与政府，社区团体，社会行动，海外援助，学校，地方议会，可持续性，土著团体，社会服务，艺术，商业和旅游业有关的人们都在谈论将社区发展作为一种新的做事方式。社区发展硕士让您了解社区发展的实践，开展实践的广泛环境，影响实践的社会研究方法和社会政策力量。作为本课程的一部分，您将在默多克大学工作人员的监督下对社区发展问题进行原始，实质性调查。
A Master of Community Development is for those wanting to make a difference through positive change to make their neighbourhood a better place. This course will introduce you to the community development ideas and practices used to create and foster community-led change in settings around Australia and beyond, like Anastasia who took her learnings from the course to make change in her home country, Indonesia. This course is designed for community work practitioners and graduates with an interest in moving into emerging fields that embrace the ideas and practices of community development, and want to broaden their knowledge substantially through further postgraduate studies.You'll study real and living community projects that build on cultural strength in remote areas, urban agriculture and sustainability projects, grassroots creative arts projects, activism work and much more. Combine case studies, documentaries, films and other creative digital forms that showcase examples of community work and attend workshops designed to teach creative ways of getting the community involved.