AA/AS
Community Leadership (AAS)
Overview
Are you interested in:
- Developing your leadership and supervisory skills?
- Learning how to work more effectively with others?
- Creating successful groups?
- Making a difference in your community?
Whether you have just graduated from high school, are considering a career change, or already working in community service, this program can help you build valuable skills-such as supervising volunteers, facilitating meetings, speaking in public, organizing events, writing press releases, fundraising, and creating newsletters.In addition, you will learn to put these skills to work within diverse communities to find positive solutions to shared problems, and to effect social change at local, regional, and national levels.
The AAS in Community Leadership is designed for students who wish to transform a passion for community activism into a rewarding career. Community Leadership is one of only a handful of programs nationwide to combine hands-on community outreach with an academic study of leadership, communities, citizen influence and non-profit organization management. Because of this unique curriculum, the program is included as part of the New England Regional Student Program in all of the New England states.
Students participate in a rigorous academic program that prepares them for continued study at the baccalaureate level and beyond. With the program's experiential learning components, students gain skills such as supervising volunteers, facilitating meetings, speaking in public, organizing events, and writing.
Guided by involved faculty, students apply their knowledge to their work on campus, in schools, crisis shelters, environmental organizations, animal care facilities, nursing homes, advocacy programs, town offices, citizen groups, or other community-related organizations. By combining academic and real-world experience, students learn how to work collaboratively in leadership roles to find positive solutions to shared problems and to effect social change at local, regional, and national levels.
For more information about the AAS in Community Leadership contact:
UNH Manchester Admissions Office
Phone: 603-641-4150
Email: unhm.admissions@unh.edu
Kate Hanson, Program Director
Phone: 603-862-1064
Email: kate.hanson@unh.edu
