Rural Sociology and Community Development | Makerere University Courses

Course Code:

AGE 7101

Course Credit Units:

Semester:

Semester 1

Year of Study:

Year 1

Undergraduate or Graduate Level:

Graduate Level

College:

College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

School:

School of Agricultural Sciences

Department:

Agribusiness and Natural Resource Economics

Course Discipline:

Agriculture

Course Description & Objectives:

The individual, group, and social system; socialization and social control. Traditional societies and peasant life. Population trends and changes in the emerging rural community and rural institutions. Types of farming systems. Theories of change; diffusion of innovations. Agencies of rural social and economic change. Education as a factor in social change; the relationship of education to social structure. Social action programs and popular participation. Rural development as integrated process to community development

Learning Outcomes:

Understand rural sociology and community development by studying and reflecting on these topics.
Analyze the most important characteristics of healthy, vibrant rural communities by describing and writing about them.
Understand how to support students’ own learning and how to help others learn how to support social change by studying and practicing ideas of rural sociology and community development.
Explain the actions students can take to research and improve both their professional practice and client participation in community development
Evaluate the appropriateness of particular rural sociology and community development theories for solving real world community problems.

Rural Sociology and Community Development

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