CD240 COMMUNITY AID AND DEVELOPMENT
10 Credits
Intermediate |
This unit introduces students to historical and current perspectives and models of
international aid and development. In particular students will be enabled to critique such
practices from a range of positions including that of a Christian worldview, to assist in the
development of their own developing framework of community work. |
CD265 AID AND DEVELOPMENT: CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES
10 Credits
|
The purpose of this unit is both to critique
traditional approaches to aid and development delivery as well as introduce
students to evidentiary-based models that emphasise collaboration with and
empowerment of recipients. |
CD241 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SKILLS
10 Credits
Intermediate |
This unit is a discipline specific skills unit designed to equip students with a range of basic tools
and technical skills that will underpin the contextual and theoretical knowledge and strategies
required to effectively engage people within their communities. It also challenges students to
evaluate community engagement practices in the light of biblical principles and values and a
Christian worldview. |
CD342 URBAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
10 Credits
Advanced |
This unit is a core intermediate unit that provides students with an in-depth exploration of the
principles, concepts and practices that contribute to effective community engagement in an
urban context. It introduces students to key urban community development areas as a basis
for understanding local, national and global efforts to promote justice, reduce poverty and
build environments for people to lead productive, creative and fulfilling lives in accordance
with gospel principles. |
CD101 INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
10 Credits
|
Beginning
from an understanding of current community experiences and trends, students will
learn how community development practices and principles can enable them to
respond to contemporary needs. |
CD460 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
PRACTICE FRAMEWORKS
10 Credits
|
This unit is intended to provide the student with understandings and practical skills
relevant to working with people in a variety of contexts utilising a range of
approaches and models of community development practice. Building on a
previous study of community development and social issues, this unit will examine
practice issues in the community development field today, and will enable
students to undertake an analysis of a range of community development issues. |
CD264 URBAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
10 Credits
|
Students
will consider the uniqueness of the city context and the implications that effect
community development practice and strategy among the urban poor. |
CD161
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SKILLS
10 Credits
|
To become effective practitioners in community contexts, including community
development, students need to develop basic interpersonal skills in the context of
critical reflection and a growing self-awareness. As this unit introduces students to
core skills and an expanded capacity to critically reflect on their practice, they will
be able to effectively facilitate meaningful interpersonal connection, identify and
overcome barriers hindering that connection and develop networks and community
within a framework informed by ethical principles and Christian perspectives. |
SO651 TRANSFORMATIVE SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT AND
CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW
10 Credits
Advanced |
This unit provides students with an in-depth exploration and critique of the principles,
concepts and practices that contribute to community engagement. It grounds students in
essential theory and skills as they relate to different levels of community engagement
including a Christian worldview. |
CD464
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
IN URBAN CONTEXTS
10 Credits
Graduate |
This unit is designed to interact with the issues and implications of community
development in a context of urban expansion and poverty. Participants will look at
the uniqueness of the city context and the implications that effect community
development practice and strategy among the urban poor. The unit will explore the
context of city dwellers within a developing nation and a developed nation, noting
similarities and differences in these multicultural settings. Special consideration will
be paid to relevant systemic, sociological, economic, political and religious factors
influencing urban poverty and community development. |
CD360
MANAGING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
10 Credits
|
Many Community Development projects and initiatives fail not because of a lack of
effort or intention on the part of those involved, but because of a deficiency in
skills and understanding relating to the diverse roles and responsibilities required
of project managers and over-seers. To maximise the likelihood of success
therefore, those with responsibility for community development initiatives require
theoretical and practical capacity in project planning, management and evaluation.
The skills involved in effective communication with stakeholders, regulatory
bodies and various levels of government; financial planning and management; and
foreseeing and addressing complex problems and barriers, are particularly
important. |
JC218 BUILDING COMMUNITY
10 Credits
|
This unit explores practices and approaches to build communities into what God
intended, and the Bible teaches. It focuses on building communities from various
perspectives, based on biblical and theological understandings of this mandate. It
critically evaluates ministry practices for the building of community. |
