Pre-requisites

None.

Co-requisites

None

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to:

• Explore and evaluate ways in which the arts may be integrated into community development.

• Critically analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of art in engaging issues of justice, society and culture

• Critique, review and evaluate the intersection and integration of art, faith, spirituality and issues of justice, society and culture in a community development project informed by a Christian worldview

• Enhance students’ capability to discern arts as a mode of personal expression, and communication to inspire and enhance relational community building

• Develop skills to discern arts as a mode of personal expression towards building community as a form of communication and expressing the community’s social and political sentiments

Unit Description

This unit will introduce students to a variety of art making and creative processes that may be integrated into community development. Students will engage in both critical analysis of the theory and practice of art and community development as well as practical experience and engagement of art making and creative process. Students will explore a number of different ways that art has been engaged in community development to engage a variety of social, ethical, ecological and environmental, justice and cultural issues. The engagement and exploration into art making and creative process will include a variety of mediums and will develop student’s abilities to critically evaluate how social change may be initiated through engaging art.

Topics

• How art and Community Development can work together
• Art in your own local community
• Street art the place of art in various communities and cultures
• Art as community strengthening
• Theories of art: Symbol and Metaphor
• Urbanism, Politics, and Mass Culture
• Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism

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Unit offerings

Face to face: Semester 2, 2025 (Every Year, Semester 2)

Please note

The Unit Offerings listed above are a guide only and the timetable for any year is the final authority. The College may vary offerings based on demand, regulatory requirements, continual improvement processes or other conditions.

This unit may be available in different modes of delivery i.e. online and face-to-face as listed above. The unit content will not differ between these modes of delivery. There will possibly be a difference in the schedule and/or the prescribed assessment tasks, however both will cover and assess the same content.