WS5006:06
Social Planning
Townsville
Second semester. Flexible delivery mode.
Staff: Ms R Bone.
This subject will consider theoretical issues which underpin traditional social planning and integrated models for social planning within a planning and development framework. The subject intermeshes the earlier theory, structures and processes of social planning with contemporary work that is being developed, particularly at the local and state government levels. There is a particular focus on the incorporation of social impact assessment procedures into development assessment processes. The orientation of the subject is clearly practice-focused to enhance the skills of practitioners who are working, or wish to work, in the social planning field.
Learning Objectives:
- explore some of the different traditions of social planning, with an examination of some of the skills and techniques that social planners are expected to possess;
- develop a deep understanding of the role of social planning within a local and regional context;
- develop a deep understanding of social impact assessment within a planning and development framework.
Assessment by a critical analysis of a specific social planning field (60%); social planning intervention proposal (40%).
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