MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Graduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

HSD4080

Community development

Proposed to be offered next in first semester 1997

6 points + 3 hours per week + Caulfield

Synopsis History, concepts practice issues; concepts of community; models of community development; power and empowerment; participation; need and need assessment; research methods; neighbourhood work; self help groups; social policy; political change; social inequality.

Assessment Written (4500 words): 100% + Assessment is on a pass/fail basis

References

Cox F E and others Strategies of community organisation 4th edn, Peacock, 1987
Henderson P and Thomas D Skills in neighbourhood work Allen and Unwin, 1980.
Thorpe R and Petuchenia J Community work or social change: Australian case studies Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985

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