MRS/XCDP Community Development and Participation

Lecturer: Jarmila Lamačová
Lecture: 1 hour/week + exercise 1 hour/week
Credits: 4
Summer semester
Form of course completion: course credit, exam

This course will offer students a set of theoretical concepts in community development including practical tools for engaging in community and social change in different types of communities. With a particular focus on case studies from communities lecturer has visited abroad, we will discuss varying approaches to community change. We will consider important aspects of community change, including building sustainability, community economic development, and gender issues. Linkages will be drawn between local and global context and community principles. Students will practically examine various cases of community development applied both locally and internationally.