Citizenship Education and Community Engagement

Citizenship Education and Community Engagement

YEAR/SEMESTER: Year 1/Semester 2

COURSE CODE:  URCC-5110

DURATION:    03 credits, 48 class hours

PREREQUISITES:   F.A./F.Sc

The course emphasizes how to experience the social contact with the community, and how to mobilize community for the development of the school. The course includes wider issues including culture, gender, special needs, equity and equality and collaborative working condition within the school and community. This course will provide an orientation for the process of socialization and social development. It also emphasize on social factors which may affect education. This course has not only a theoretical perspective but some practical aspects as well, like community work, improving social interaction activities, and promotion of healthy environment.

This course covers the nature, characteristics, and functions of society and culture and cultural diversity. It highlights the nature, role and dynamics of group. It describes the concept, aims, factors and responsible agencies of socialization. It focuses on social institutions.

Course Objectives:

The overall objectives of this course are to:

• Teach students the importance and role of active citizenship in promoting a productive, harmonious and developed society/ world
• Educate students about the importance of concepts, skills and philosophy of community linkages in developing a sustainable society
• Inculcate the importance of community involvement for ensuring an improved, tolerant and generative society/ world
• Provide an opportunity to the students to develop their relationship with the community 

• Learning Outcomes:

  The primary outcome is inclusive development through active citizenship locally and globally. Moreover, the following are the detailed outcomes of the course based on the three domains of Bloom's Taxonomy i.e Affective, Psychomotor and Cognitive. The students will be able to: 

• Understand the overall organization of the society
• Recognize and exercise their rights, responsibilities and the significance of active citizenship in positive societal development
• Identify and critically evaluate social issues and implement practicable community based solutions
• Understand the concept of human rights and its significance
• Appreciate diverse viewpoints and inter-cultural harmony

• Social Action Project

• Introduction and planning of social action project
• Identification of problein (area mapping)
• Ethical considerations related to project
• Assessment of existing resources (material and non-material)
• Community-based project planning and action groups building
• Implementation (role division among action groups)
• Monitoring & evaluation (impact assessment / value enhancement)
• Practicum (list and number of practical/activities/projects/field visits etc): one field social action projec                                                                                                                                                             

Teaching Methods (propose more than one method according to the nature and scope of the course e.g.): 

• Lecturing
• Assignments
• Guest Speaker
• Field Visits
• Report Writing 
• Description of System of Evaluation (Formative/Summative) (Exams, assignments etc.)In order to pass the course and gain a certificate students should therefore:
• Individually complete a self-assessment exercise after the gaup work, showing the reflective and personal development aspects of the programme and their appreciation of the course learning;
• Participate in the design and planning of a social action project and provide evidence of this in the form of a group presentation, to a panel of peers, tutors and a community representative for feedback before implementing the project in the community.
• Compile a group report on the project process to a standard format at the end of the project commenting on: project outcomes, individual contributions and group learning. 
• The assessment criteria to evaluate your overall performance in the relevant course would be as under:

• Sessional 20%	Mid-term Exam 30%	Final-term Exam* 50%
  Assignment=5 Presentation=5 Attendance=5 Participation/Behaviour=5	Project/Term Paper Plan=5 Viva/Quiz=5 Paper=10+10=20	Seminar=10 Final Project/Term Paper Report=35 Viva=5

• *subject to the directions of university 
• Reference books 

• Anne Karin Larsen, Participation in Community Work: International Perspectives (Vishanthie Sewpaul, Grete Oline Hole, 2013)

  Alan Twelvetrees, Community Work (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)

  British Council, Active Citizen's Social Action Projects Guide (Scotland: British Council, 2017)

  Cathryn Berger Kaye, The Complete Guide to Service Learning: Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, & Social Action (Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing Inc., 2004)

Time table:

class: physics MSc 2nd: Monday 01 pm-02 pm Thursday 10 am-12 pm

class: physics bs 2nd : Tuesday 12pm-01:30 pm Wednesday 12pm-01:30pm