Community Development

This programme is specifically designed for people who are working paid or unpaid in the field. You will normally attend classes a day and a half per week from September to May in first and second year and a day a week in third year.

You will study:

• Community development approaches
• Community development methods
• Community development practice
• Social theories 1
• Local and global context.

You will study:

• Community development for social change
• Critical practice for empowerment
• Social theories 2
• Popular education (block week).

You will study:

• Social theories 3 (block week)
• Introduction to research for community development
• Community development placement.

The third-year placement provides you with the opportunity to demonstrate your competence as a worker in a different setting, thereby demonstrating the transferability of your skills. Placements will take place in a different context from your usual work-practice.

There is the possibility of carrying out an overseas placement in the third year of the programme. In addition there are annual study trips which, although not part of the degree programme, are run by the course team and enrich the learning of students by exposing them to different cultures and alternative forms of practice. In recent years we have visited Kathmandu, Mumbai, New York, Amsterdam and Ireland.