This course will enable the studentsto get hands-on experience in engaging with rural communities, empowering them to become effective agents of change. Through practical learning experiences, critical reflection, and engagement with community stakeholders, students will develop the skills, knowledge, and values necessary to promote sustainable development in rural areas.
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25MSW 225 |
Social Work Practicum:Rural Community Engagement (Practical) |
CO61: Examine the needs and challenges of rural society. CO62: Develop Skills for preparing development plans. CO63: Develop skills for participatory learning in rural community CO64: Develop a perspective for optimum utilization and management of rural Resources CO65: Able to mobilize rural community and conduct empowerment activities. CO66: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction |
Approach in teaching: Discussion, Feedback, Field Trip, Field activities, Library Work, Simulation, Presentation Learning activities for the students: Self- learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation |
Presentation, Report writing, Viva- Voce |
Contents:
Conduction:
Students shall be taken to villages to study the needs and problems of ruralsocieties. They are required to prepare a detailed report of the visit and various plans related to village development and present it in a seminar on the basis of which they shall be assessed.
· ANDERSON, W. A. Dwight Sanderson, rural socialbuilder. Rur. Sociol. 11(1): 7-14. Mar. 1946.281.28 R88Sanderson's contributions to the science of rural socialorganization.
· BONE, H. A. I. The small rural community: itslife and education. II. The Rural Education Departmentof the Illinois State Normal University. 111. State NormalUniv. Normal School Quart., Ser. 18, No. 76, 51 p.Normal, July 1920. Libr. Cong. LB1861 .N5A53Pt. I outlines the concept of the rural community basedon consolidated school districts and including the ruralvillage and the country town, and discusses some of theeducational needs of this type of community.
· BURCHFIELD, L. Our rural communities; a guidebookto published materials on rural problems. 201 p.Chicago, Pub. Admin. Serv., 1947. 281.2 B89Ch. 12, Community organization, p. 169-179.
· BURR, W. Present status and tendencies in ruralcommunity organizatoin. Natl. Country Life Conf. Proc.(1922)5:185-192. New York, 1923. 281.2 N213Based on replies to letters to directors of extensionand professors of rural sociology.
BURR, W. Rural organization. 250 p. New York,Macmillan, 1921. 281.2 B94In three parts: 1. General principles
Links:
[1] https://sociology.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/social-work-practicum-rural-community-engagement-0
[2] https://sociology.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-session/2025-26