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Community Development Graduate Programs

Master's Degree Course Information

Grantwriting

University:
South Dakota State University South Dakota State University logo
Course Number:
CD 642
Credit Hours:
3 credit hours - $600 per credit
Start/End Dates:
May 28, 2024 - August 02, 2024

Overview

Course Description

This is a basic grant development and management course that introduces students to the grant-getting process and provides an overview of what happens after a project is funded. The following topics are part of the course: researching funding sources, generating cutting edge ideas, assessing needs, planning a project, establishing credibility, formulating a sustainable budget, designing an evaluation plan, managing the funded project, and disseminating project results. Course objectives are to establish grant development basics, to identify sources of funding information, examine the essential components of a proposal, increase comfort with grant proposal writing, and explore best practices for program management.

Contacts

Instructor

Amber Jensen
amber.l.jensen@sdstate.edu

Campus Coordinator

For course access questions, contact the teaching university’s campus coordinator. For enrollment questions, contact your home university campus coordinator.

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Disability Support Services

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Textbooks

How to Write Anything: A Guide and Reference
John J. Ruszkiewics
Edition: 5th Edition
ISBN: 978-1-3194-1279-1
Publisher: MacMillian Learning

FUNDED! Essentials of Grant Writing for the Human Services
Richard Hoefer
Edition: 2nd Edition
ISBN: 979-8-8233-2549-3
Publisher: Cognella

Course Access

 
Approximately 2-3 weeks before the first day of class, the SDSU campus coordinator, Sarah (Heewon) Kim, will email course access information to visiting students. 
 
Your username and password for D2L will be the same when you first log in. For example, if your name is MaryJo McCullough, then your username will be MaryJo.McCullough and your password will be MaryJo.McCullough. Usernames and passwords are case sensitive and you will be required to change your password once you have logged in.
 
If you have trouble completing any of the steps above, forget your password, or have any questions, please contact the SDState Support Desk at 605-688-6776 for assistance.

Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

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