Unit of Study WELF1002 Community Development (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Health
Placement

No

Unit description

Introduces key concepts and perspectives related to understanding community development and identifies skills and issues where they are relevant to community development. Community development infers social change driven by the community. The two major areas of study are theoretical accounts of community development, and community development skills and issue.

Unit content

Definitions, history and principles of community development
Social, political and economic contexts of community development practice
Theoretical foundations of community development practice
Dimensions of community development
Power in community development
Community development roles and skills

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Gold Coast	Term4	Term4
Online	Term4	N/A

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

describe community development using values, principles and concepts of community development

identify and discuss practices of community development, including the contemporary contexts of practice

discuss community development as an approach to social development, philosophy and political action

identify and discuss contemporary issues and critiques of community development.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Assessment
Short written response	40%
Report	60%

Teaching method

Tutorial 2 hours (Weekly)

Workshop 1 hour (Weekly)

Assessment
Short written response	40%
Report	60%

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Fee information

Domestic

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