通过在默多克学习社区发展，您将学习如何与学校，地方议会，生态学家，原住民团体，社会服务组织，资源公司，大学和其他团体合作。您将开发在各种环境中工作所需的知识和实践技能，并可以参与社区组织的短期实习。<br> <br>您将探索如何鼓励人们更多地参与其中。当地设计的项目，体验社区发展项目的各种示例，并了解社区工作的历史，政策和社区的多样性。您的核心单元将包括“社区发展简介”，“与社区合作的创新方式”，“社区和社会政策”以及“与不同群体的社区合作”。
Explore how to get people more involved in locally designed projects, experience different examples of community development projects and learn about the history of community work, policy and the diversity of communities.Working with community is often complex, and demands sophisticated skills and an ‘artfulness’. Success comes to those who develop a combination of wisdom, high-end knowledge of relationships, considerable diplomacy and tenderness.. Often we need to balance a clear head, soft heart, kindness, emotional and social maturity and ethical strength. Although many think that working with community comes naturally there is much to learn, and good practitioners are in great demand. That’s where we come in This course will take you to current examples of community development, introducing you to other people’s ideas about what works, getting you thinking and talking about it. The Community Development major will give you the chance to undertake an internship in a community-based setting, encouraging you to extend your repertoire and build your imagination for how things work in different communities around the globe. This major is for people seeking to work with community in a range of settings including local government, not-for-profit organisations, Aboriginal Community controlled groups, community arts centres, social service organisations, and the resources sector.