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Introduction to Community Development

Undergraduate | MUR-COD125 | 2018

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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.

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
No ATAR needed,
No prior study
Duration
13 weeks

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Introduction to Community Development

About this subject

  • 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.

Entry requirements

No entry requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
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