Community and Organizational Leadership

The Community and Organizational Leadership concentration provides students with engaged learning experiences, both inside and outside the classroom.

Why study Community & Organizational Leadership at Coastal Georgia?

Within this concentration, students have opportunities to engage in hands-on service learning, research, and internships with local agencies and community partners. Our students also have the opportunity to collaborate with program faculty and other students to design, conduct, and present research at regional and national conferences. This concentration provides students with a strong foundation for graduate study, as well as for entry into the workforce.

What will I learn?

This concentration will provide students with a rigorous program of study in the science of psychology, including the theory, research, and quantitative methods of both basic and applied psychology. Creativity is nurtured along with research, writing, and general problem-solving skills.

What can I do when I graduate?

Students will have a strong foundation for graduate study in a variety of areas, as well as background for entry level leadership positions in community government agencies, non-profit organizations, and business.

Career areas include:

  • Community Psychology
  • Health Psychology
  • Industrial-Organizational Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Non-profit Organization Leadership
  • Government Agency Leadership
  • Program Development and Evaluation
  • Any business/organizational setting where data-driven problem-solving skills are an asset.

  • Dr. Marci R. Culley

    Professor of Psychology

    912-279-5887

    Education:
    Ph.D., Community Psychology, University of Missouri-Kansas City
    M.A., Community Psychology and Social Change, The Pennsylvania State University-Harrisburg
    B.S., Psychology, Michigan State University

    About: Dr. Culley’s program of research is focused on individual, community, organizational, and institutional responses to environmental hazards. She specializes in citizen participation in environmental decision-making, environmental justice, and the links between individual transformation and larger community and social change processes. In particular, she investigates psychosocial responses to environmental disputes, how citizen participation processes are shaped by power dynamics, and how community psychologists can inform change efforts aimed at the human-caused environmental crises related to global climate change. Dr. Culley has also written extensively about the history and content of the scholarly literature of community psychology, and in particular, its attention to diversity. Her research is informed by theories of social power and empowerment, ecology, feminism, and action research. These related theoretical domains provide the conceptual context for her program of research, philosophy of teaching, and work in the community.

    Courses regularly taught:
    Introduction to General Psychology
    Psychology of Adjustment
    Community Psychology
    Psychology of Women
    Environmental Psychology
    Ethics & Professional Issues in Psychology
    Program Development & Grant-Writing

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