Posted: November 24, 2025
Build a toolkit you'll use long after graduation—no matter your field—and earn 3 GenEd (GS) credits toward your degree.
Enroll in CED 152 Community Development Concepts and Practice! Open to all majors!
Learn how people, places, and systems interact to shape real-world issues:
- Explore how different types of communities—cities, small towns, workplaces, student organizations, identity-based groups—make decisions and adapt to challenges.
- Examine how environmental, economic, and social forces shape community well-being, and how development approaches impact people and places in different ways.
- Discover careers that can lead to a meaningful, change-making future. This course is a great way to learn about the Community, Environment, and Development major, too!
Develop skills that translate to any major or profession:
- Critical and analytical thinking
- Collaboration and teamwork
- Global learning
- Social responsibility and ethical reasoning
- Cultural awareness
- Systems thinking
Open to all majors! Sign up for the Spring Semester course today! If you have any questions, please contact the CED advising office at 814-865-0467 or ced@psu.edu.
