Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
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| Online |
Term3
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Unit Summary
Unit aim
Introduces students to concepts of community from historical and sociological perspectives. Students engage with theoretical perspectives and case studies in community and will evaluate the various ways in which communities are characterised by both social cohesion and social inequality.
Unit content
Module 1. What is ‘community’?
Module 2. Is community in decline?
Module 3. The dark side of community
Module 4. Community and social stratification
Module 5. Communities of dissent: social power and political action
Module 6. Localisation and community resilience
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: | |
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| 1 | explain the social dimensions of community |
| 2 | analyse the changing nature of community and its role in society |
| 3 | explain how the issues of class, status, gender, ethnicity, race and religion manifest within the context of both ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ communities |
| 4 | critically explore and reflect upon community issues from varying theoretical standpoints. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- explain the social dimensions of community
- analyse the changing nature of community and its role in society
- explain how the issues of class, status, gender, ethnicity, race and religion manifest within the context of both ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ communities
- critically explore and reflect upon community issues from varying theoretical standpoints.
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.