Theoretical Foundations of Sustainable Community Development
| Course Code | CDEV-112 |
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| Lecture hours per week | 3 |
| Lab hours per week | |
| Course Availability | Open |
| Description | This course builds a strong theoretical foundation for understanding and advancing sustainable community development practice. Students will explore key theories and functions of community development, sustainability, and sustainable development, alongside Indigenous perspectives and community development principles. Students will critically analyze sustainable community development (initiatives),responses to social, economic, and environmental needs. Students will learn the skills necessary in researching a community by carrying out a community analysis assessment including sustainability.
Course Learning Outcomes 1. Examine definitions, characteristics, concepts, types and functions related to community development. 2. Outline a historical overview of community development practice including key conceptual milestones, prominent theorists and the research that has shaped its development 3. Identify the perspectives, values, ethics and principles on which community development practice is based 4.Describe the many facilitative roles, competencies, and skills that guide CD practice in different settings and for different types of CD practitioners 5. Investigate various approaches, frameworks, models and processes central to the practice of community development and identify challenges and possible solutions associated with the use of these approaches 6. Identify and evaluate dynamics of power, inequality, empowerment and social justice that impact both the community and the practice of community development 7. Investigate CD projects and CD related research that highlight community based organizations that practice CD work |