Syllabus
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Course Code: MSW(E) -312 Course Name: Urban Community Development: Policies and Programmes-I |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | - Urban Community: Concept and characteristics. - Growth of cities: Causes and consequences, different related concepts such as metropolis, towns, megapolis. - Urbanization: Concept, causes, process and significance for human development. - Urbanization and migration: Causes, consequences and checks on migration. |
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| 2 | - Urbanization in India: Demographic and occupational aspects, economic pattern. - Urbanization and social institutions such as marriage, family, education, religion and recreation. - Urbanization and economic development, urbanization and problems of social defense. - Social implications of urbanization: Emergence of urban slums; causes, growth and problems, life and living in slum, slum city relationship, different programmes related to slum. |
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| 3 | - Urban Community Development (UCD): Need, concept, historical development,
assumptions, philosophy, objectives, functional areas, methods and programmes of
urban community development, barriers of urban community development. - Public support in urban community development: Role of banks, industries and voluntary organizations in urban community development |
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| 4 | - Urban poverty: Nature and extent. - Factors and implications of urban poverty. - Developmental programmes for urban poor. - Review of urban planning in India. - Scope of social work intervention in urban development. |
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