Community work
Jim Ross
3 hours per week * Second semester * Caulfield
An overview of community work. The communitarian approach to human services. The nature of community. Key concepts in community work - power, need, participation, task and process. Values, ideologies, goals and political issues. Practice roles and change strategies - locality development, social planning, social action. Research methods in community work. Professional issues and industrial awards.
Assessment
Written reports and essays (5000 words): 100%
Prescribed text
Cox F M and others Strategies of community organisation 4th edn, Peacock, 1987