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HPL2511 - Community studies

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate Faculty of Arts

Leader(s): Dr Keith Wilson

Offered

Gippsland Second semester 2009 (Day)
Gippsland Second semester 2009 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit gives students a critical understanding of community building, innovation, maintenance and failure. Topics include traditional communities, utopian communities, theories of social organisations, cooperatives, religious communities, sects, self-sufficient communities, community networks and the challenges facing Australian rural communities.

Objectives

At the completion of this unit students will be able to:

  1. understand the range of social formations that exist both as parts of communities and as communities in themselves;
  2. comprehend a range of perspectives on community organisation;
  3. critically understand the factors involved in community building, community innovation, community maintenance and community failure;
  4. employ a range of analytical skills and conceptual frameworks; and
  5. write well argued and competently written essays for assessment.

Assessment

Written work: 60%
2 hour exam: 40%

Contact hours

2 hours per week (1-hour lecture, 1-hour tutorial)

Prerequisites

Completion of eight first-level units in Humanities and Social Sciences or permission

Prohibitions

GSC2701

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