Course Coordinator: Dr Rebecca Tooher
Phone: +61 8313 1316
Email: rebecca.tooher@adelaide.edu.au
Location: Level 7, 178 North Terrace, Adelaide

Learning and Teaching Team
Phone: +61 8313 2128
Email: undergrad_enq@adelaide.edu.au

1	Apply theory critically to analyse community engagement
2	Explain and apply the principles of service learning and volunteerism
3	Work with other students to research a community and present and discuss the findings
4	Use quantitative and qualitative data they have collected to describe a community
5	Use critical reflection to analyse and evaluate the impact of their own community engagement activities
6	Identify the social and environmental factors that are impacting on the health of a particular community

Learning through serving: a student guidebook for service learning and civic engagement across academic disciplines and cultural  communities. Christine Cress, Peter Collier, Vicki Reitenauer Stylus Publishing, 2013 2nd Edition. Available as an ebook.
ISBN 978 1 57922 990 0 E-Book: 978 1 57922 992 4

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This course will introduce students to theories and practices of community engagement. Using experiential and service learning  students will discover what is community, who is in the community and how can we engage with community. Students will research the community in which they are studying. The course will include site visits to organisations working directly with the community  including local government, state government, non-government and grass-roots organisations. Students will learn from innovative practitioners that are working: to hear from the community and involve them in decision-making; to activate community resources; and to improve community wellbeing.

The course will be delivered in 3 hours of workshops per week consisting of lecture and discussion, student led group work, guest speakers and site visits.

Students will also undertake a service learning opportunity at one of a selected range of community partner organisations.

Contact hours: 3 hours per week, plus readings, assignments etc

Weekly workshop will cover the following topics:

- theories of community engagement,
- volunteerism
- service learning
- social innovation
- deliberative democratic theory
- placemaking
- social determinants of health
- health promotion theory
- simple qualitative and quantitative data collection methods
- spatial geography
- reflective practice
- deliberative practice

Students will visit a range of community partner organisations and hear from a range of guest speakers that are working:
- to hear from the community and involve them in decision-making; 
- to activate community resources;
- to improve community wellbeing.
- At the grass roots

Service learning opportunities will be provided by selected community partner organisations.

Students will select or be allocated to one of the agencies to undertake a single service learning activity at a time negotiated  between students and the agency. The types of activities that may be undertaken could include administrative support for a  community engagement event, supporting event management at a community engagement activity, collecting evaluation data from  a community engagement activity, working alongside a staff member to support a community outreach activity.

Students will undertake site visits and a service learning opportunity.

‘the community under the glass’

The class will take a map of the Adelaide CBD (and surrounds) at large scale – each group will use a glass to mark out a ‘discovery  area’ – they will then work to characterise the ‘community under the glass’ - who lives there?, who works there? what community resources are there?, what issues does this community face and what do they care about? Students will use existing data, their own  observations (by walking the area under the glass and making a detailed map of the community by counting and recording things)  and other qualitative/quantitative methods to collect data to characterise the community.

Groups will meet up to three times with an academic mentor who will act as a resource and guide as they develop their discovery activities.

Assessment Task	Assessment Type	Weighting	Learning course objective(s) being addressed
Reflective journal	Summative	30%	1, 2, 4, 6
Group report on SGDE	Summative	20%	3, 5, 6
Participation in service learning opportunity	Summative	10%	1, 2, 4
Written assignment	Summative	40%	1-4, 6

None.

Reflective journal (30%)
Students will complete articulated learning statements after each workshop/site visit/guest speaker. Statements will be handed up  weekly with a final reflective summary of up to 500 words which provides a reflective overview of their learning, due at the end of the semester .

Group report on the SGDE (20%)
Students will provide an oral report about the community that they have studied including an annotated map which highlights the  key features of the community and the issues that it faces as well as a description of how they collected the data that they are presenting.

Service learning (10%)
Students will undertake a volunteer role with a partner community organisation. They will complete a record of service and an  articulated learning statement.

Written assignment (40%) 2500 words
Students will select 3 agencies working with the Adelaide city community from a list provided by the course coordinator. They will  create a profile of each of the organisations which identifies the organisational mission and vision, the organisation’s main  activities, the population that the organisation works with, the role of volunteers within the organistion. They will also link this profile to the social determinants of health that each organisation may be impacting on. For each organisation students will identify and critically evaluate the community engagement stance adopted by the agency in relation to the community engagement theory and compare it with their own understanding or position in respect of community engagement as developed through the course of the semester of study.

Extensions
All extensions for assignments must be requested, at the latest, by the last working day before the due date of submission.   Extensions will generally be granted only on medical or genuine compassionate grounds.  Supporting documentation must be  provided at the time a student requests an extension.  Without documentation, extensions will not be granted.  Late requests for extension will neither be accepted nor acknowledged.

Only the Course Co-ordinator(s) may grant extensions.

Supporting documentation will be required when requesting an extension. Examples of documents that are acceptable include: a  medical certificate that specifies dates of incapacity, a police report (in the case of lost computers, car & household theft etc.), a  letter from a Student Counsellor, Education and Welfare Officer (EWO) or Disability Liaison Officer that provides an assessment of  compassionate circumstances, or a letter from an independent external counsellor or appropriate professional able to verify the  student’s situation.  The length of any extension granted will take into account the period and severity of any incapacity or impact  on the student.  Extensions of more than 10 days will not be granted except in exceptional circumstances.

Late submission
Marks will be deducted when assignments for which no extension has been granted are handed in late.

All assignments, including those handed in late, will be assessed on their merits.  In the case of late assignments where no  extension has been granted, 5 percentage points of the total marks possible per day will be deducted.  If an assignment that is 2  ays late is awarded 65% on its merits, the mark will then be reduced by 10% (5% per day for 2 days) to 55%.  If that same  ssignment is 4 days late, the mark will be reduced by 20% (5% per day for 4 days) to 45%, and so on.

The School of Public Health reserves the right to refuse to accept an assignment that is more than 7 days late.

Assignments submitted after the due date may not be graded in time to be returned on the listed return dates.

Students submitting examinable written work who request (and receive) an extension that takes them beyond the examination  period are advised that there is no guarantee that their grades will be processed in time to meet usual University deadlines.
 
Resubmission
If a student is dissatisfied with an assessment grade they should follow the Student Grievance Resolution Process  <https://www.adelaide.edu.au/student/grievance/process/>.  Students who are not satisfied with a particular assessment result should raise their concerns with Course Co-ordinator(s) in the first instance.  This must be done within 10 business days of the  date of notification of the result.  Resubmission of any assignment is subject to the agreement of the Course Co-ordinator(s) and  will only be permitted for the most compelling of reasons.