Community and Place

This module aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to undertake a community profile, focusing on the use of written historical sources, oral history material, and recent and historical demographic data.  It endeavours, through a combination of digital mapping technology and more traditional methods, to access and collate material relating to a community’s past.  An appreciation of a community’s past has a bearing on our capacity to understand the present and plan for the future, in addition to contributing to sense of place.

1. Analyse the written and oral evidence for a community’s past.

2. Identify and employ a range of relevant sources to compile a community profile.

3. Prepare documentation for the community profile to a professional standard using different media.

4. Demonstrate an ability to use digital mapping for community and youth work projects.