Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Coffs Harbour | ||
| Gold Coast | ||
| Online |
Unit description
Introduces key concepts and perspectives related to understanding community development and identifies skills and issues where they are relevant to community development. Community development infers social change driven by the community. The two major areas of study are theoretical accounts of community development, and community development skills and issue.
Unit content
Topic 1: Introducing community development
Topic 2: Domains of community development practice
Topic 3: Ecological and social justice
Topic 4: Post-enlightenment and Indigenous perspectives
Topic 5: Community development possibilities and alternatives
Topic 6: Change from below and process
Topic 7: Global and local community development
Topic 8: Dimensions of development
Topic 9: Roles and skills
Topic 10: Contemporary practice issues
Topic 11: Summary and conclusion
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | describe community development using values, principles and concepts of community development |
| 2 | identify and discuss practices of community development, including the contemporary contexts of practice |
| 3 | demonstrate a critical understanding of community development as an approach to social development, philosophy and political action |
| 4 | identify and discuss contemporary issues and critiques of community development. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- describe community development using values, principles and concepts of community development
- identify and discuss practices of community development, including the contemporary contexts of practice
- demonstrate a critical understanding of community development as an approach to social development, philosophy and political action
- identify and discuss contemporary issues and critiques of community development.
Prescribed texts
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Lecture on-site 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Reflective writing | 30% |
| Short written response | 50% |
| Quiz | 20% |
| Teaching method |
| Lecture on-site 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Reflective writing | 30% |
| Short written response | 50% |
| Quiz | 20% |
| Teaching method |
| Lecture online 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Tutorial online 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Structured online learning 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Reflective writing | 30% |
| Short written response | 50% |
| Quiz | 20% |
Fee information
Domestic
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