Creative Ways to Work with Community

• • Community participation and engagement
  • Theoretical and practical traditions of community
  • Types of participation
  • Digital technology and community participation
  • Digital technology, sound, text and communities
  • Spatial mapping and community participation
  • Cultural development and arts practice

• Study resources

  • Instructional methods

    • Audio/Video conferencing
    • Discussion forum/Discussion Board
    • Online assignment submission

  • Online materials

    • Resources and Links
    • Online Assessment
    • Audio-Video streaming

  • Other materials

    • CD ROM

Equivalent subjects

You cannot enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• MUR-COD334A
• MUR-COD334

Others

Students must have completed 18 credit points (6 OUA subjects) at Level 1 before enrolling in this subject. This subject is also equivalent to COD334 Creative Ways to Work with Community.

Special requirements

This subject was previously known as COD334A Creative Ways to Work with Community.

Increasingly individuals, organisations, 'communities' and various government instrumentalities are signalling that community involvement in planning, management and government is something they would like to see carried out more often. At the same time, a range of imaginative strategies and tools have emerged to try and increase the level of community involvement in decision making. This subject introduces students to some of these practical participatory methods.

• Politics of Participation (30%)
• Methods of Participation (25%)
• Discussion Forum (10%)
• Digital Story Book (35%)