Bachelor of Arts in Community Development

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Rationale

The curriculum for a Community Development major is designed to equip an undergraduate student with integrated knowledge and skills that he/she may apply in a wide range of community development situations. The programme’s aim is to develop a worker who has both a high degree of creativity and leadership skills, and who understands that community development work is holistic and involves all aspects of community life (spiritual, economic, social, political).

Requirements

Applicants to the Bachelor of Arts in Community Development must fulfil entry requirements that apply to all Daystar undergraduate students, i.e. An overall minimum grade of C+ in KCSE or at least 4 credits in IGCSE with at least 2 credit passes at 'A' level/GCE .

or its equivalent in any one of the following subjects: economics, CRE or social ethics.
Specifically, the goals of the major are:
  • equip the student with skills and techniques of involving communities in planning, implementation and evaluation of plans towards the attainment of their goals at the individual, group and community levels;
  • enable the student to integrate his/her Christian ministry with development, addressing the diverse needs at the individual, group and community levels;
  • present community development to the student from a Christian ministry perspective, emphasizing the concept that it involves meeting the needs of the whole person— spiritual,physical, emotional, social and material;
  • enable the student to carry out social science research which will serve as a valid basis for the development of new social policies and programmes;
  • enable the student to introduce appropriate methods and practices for preventing and overcoming human poverty, ignorance and disease;
  • adequately equip the student with knowledge and skills for better conceptualization and articulation of development issues; and
  • prepare the student for employment in Christian, nongovernmental, public and private sector organizations in community development positions.
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