WS3013:03
Community Practice
Townsville, Cairns, Mackay, External
HECS Band 1
13 hours lectures, 26 hours tutorials or the equivalent in mixed mode on-campus delivery. Internal – Townsville, Cairns, Mackay (Semester 1); External (Semester 1).
Staff: Ms R Bone (Townsville campus); Ms G Galloway (Cairns campus).
The subject compliments WS3011 and builds on material introduced at level 2. Content will include consideration of critical perspectives of the nature and meaning of community development, roles and processes in community work, current trends in community work theory and the critiques and contradictions of theory and practice in relation to social change and justice. The subject will also address key strategies, principles and practices in community work e.g. participation, empowerment, consciousness-raising, relevant to a range of community development settings.
Learning Objectives:
- appreciate the competing range of definitions/meanings of ‘community’ and ‘development’ in the rural, remote, urban and global contexts;
- awareness of the critiques and contradictions within current community work theory;
- a critical appreciation of strategies and roles for developing sustainable communities;
- skills for development of sustainable and ‘just’ communities;
- critical orientation to the use and application of principles, strategies and skills in diverse community settings;
- integrate a range of practice methods into community based work e.g. group work.
Students are required to demonstrate a critical reflective approach to Community Practice in two written assignments. Assessment by assignment 1 (30%); assignment 2 (70%).