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OLET1231: Community Engagement for Change
2025 unit information
Interested in understanding how you might work with communities to bring about social change? This unit, offered in an Open Learning Environment, provides the opportunity for students to gain theoretical and practical tools to support community-based social change. Students will identify, undertake and reflect on social action in community settings. Completion of the unit will build students graduate qualities of influence, interdisciplinarity and cross-cultural competency. This unit challenges the historical tendency of professions to work 'on' rather than 'with' communities which has contributed to ineffective policies, poor outcomes and professional frustration. It seeks to expand students' knowledge and skills in relation to working with the interactions, networks, structures and processes at the community level.
Unit details and rules
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 2 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. critically examine the concept of ‘community’ and its role in inclusion/exclusion within contemporary society
- LO2. identify how power is employed within and between communities and examine your own assumptions in relation to the concept of ‘community’
- LO3. reflect on the role of institutions and professionals in community engagement
- LO4. apply learning from this unit of study to other settings.
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Semester 2 2025
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Online | Camperdown / Darlington, Sydney |
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