepts related to analysis, integrates application of assessment techniques and use of planning tools in order to understand and assess program needs, resulting in a program development proposal.

Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of the instructor.

This course provides an overview of key concepts and skills related to evaluation process and outcomes of public sector and non-profit program. Topics focus on common qualitative and quantitative methods for data collection, work plans and timelines, budgets, and other practical issues related to both formative and summative evaluation.

Prerequisites: Junior standing or permission of the instructor; CMSV 355

This course is an examination of the professional, ethical, economic, cultural and social issues in community leadership. It is the capstone course for community leadership majors.

A planned and supervised work-learning experience extending the student’s paraprofessional experience in non-profit and/or governmental environments. Prerequisites: Junior standing and approval of advisor and cooperative education coordinator. Pass/Fail only

Prerequisites: Junior standing and approval of advisor, Dean of the College of Education, Arts, Sciences, and Nursing, and cooperative education coordinator.
Pass/Fail only

An introductory survey of the scientific discipline of psychology. Attention will be given to such standard topics as the nature of empirical, scientific research, and the learning process, intelligence, perception, personality, motivation, emotion, cognitive processes, abnormal behavior, human sexuality, psi-phenomena, major systems of psychotherapy, human growth and development, psychobiology and physiology, social psychology, memory, stress, forensic and industrial psychology. Students will be guided towards an appreciation of the six major theoretical perspectives that psychology has to offer. As psychology is intended to describe, predict, understand, and to control behavior, students should emerge from the course with an increased degree of enlightened control over their lives.

Meets MSU-Northern General Education Core Social Sciences/History (CAT IV) requirement.
Montana University System Core Course

Study of the concepts and principles of group behavior and of the impact which society has upon the programming of the mind and thought processes. Analysis of the components of culture and of the structure of society, as well as social organization and differentiation will also be emphasized. Introduces the essentials of micro sociology and macro sociology.

Meets MSU-Northern General Education Core Social Sciences/History (CAT IV) requirement
Montana University System Core Course

A study and utilization of the principles and techniques of oral communication. Problems of research, preparation, content, organization, argument, and delivery are examined.

Meets MSU-Northern General Education Core Communication (CAT I) requirement.
Montana University System Core Course

A study of the theory and application of verbal and nonverbal communication as they occur in relatively unstructured person-to-person settings.

Meets MSU-Northern General Education Core Communication (CAT I) requirement.
Montana University System Core Course

An introduction to the theory and practice of purposeful leadership and participation in group, committee, conference, and public discussion. A focus of this course will include analysis and participation in small groups, how small groups function and an examination of conflict management in small groups. Group interaction will focus on a service learning activity that has outreach components.

This course features the study of the communication process in an organizational society. This study includes an examination of contrasting theories of organization. The class will also examine the role of communication in different types of organizational structures, the impact of organizational culture and performance, and the nature of communication on different levels within the organization. Particular attention will be paid to the constituting nature of communication in contemporary organizations.

Practice in writing public relations materials such as brochures, background pieces, speeches, newsletters and press releases.