ADS720 - Arts and Sports-based Approaches to Community Development

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Vicki Ware
Cohort rule:Nil
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Typical 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.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

Online independent and collaborative learning activities equivalent to 1 x 1-hour per week

Content

A growing number of development, arts and sports practitioners are utilising arts and sports as a platform or tool for engaging communities in development conversations and activities, to improve psycho-social wellbeing in disadvantaged, conflict-affected, or traumatised post-disaster communities. Arts are also sometimes used as a development communication tool. But do they lead to effective change? In what contexts are they more effective? And are they ever ineffective or even harmful? This unit explores these alternative approaches to development, introducing the current evidence base to investigate where these approaches can enhance or detract from development. The unit will also provide students with a critical yet practical focus on current methods for applying these tools to their own professional context. Case studies of current organisations utilising these approaches will be analysed.

Topics will include: an introduction to the theory of arts-based and sports-based development; similarities and differences between arts-based and sports-based interventions; the nature of the current evidence base and issues in measuring impact; some major approaches to implementing these approaches, and key practitioners working in the area; the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches, including key areas where they are currently implemented (e.g. education for disengaged youth, peacebuilding, negotiation, political dialogue, identity formation); and future directions in research.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Identify and critically analyse the common approaches to arts-based and sports-based development

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO2

Identify and utilise international studies in exploring and assessing the opportunities and challenges that utilising arts/sports-based approaches present for development practice today

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO3: Digital literacy

ULO3

Design an appropriate arts-based or sports-based solution to a community development issue, by drawing together conceptual and empirical materials in an analytic and insightful way

GLO2: Communication

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO5: Problem solving

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1: Essay 2000 words
or equivalent
40% Week 5
Assessment 2: Research and Writing Exercise 3000 words
or equivalent
60% Week 12

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via ADS720
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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