Undergraduate - UnitATS2782 - Alternative and mainstream communities

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Offered	Gippsland Second semester 2014 (Day) Gippsland Second semester 2014 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Julie Fenley

Notes

Previously coded HPL2511

Synopsis

This unit examines the establishment of alternative communities and their relationship to traditional communities and the state. It gives students a critical understanding of the historical development and contemporary experience of community building, innovation, maintenance and failure. Topics include traditional communities, utopian and socialist communities, theories of social organisations, cooperatives, religious and nomadic communities, and the challenges facing Australian regional and outer suburban communities.

Outcomes

On successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

understand the range of social formations that exist both as parts of communities and as communities in themselves;
comprehend a range of perspectives on community organisation;
critically understand the factors involved in community building, community innovation, community maintenance and community failure;
comprehend the ways in which alternative communities engage with mainstream society;
employ a range of analytical skills and conceptual frameworks;
write well argued and competently written essays for assessment.

Assessment

Written work: 60%
Exam (2 hours): 40%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Julie Fenley

Workload requirements

One 1-hour lecture and one 1-hour tutorial per week

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

History-politics

Prerequisites

1st year-level Arts sequence (12 credit points) or permission

Prohibitions

GSC2701, HPL2511