NGO Education Survey

CD101 INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

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.

CD161 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SKILLS

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.

CD264 URBAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Students will consider the uniqueness of the city context and the implications that effect community development practice and strategy among the urban poor.

CD265 AID AND DEVELOPMENT: CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES

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.

CD360 MANAGING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS

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.

CD460 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PRACTICE FRAMEWORKS

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.

JC218 BUILDING COMMUNITY

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.

CD342 URBAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

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.

SO651 TRANSFORMATIVE SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT AND CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW

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

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.

CD240 COMMUNITY AID AND DEVELOPMENT

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.

CD241 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SKILLS

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.