Course overview
This course aims to examine key concepts and theoretical frameworks with a focus on development terms, such as community, participation, sustainability, gender, equality and empowerment. We explore the use of these concepts in development practice and policy. These include poverty and gender; the empowerment of women through work and microfinance; and proposed empowerment of communities through the girl effect. Corporate community development is examined, as is the practice of volunteer/cultural tourism as sustainable community development; the issue of human rights at the level of local communities; and analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals from the standpoint of gender and community.
Course learning outcomes
- Have a secure and accurate understanding of the nature and theories of development at the community and/or grassroots level as well as the main critiques of development from a gender-based perspective
- Knowledge of and insight into key issues and concerns raised about the nature of development and development studies from a critical perspective
- Ability to understand and apply key theoretical approaches to contemporary development contexts and situations
- Capacity to critically evaluate central themes, propositions, and concepts in development studies, particularly those concerned with community development and gender-based development
- Commitment to an academically rigorous comprehension of the diversity of gendered, community and participatory development contexts, policies, and practices
- Understanding of and commitment to continuous learning and research into development policies and programs, and acknowledgement of specific cultural and social issues in global development programs and policies
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 30006
Section LE01
Size 105
Available 105
Class number 27334
Section WS01
Size 35
Available 35
Class number 27333
Section WS02
Size 35
Available 35
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