ADS720 - Culture, Arts and Sports as Community Development
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | 1 x 1-hour online seminar per week |
Content
A growing number of development practitioners, artists, sportspeople and similar are utilising cultural approaches such as sharing arts and sporting activities, food, festivals, and yarning as a platform for engaging with communities in development conversations and activities. Culture generally, and arts & sports in particular, are fundamentally important to the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities, contributing to psycho-social wellbeing, economic opportunities, peacebuilding in conflict-affected settings, environmental awareness and action, and many more aspects of human endeavour. But do they lead to effective, positive change in marginalised, conflict-affected, traumatised or post-disaster communities? Are such cultural approaches ever ineffective or even harmful?
This unit explores culture as development, critically exploring the current evidence base to investigate where these approaches enhance or detract from development. The unit will also provide students with a critical yet practical focus on current methods for working with cultural approaches in their own professional context. Case studies of current organisations utilising these approaches will be analysed.
Topics include: What culture is, and why it is important to CD; Theories of culture as development; Theories of arts as development, and sports as development; Nature of the current evidence base around culture, arts and sports as development; Issues in measuring impact; Principles and practices of designing a cultural/arts/sports as development programmes; Future directions in research (e.g. Scaling up? Audience impacts?)
Unit Fee Information
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