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COMS4600/5600 Volunteer Program Planning and Evaluation

(3 credit hours)

100% INTERNET

Catalog Description: 100 % Internet course

This course is designed to provide students with the basic skills necessary to design and plan volunteer programs in the nonprofit sector, and to evaluate their effectiveness. Special emphasis will be given to measuring program outcomes. Students will use WebCT to experience class interaction through Discussion Topics, live chats, small group work on case studies and class presentations. Students who have received credit for this course as an undergraduate, may not retake it for graduate credit.

Computer Readiness Information

Required Texts:

1) Measuring Program Outcomes: A Practical Approach (1996) by United Way of America

Phone order if using credit card 1-800-772-0008 Order # 0989 The price is $5.00 plus shipping.

Or send check & request to:
Sales Service/America
3680 Wheeler Avenue
Alexandria, VA 22304-5102
(1-800-772-0008)
Be sure to include the address to which product is to be shipped.

2) Eystad, Melissa. Measuring the Difference Volunteers Make. 1997.
Order online at http://www.energizeinc.com/

The following book is available in the UNT Bookstore and the on-line UNT bookstore at www.efollett.com

3) Kettner, Peter M., Maroney, Robert M., and Martin, Lawrence L. Designing and Managing Programs: An Effectiveness-Based Approach. 1990. ISBN: 0761915494

How to enroll?

Regular university admission for full college credit
Call 1-800-868-8211(undergraduates) or 1-888-868-4723 (graduates) or go to the UNT homepage and select "Future Students."

University of North Texas
Educational Consortium for Volunteerism
Pamela Sybert
PO Box 310919
Denton, TX 76203
sybert@scs.unt.edu
940-565-4417 or 940-369-8325

The Association for Volunteer Administration (AVA), the international association enhancing the competence of its members and strengthening the profession of volunteer resources management, endorses the five 100% Internet courses presented by Educational Consortium for Volunteerism at the University of North Texas.

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