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Health Services 572B • Community Development for Health
Extended Degree Program • Winter & Spring Quarters 2006

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Please use your course pack and the textbooks to find your reading assignments.

Texts: Meredith Minkler's Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and
Eric Klinenberg's Heat Wave. Both are available at the UW Bookstore.

Read for Module 1 (January 15): Framework & Models

• Minkler Introduction and Part 1 (Frameworks and Models, Chapters 2, 3 and 4)
• Klinenberg prologue and introduction
• Klinenberg essay, "When Chicago Baked," 9/2/05*
• Lyon L. The Community in Urban Society, chapter 1: The concept of community. 1987.

Read for Module 2 (January 22): Professional's Role

• Minkler Part II: Professional's Role (Chapters 5, 6 and 7)
• Klinenberg: Chapter 1: Dying Alone
• Geiger, H. Jack. Community-Oriented Primary Care: A Path to Community Development. AJPH 92:11 (11/02)*

Read for Module 3 (February 2): Diverse Groups

• Minkler Part V: Diverse Groups (Chapters 13, 14 and 15)
• Klinenberg: Chapter 2: Race & Place
• McIntosh P. White privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. Peace & Freedom. July/August 1989: 10-12.*
• Ture, Kwame & Charles Hamilton, "White Power: The Colonial Situation," chapter in the book, Black Power.
• Recommended: Garrow DJ. Bearing the Cross. Morrow & Co., New York. 1986. Chapter one: The Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• Recommended: Lebowitz, Fran. Fran Lebowitz on Race. Vanity Fair, p. 220-224, October 1997.

Read for Module 4 (February 19): Community Assessment

• Hardin, Garrett. The Tragedy of the Commons. 1968.*
• Skim: Delbecq, A. Chapter 3: Guidelines for Conducting NGT Meetings, Group Techniques for Program Planning.
• Minkler III (Chapters 8, 9): Community Assessment
• Klinenberg: Chapter 3: City Services

Read for Module 5 (March 5): Issue Selection

• Minkler III (Chapter 10), and Part IV (Chapters 11 & 12)
• Klinenberg: Chapter 4: Public Relations
• Putnam, R. The Prosperous Community; Social Capital and Public Life. The American Prospect, sp 1993.*
• Cottrell, L. The Competent Community. Chapter 11 of Further Explorations in Social Psychiatry. 1976.

Read for Module 6 (March 19): Tools.

• Minkler IX (Chapter 22 & 23) and Part VII (Chapters 18 & 19): Influencing Policy through Media,and the use of Arts & the Internet
• Klinenberg: Chapter 5: News Organizations

Read for Module 7 (April 2): Empowerment

• Minkler VIII (Chapter 20, 21): Empowerment
• Klinenberg: Conclusion
• Barr, Stringfellow. Note on Dialogue. St. John's College, Annapolis/Santa Fe, 1968.*

Read for Module 8 (April 16): Coalitions

• Minkler VI (Chapters 16 & 17): Coalitions
• Norden E. interview: Saul Alinsky, a candid conversation with the feisty radical organizer. Playboy. 1972

Read for Module 9 (May 14): More Tools

• Fisher R, Ury W. Getting to Yes, chapter three: Focus on Interests, Not Positions. Penguin Books. 1981.
• Kroll BS. Guide to Conducting Focus Group Research. Rainbow Research Inc. May, 1995.
• Volunteerism. Points of Light Foundation. 6/13/02. 2 pages.
• Loeb, P. Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time. Utne Reader. July-August 1999
• Chong, D. Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement. Chapter 1, and p. 107-109.

Optional (Yet Fascinating) Readings

• Galen Institute: http://www.galen.org/news/201/010901.html
• Erenreich, B. The Snarling Citizen. 1995. An Epidemic of Munchausen's Syndrome, p. 190.
• Cottrell, L. The Competent Community. Chapter 11 of Further Explorations in Social Psychiatry. 1976.
• Goeppinger, J. Community Competence: A Positive approach to Needs Assessment. American Journal of Community Psychology, 1985.
• Burbank, J. Debunking the Social Security Myth. Seattle P-I, Focus Section. 8/15/99.
• Economic Opportunity Institute fact sheet (two pages). 2002.
• Thomas-Kilman Conflict Mode instrument
• The Predictive Index: Organization Survey Checklist
• Bobo, K. Organizing for Social Change. 1991. Chapters 3-4.
• Open space technology: http://www.facilitators.com/open_space_technology_facilitation.htm Definition of Social Environment by Eliz Barnett & Michele Casper
• Definition of Social Environment by Eliz Barnett & Michele Casper
• Coburn, David. Income inequality, social cohesion and the health status of populations: the role of neo-liberalism. Social Science & medicine 51 (2000).
• Bezruchka, S. Is Our Society Making You Sick? Newsweek magazine. February 26, 2001.
• House, P. In Defense of Grass. Ballard News-Tribune, 11/22/00.
• Rogers, MB. Cold Anger: A Story of Faith and Power Politics. 1990. Chapter 11.
• Besleme K, Mullin M. Community indicators and healthy communities. National Civic Review. 1997.
• Baker B. Sustainable Community Checklist. NW Policy Center, Graduate School of Public Affairs. 1996.
• Berry, Wendell. In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World. Orion 2001. (read essay #2: The Idea of a Local Economy, pages 11-33.)
• Parker, W. The Art of Deliberation. Educational Leadership. 2/97: 18-21.
• Payne, Ruby. Speaking their Language: working with Students and Adults from Poverty. Infocus.
• Kawachi, Ichiro and Bruce Kennedy. The Health of Nations: Why Inequality is Harmful to Your Health. The New Press. 2002. Chapters 3 & 5.
• Flower J. Beyond Economics: Healthy Communities and Healthy Economies. National Civic Review. 1997.
• Hardin, Garrett. The Tragedy of the Commons. 1968.
• Kemmis, D. Community and the Politics of Place. 1990. Chapter 5, p. 44-49, & chapter 8, p. 109-118.
• Kunstler JH. Auto-Slum Nation. Speech to the 1997 Seaside Property owners Annual Meeting.
• Satel, Sally. The Indoctrinologists are Coming. Atlantic Monthly magazine, Jan 2001.
• Minkler M. Improving Health Through Community Organization, Health Behavior and Health Organization.
• Duhl LJ. Leadership in American Communities. Nat Civic Rev. 1997
• Erenreich, B. The Snarling Citizen. 1995. Maintaining the Crime Supply, p. 156.
• Tidbits: the UW's Principles of Community-Based Research; Daily Diet of Tribal Connection quiz; and Starfield, Barbara: Is equity a scientific issue?
• Mechanic, David. Rediscovering the Social Determinants of Health. Health Affairs May-June, 2000.
• Fawcett SB. Some values guiding community research and action. J Appl Behav Anal. 1991.
• Israel BA, Checkoway B, Schulz A, Zimmerman M. Health education and community empowerment: Conceptualizing & measuring perceptions of individual, organizational, & community control. Health Ed Q. 1994
• Rossi, Peter H. Evaluating Community Development Programs: Problems and Prospects. Chapter in Urban Problems and Community Development by Ronald F. Ferguson. 1999.
• Alinsky, S. Rules for Radicals. 1971. Chapter 1: The Purpose.
• Levy, J. Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa. 1975. Prologue.
• Greider, W. Who Will Tell the People? 1992. Chapter 9.
• Schwarz, J. "Research shows protests get action on the environment" University Week, Aug 19, 2004.