Unit Code: URP516

Unit Name: Community Development

Description: This course provides understanding on activities to facilitate, strengthen, and improve less-advantaged communities. To empower their residents to define and participate in the development process, and interact in the larger social, political, and economic systems on behalf of their communities. This course provides the opportunity for students to explore, develop, and apply an interdisciplinary set of theories useful for understanding and acting within the professional and academic field of community and regional development. It starts from the basic understanding of culture in Fiji and the South Pacific, continue with basic material of community development that assume community development. Hence the abundance of culture makes any applied decision precarious. It is against this canvass that the various elements of this course are projected. The many theoretical as well as political approaches discussed in this course are meant to allow the students to understand why the business of community development is a constant, never ending, and often contradictory process of shifting social figurations.

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Prerequisite: COM502

Prerequisite Sentence: N/A

Credit Point: 15

Offered In: Semester 2