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Undergraduate MUR-COD125-2021

Introduction to Community Development

Join the debates about how to approach community development in a modern society. Research Marxist, fascist, feminist and other drastically different ideas about community development. Unpack case studies. Apply an Australian context to your studies.

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$1,100 $1,350

Your upfront cost: $0

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Duration

13 weeks

Study method

100% online

Available loans

  • HECS-HELP
  • FEE-HELP

Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Not required

Study terms

  • 01 Mar 2021
  • 30 Aug 2021
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This research-based university in Perth has a strong interdisciplinary focus and a reputation for outstanding teaching and ground-breaking research. With more than 22,000 students and 2,000 staff from over 90 countries, and campuses in Dubai and Singapore, Murdoch embraces free thinking, shared ideas and knowledge to make a difference, and Open Universities Australia is certainly part of that.

QS RANKING 2021

28

Times Higher Education Ranking 2021

29

  • 2021

Subject details

What you'll learn

On successful completion of the subject you should be able to:

  1. read and offer a critical account of literature concerned with the practice of community development
  2. explain how a range of key writer/practitioners approach the idea of community development
  3. examine the strengths and limits of community development practice
  4. use the literature to critically write about at least one case study of community development
  5. understand the history of community development.
Topics covered
    • Introductory ideas about community development
    • The history of community development
    • Case studies in community development
    • Martin Buber and dialogue
    • The critical traditions
    • Freire and development
    • Post-colonial traditions
    • Foucault and the post-structural traditions
Entry requirements

No eligibility requirements

Special requirements

No special requirements

Description

This subject introduces students to community development ideas and practice, with particular reference to its application in the Australian context. It will examine the emergence of the concept of community development and its meanings across diverse areas of practice.  A key focus of the unit will be challenges posed by matching theory and practice in community development.  Towards this end students will be expected to become familiar with, and aware of the limitations of key methodologies in community development.

Please Note: All students studying at Murdoch University will need to complete the compulsory unit, Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP100), which only takes 2-3 hours to complete online. Find out more: http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport.

Assessments

  • Online discussion page (10%)
  • Non-Invigilated Exam (40%)
  • Journal (50%)
Textbooks

Check the learning management system (LMS) of your university for textbook details.

Check the learning management system (LMS) of your university for textbook details.

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