Completing the course will give the students the following learning outcome, sectioned into knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge:

The Student

• has advanced knowledge of different community development theories and methodologies

• has a deep understanding of the complex, interdisciplinary and multidimensional rationale of community development

• can apply different theoretical perspectives to explain contextual community development processes and outcomes, including a faith-based context

• has a deepened knowledge of the sustainable development goals in relation to community development

• has an advanced understanding of how contextual factors and power relations influence community development

Skills:

The Student

• can critically analyse and discuss different theoretical perspectives related to community development

• can reflect critically on the role of power, gender and culture in relation to community development

• can express critical reflections towards approaching communities in an academically written form

• can reflect on participatory community development practices

• is able to analyse community development measures on macro-, meso- and microlevels in different communities and contexts

• is able to conduct a planning process for a community work project; including aims, participants, approaches, cost calculation, and evaluation, and demonstrate innovative reflections

• can assess the role of context and of internal and external stakeholders for community development, especially the role of faith-based actors

General Competence:

The Student

• can relate community development measures to the United Nation’s sustainable development goals

• is able to transfer knowledge of and skills from the field of community development to other research fields

• can analyse critically the role of faith- and lifestands in community development

• can include the perspectives of the United Nation’s sustainable development goals into the planning of a community development project

• is able to communicate with specialist as well as non-specialists about issues related to community development

• can write an academic text using existing research, individual reflection, applying theories to real life cases, and citing of references

Course description

Community Development

MACOMM5010-O