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OCCP3201: Community Development and Disability
2025 unit information
People with and without disability can take collective action to help build liveable, sustainable, and equitable communities. In these healthy communities, people with disability participate in decisions that affect their lives, they have the same life-opportunities as other people, and they know they will be treated fairly and with respect. Disability inclusive community development challenges discrimination and exclusion whilst promoting recognition of people with disability as fully contributing and responsible citizens. The unit will employ an interactive learning approach focusing on real-world problems as the vehicle for significant multidisciplinary learning about disability-inclusive and sustainable community development. We will identify factors that perpetuate inequity for people with disability, examine why these factors endure even when evidence shows they have adverse effects, and appraise how these factors inform contemporary policies, programs, and services. We will explore how grassroots community development strategies and their accompanying modes of working in partnership with communities can be used to influence change. By learning about the values, standards, and practices of community development such as community capacity development, policy, and advocacy, we will develop new ways of working that (re)shape opportunities to build inclusive and sustainable communities. Students will tailor their own community development toolkit that capitalises on strengths-based facilitators of community inclusion matched to their personal framework for doing community development. Finally, students will apply their toolkit to the design of a community development initiative that advances individual and collaborative change processes.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Medicine and Health
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Participation Sciences |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Students will need to have completed 18 credit points of 2000 level units |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Apply community development and disability theory to appraise the inclusiveness of a program and its guiding policy framework and identify areas for future development and change (towards greater inclusiveness).
- LO2. Devise a plan to respectfully acquire social, cultural, and historical information from multiple stakeholders and information sources to learn about a community.
- LO3. Select an effective framework and mode for working with communities matched to community goals and priorities.
- LO4. Establish strategies to work in partnership with diverse communities, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
- LO5. Identify criteria upon which to assess the success, scalability and sustainability of a disability inclusive community development initiative.
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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