This course is designed to provide you with a critical understanding of theoretical and practical developments in, and approaches?to, group and community work. This course introduces you to group work processes especially as they relate to community level practice. Key concepts to be explored include the important definitions of communities and differences in types and styles of participation and leadership. You will develop skills in group work facilitation using a critical practice framework that informs both group and community level practice. A focus on social justice will provide a philosophical underpinning in the course; critical social work perspectives will provide the overarching theoretical framework with attention to race, gender, culture and other power dimension in community work and group processes and dynamics. Through building a community of practice among your peers you will identify core principles of ethical community work and explore the role of group and community work in active and participatory citizenship