This course will enable the students to use and enhance skills and competencies by engaging themselves in community service.
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25MBAS129 |
Community Engagement Services (Practical-Field Work) |
CO47: Develop a report based on the analysis of needs and problems of the community in which they live and work. CO48: Develop and deliver comprehensive and engaging presentations based on the Investigations for finding practical solutions to community problems and Creation of awareness about various issues facing society. CO49: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction |
Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Group Discussion, field visit Learning activities for the students: Presentations |
Viva and Presentation |
Methodology:
The students will undertake Community Engagement Services in the semester. Various guest lectures, field visits, campaigns, workshops and seminars will be organized to fulfill the objectives of this paper. Students have to undertake a project related to the areas specified for the semester. At the end of each semester students will be evaluated on the basis of the project report related to the work done in the field of Community Engagement. Various community engagement activities for the semester are as follows:
Areas of Service: 30 Hrs
• Community Welfare Drive: Traffic Regulation, Road safety awareness program, Blood Donation, Organic Farming, Consumer awareness, Visit of special home, Skill Development, Energy Conservation, Literacy Program.
• Health, Hygiene & Sanitation Drive: Food and Nutrition, Concept of Balance Diet, Safe drinking water, Water borne diseases, Home Nursing and First Aid.
• Women Empowerment Drive: Self-Defense training, Vocational Training, Role of financial and support service Institutions, Women Entrepreneurship, Family Planning, Self-Employment Programs.
• Cleanliness Drive: Volunteering in Swatch Bharat Abhiyan, Awareness program, rallies, Waste Management. • Road Safety Drive: Road safety Campaigns, Creating Awareness on Roads, Rallies
E Resources:
Fostering Social Responsibility & Community Engagement in Higher Educational Institutions in India, University Grants Commission, January 2020, https://www.ugc.ac.in/e- book/UNNAT%20BHARAT%20ABHIYAN.pdf
Martha A. Walker, Community Engagement , https://www.uvm.edu/sites/default/files/community_engagement_handout.pdf, Virginia Cooperative Extension,
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (June 2011). Principles of community engagement. Second edition. http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/communityengagement/pdf/PCE_Report_508_FINAL.pdf
Journals:
• Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education
• Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
• International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement