This course focuses on applying social science ideas and methods to understand challenges facing communities today. It focuses on community initiatives like engagement, solidarity, and citizenship guided by values like human rights, social justice, empowerment, and advocacy. The goal is to enhance students' sense of shared identity and willingness to work for the common good. Students will learn how to integrate applied social sciences into real community actions and initiatives.

2. This course focuses on theapplication of ideas and methods of thesocial
sciences tounderstand, investigate, and examine challenges of contemporary
community life. Itfocuses on community-action initiatives such as community
engagement, solidarity, and citizenship as guided by thecorevalues of human
rights,social justice,empowerment and advocacy, gender equality, and
participatory development.Itaims at enhancing students’sense of shared
identity and willingness tocontributetothepursuit of thecommongood of the
community. Itenables students tointegrate applied social sciences into
community-action initiatives.

5. Explain theimportance of
studying community
dynamics and community
action in relation toapplied
social sciences and the
learner’s futurecareer options.
• Why is itimportanttostudy
thecommunity and its
dynamics?
• How important is thestudy
of community toour future
as an individual and as a
collective?
• How can critical knowledge
about thecommunity affects
us and others?

6. ● was derived form the Latin word “communis”
which means common or shared. Thus the
general understanding of the word
community is that it is a social unit compose
of people who have something in common.

7. Geographical
– the members of the community share
the same geographical vicinity, such as
a village, province, ourneighbourhood.
Non-Geographical
- thesecommunities are formed based on
needs,ideas, interest,identity, practices
and rules and social institutionssuch as
at home,at work and government,
society orthecommunity at large.
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8. Micro level
– a group isformed based on
personal social ties.This may
include groups formed for
pursuing common interestor
goals, like forming a small
organization tohold a
fundraising activity such as
concert.
Macro level
– large groups affiliations are
formed such as national,
international and virtual
communities. Companies and
corporations may develop various
programs thatwould include the
differentmembersacross the
country.Theywill work on meeting
certain objectives and expand on
theaspect of thecommunity
involvement.

9. -Community consultation
-Joint planning
-Joint design
-Joint delivery
-Implementation of
communityled activities
Members of the community
consult one another to be able to
implement their plans and
collaborate with one another to
achieve them.

10. – theprocess of
transferring ownership or
leasehold of a property
- use of physical resources
– making contacts
through face toface
interaction
.– thecommunity may decide
on theirpriorities, designs and
services tobe conductedbased
on their goals.
Community Engagement
in Decision Making
Community Networks

11. Physical Infrastructure Social Info-Structure
- wires, computers and technologies
required to establish internet connectivity.
- consist of on-going process of engaging
people in purposeful applications of the
physical connectivity.

13. - is any activity thataims toincrease the
understanding, engagement and
empowermentof communities for theintention
of giving services topeople. Itis also
described as as a social action orcommunity
engagement.Activities are aligned with the
objectives based on theroles thatthe
community plays. In community action, local
citizens engage in planning, design and
delivery of local services.

14. Prevention
Buildingcommunityand
socialcapacity
Community
resiliency
Maintainingand
creating wealth

15. "The greatness of a community is most
accurately measured by the compassionate
actions of its members." – Coretta Scott King