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Rural Communities and Planning Programs

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The concept of community is complex. Starting, engaging, and stabilizing a community, including its buildings and people, requires a diverse skill set. Every community presents its own unique challenges and opportunities. Postgraduate degrees offered through the OAC allow students to critically examine communities and offer solutions to the issues they face using a broad range of theories and approaches.

Graduate Programs

  • Capacity Development and Extension - M.Sc. [1]
  • International Development Studies - M.Sc. or MA* [2]
  • International Development Studies - PhD* [3]
  • Rural Planning and Development - M.Sc. or MPLAN [4]
  • Rural Studies - PhD [5]

Certificates and Continuing Education

  • Communication Process [6]

*Collaborative interdepartmental programs within the University of Guelph.

About

The Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) of the University of Guelph is internationally renowned for its research, teaching and knowledge extension. Our community has a strong sense of shared purpose: To Improve Life by inspiring leaders, generating knowledge and creating innovative solutions for food, agriculture, communities and the environment.

Land Acknowledgement.

Ontario Agricultural College
University of Guelph
50 Stone Road East
Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1
519-824-4120

Academic Units

  • Department of Animal Biosciences
  • Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics
  • Department of Food Science
  • School of Environmental Design and Rural Development
  • School of Environmental Sciences
  • Department of Plant Agriculture

Campuses

  • Guelph
  • Ridgetown

Centres and Institutes

  • The Arboretum
  • Aquaculture Centre
  • Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre
  • Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare
  • Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety
  • Centre for Agricultural Renewable Energy and Sustainability
  • Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock
  • Controlled Environment Systems Research Facility
  • Dairy at Guelph
  • Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation
  • Guelph Centre for Urban Organic Farming
  • Guelph Turfgrass Institute
  • Honey Bee Research Centre
  • Institute for the Advanced Study of Food and Agricultural Policy

Source URL: https://www.uoguelph.ca/oac/academics/rural-communities-and-planning

Links
[1] https://www.uoguelph.ca/oac/future-students/capacity-development-and-extension
[2] https://www.uoguelph.ca/oac/future-students/msc-ma-international-development-studies
[3] https://www.uoguelph.ca/oac/academics/international-development-studies-phd
[4] https://www.uoguelph.ca/oac/future-students/rural-planning-development
[5] https://www.uoguelph.ca/oac/future-students/rural-studies
[6] http://www.communicationprocess.ca/about.aspx