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This module encourages you to investigate the principles and practices of community governance and sustainable communities in a setting that is significantly different from your own.  For example, you conduct a study visit, a consultancy project or a secondment.

You negotiate an appropriate opportunity to investigate community governance or sustainable communities in a setting that is significantly different from your own.  This might involve a study visit to a community in another country or a different type of community (urban or rural), a period of secondment to another type of organisation or consultancy work/peer review for an agency in a different place.  You choose a focus for your study visit, your consultancy/peer review or secondment, allowing you to examine any aspect of the principles and practices of community governance or sustainable communities in more depth.

You will be offered the opportunity to join a group study visit to a country on the European mainland or within the United Kingdom; you may also choose to organise your own visit.  You can choose whether to work as an individual or in a team.

Throughout the experience you keep a log and a portfolio that provides evidence for your experience and demonstrates your learning; you explain how the experience has influenced your personal and professional development.

On successful completion of the module the student should be able to:

i. Knowledge and understanding. 

1. evaluate critically the principles and practices of community governance or sustainable communities in an unfamiliar setting
2. demonstrate a perceptive understanding of one or more specific aspects of community engagement and governance in a setting significantly different from their own
3. analyse good practice and justify its creative application in new settings

ii. Skills. 

1. demonstrate sound negotiation, problem solving and organisation skills
2. reflect critically on practice, experience and learning
3. communicate to a high professional standard to new audiences

This is a distance learning module based on 300 hours study.
Staff/student contact: 10% (residential school or field visit, face-to-face and online support)
Work-based learning: 40%; student directed learning: 50%

The Library Catalogue contains full details of the current reading list for this module. Further details may also be found in the Module Guide.