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Unit of Study BHS00130 - Community Development (2019)

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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

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour Session 2 Session 2
Gold Coast Session 2 Session 2
Online Session 2 Session 2

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

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:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
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:

  1. describe community development using values, principles and concepts of community development
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
  2. identify and discuss practices of community development, including the contemporary contexts of practice
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA7:
  3. demonstrate a critical understanding of community development as an approach to social development, philosophy and political action
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA7:
  4. identify and discuss contemporary issues and critiques of community development.
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA7:

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