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Unit of Study WELF1002 - Community Development (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

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

  1. Definitions, history and principles of community development
  2. Social, political and economic contexts of community development practice
  3. Theoretical foundations of community development practice
  4. Dimensions of community development
  5. Power in community development
  6. Community development roles and skills

 

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast
Term4
Term4
Online
Term4
N/A

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:

describe community development using values, principles and concepts of community development

identify and discuss practices of community development, including the contemporary contexts of practice

discuss community development as an approach to social development, philosophy and political action

identify and discuss contemporary issues and critiques of community development.

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • Ife, J, 2016, Community development in an uncertain world : Vision, analysis and practice, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia. ISBN: 978-1107543362.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
  • No prescribed resources/equipment.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.