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Tools for Community Development

  • Summer 2025
  • Next course: 26. May - 06. June 2025
  • CMM/CRD Elective Course | 4 ECTS
  • Course:CRD2404
Learning outcome

About the course

This course explores the tools, methods, and frameworks used in community development. Case studies explore best practices in a range of contexts including coastal, remote, and indigenous communities. The course explores methods used in support of communities asserting self-determination and local control, such as Asset-Based Community Development, stakeholder mapping and power analysis, participatory learning and action (PLA), capabilities-based development, place making, Theory of Change and logic models. Students will practice and apply these tools in varying contexts in this course.

Instructors

Learning outcome

On completion of the course a student:

  • can describe the social, political, cultural, and environmental contexts in which communities thrive and prosper.
  • can critically review the role of power and self-determination in the application of community development concepts, processes, and tools as well as methodological approaches.
  • understands the frameworks and strategies that support applied community development.
  • can identify best practices in the application of tool and methods in support of community development.
  • can demonstrate an understanding of Asset Based Community Development.

 

Prerequisites: No prerequisites registered for the course

Assessment: 10 % Class participation; 90% written or oral assignments

Final Exam: Assignment

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