COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AIMS

The course is aimed to equip student with understanding & insight into nature & types of communities. It will enable students to apply professional community development and organization skills techniques, methods & approaches to organize and develop communities for their betterment and to bring about social change.
OBJECTIVES:
The course is designed to enable the students for making a critical analysis of the socio-economic & culture conditions of the community.
To help students learn basic concepts involved in community development & organization and the method of intervention for betterment of the communities.
To enable the students to acquire the skills required for the identification of community needs & problems and develop workable intervention strategies best suited to the local conditions of the community.
CONTENTS:
A. COMMUNITY
1 Definition, meaning of community sociological criteria of a good community .
2 Types of community and characteristics of each.
B. COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
I Concept of community organization
1 Definition scope and purpose of community organization
2 Goals of community organization
3 Related concepts.
a) Community development
b) Community development planning
c) Social police and action.
d) Social reforms and social controls
II HUMAN FACTORS IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
a) Motivation for social change
b) Basic human needs their satisfication and frustration
c) Personality leadership and its role in community.
d) Characteristics of rural and urban communties.
e)  Community organization at local and national level.
III Role of Provincial and national council of Social Welfare.
IV Non government organizations, their structure and functions.
V Rural Community Development programes in Pakistan.
C. Community Development
1. Definition and scope of community development.
2. Community organization and development similarities and differences.
3. Working definition of community development.
a. Community Services
b. Community participation
I. Community Development : Concept, Principles and Methods.
a) Definition, Philosophy, and concept of community development.
b) Scope of community development.
c) Social, Political and Economic implications of Community Development and its role in national development.
d) Principles of community development.
e) Different approaches in community development.
 II. Organization and administration of community Development Programme.
Rural and Urban Community Development similarities and Differences Nature and Scope.
Communication and Co-ordination in Community Development.
Stimulation of Voluntary Action and Development of Local Leadership.
Community Services
Community participation
III. PRINCIPLE AND TECHNIQUES OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Step initiating community development through project planning and implementing programmes.
Committee types functions principles and importance of working with committees.