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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Introduction to Community Work

  • Unit Code

    CSV1101

  • Year

    2019

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Hossein ADIBI

Description

This unit provides a comprehensive introduction to a range of models of working with communities. Distinctions are made between the community work processes used in service provision; events organisation; social and political activism; community development; leadership development; and social impact assessment. The unit provides an introduction to working with local communities associated with the natural environment; the built environment; the economic environment; the personal and social environment; and the arts and cultural environment.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CBS1104, CBS1106

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically examine the applicability of community work processes to a range of client groups.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the skills and processes relevant to community work.
  3. Describe the history and contemporary field of community work.
  4. Distinguish between the community work processes used in advocacy, service provision; events organisation; social and political activism; community development; leadership development; and social impact assessment.
  5. Identify and analyse the power structures at a local level and understand their influence on community based practice.
  6. Recognise which community work processes are most appropriate for particular projects aimed at the enrichment and sustainability of a range of local communities, including those associated with natural, built, economic, social and personal, and arts and cultural environments.

Unit Content

  1. Models of community work, methods in community work practice including processes used in; Service provision, events organisation, social and political activism, community development, leadership development, social impact assessment and Government/Community/Integrated local area planning.
  2. Practice; Community analysis across natural, physical, economic, personal and cultural environments. Community based research, including Social Impact Assessment. Running public meetings and community consultations. Strategic partnerships: identifying stakeholders and building alliances.
  3. Skills; An overview of the range of skills that can be called upon for work in and with communities. These include relationship, empowerment, influence and negotiation skills.
  4. The heart of Community well being, the field of community work and its history. Power relationships in community work: Difference, diversity and conflict.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and Skills Workshops.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayCommunity reflection50%
PortfolioTheoretical concepts50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayCommunity reflection50%
PortfolioTheoretical concepts50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Taylor, Judy. (2015). Working with Communities. Melbourne: OUPANZ. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/973181029
  • Taylor, J., Wilkinson, D., & Cheers, B. (2008). Working with communities in health and human services. (pp. xix, 291). South Melbourne: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/232364989

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Introduction to Community Work

  • Unit Code

    CSV1101

  • Year

    2019

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Hossein ADIBI

Description

This unit provides a comprehensive introduction to a range of models of working with communities. Distinctions are made between the community work processes used in service provision; events organisation; social and political activism; community development; leadership development; and social impact assessment. The unit provides an introduction to working with local communities associated with the natural environment; the built environment; the economic environment; the personal and social environment; and the arts and cultural environment.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CBS1104, CBS1106

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically examine the applicability of community work processes to a range of client groups.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of the skills and processes relevant to community work.
  3. Describe the history and contemporary field of community work.
  4. Distinguish between the community work processes used in advocacy, service provision; events organisation; social and political activism; community development; leadership development; and social impact assessment.
  5. Identify and analyse the power structures at a local level and understand their influence on community based practice.
  6. Recognise which community work processes are most appropriate for particular projects aimed at the enrichment and sustainability of a range of local communities, including those associated with natural, built, economic, social and personal, and arts and cultural environments.

Unit Content

  1. Models of community work, methods in community work practice including processes used in; Service provision, events organisation, social and political activism, community development, leadership development, social impact assessment and Government/Community/Integrated local area planning.
  2. Practice; Community analysis across natural, physical, economic, personal and cultural environments. Community based research, including Social Impact Assessment. Running public meetings and community consultations. Strategic partnerships: identifying stakeholders and building alliances.
  3. Skills; An overview of the range of skills that can be called upon for work in and with communities. These include relationship, empowerment, influence and negotiation skills.
  4. The heart of Community well being, the field of community work and its history. Power relationships in community work: Difference, diversity and conflict.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and Skills Workshops.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayCommunity reflection50%
PortfolioTheoretical concepts50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayCommunity reflection50%
PortfolioTheoretical concepts50%

Core Reading(s)

  • Taylor, Judy. (2015). Working with Communities. Melbourne: OUPANZ. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/973181029
  • Taylor, Judy. (2015). Working with Communities. Melbourne: OUPANZ. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/973181029
  • Taylor, J., Wilkinson, D., & Cheers, B. (2008). Working with communities in health and human services. (pp. xix, 291). South Melbourne: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/232364989
  • Taylor, J., Wilkinson, D., & Cheers, B. (2008). Working with communities in health and human services. (pp. xix, 291). South Melbourne: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/232364989

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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