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 * Welcome to HEHD 800: Foundations of Youth Development Leadership!**

Hello everyone! Welcome to your HEHD 800 Wiki! Throughout this course we are going to be exploring issues related to applied positive youth development, including creating a "common language" around youth development principles, approaches, and theories. Youth development is an applied field, drawing professionals from a wide array of disciplines and professional orientations. Our goal in HEHD 800 is to provide a framework for uniting the vast and diverse perspectives that exist in the field of youth services, and to provide a "preview" of the next 11 courses in the program.

While online learning might seem to be an individual endeavor, don't be misled. While individual performance counts, we place a high premium on collaborative learning efforts in the YDL program, as this coincides with the real-world of professional practice. We believe that working together to solve problems and accomplish common goals is what good youth development leaders do, and we believe this is a key competency that needs to be modeled in our curriculum.

This site is being used to "host" the readings for the first two weeks of class for those students who do not yet have access to Blackboard. Please click on the links below to get the course syllabus, and .pdf's of the readings for the first two weeks of class (or click on the links below).





@HEHD 800 Outside Readings

Once you have access to the course Blackboard site, you can access all of your course information (syllabus, readings, assignments) by clicking on the appropriate folders in Blackboard.