Bachelor Of Arts In Community Development

This programme is intended to raise development practitioners who through dynamic leadership will mobilise communities, create awareness and set an agenda for development that is holistic, equitable and sustainable. These leaders will spearhead change in communities by empowering people to recognize their potential and utilize it in ways that bring about transformation. Although the subject of transforming society has dominated the development agendas of many African countries since independence, success remains elusive.

Poverty has become endemic and Africa’s hope for a brighter future is under threat. Therefore, a more concerted approach to community transformation, one that focuses on empowering people themselves to become agents of the change they want is our greatest hope.

The programme is specifically designed to:

• Enable the student to model a Christ-like character in leadership by exercising integrity, servant-hood, and compassion.
• Equip the student with a clear understanding of factors that influence community development, thus enabling him/her work with communities to identify, analyze and apply appropriate development strategies that lead to community well-being.
• Acquaint the student with issues of governance in relation to development and the mechanisms government employs to accomplish its community development programmes. This will enable him/her to liaise between government and the community to realize development.
• Enable the student to acquire cutting-edge knowledge and skills on community development interventions so that they can pursue excellence in the holistic development of communities.
• Equip the student to demonstrate an understanding of civil society organizations and their role in influencing community development.
• Enable the student to acquire appropriate skills and knowledge for resource identification, mobilization and utilization so as to facilitate sustainable community development.
• Ground the student with knowledge regarding the multi-faceted causes of poverty and underdevelopment from a global perspective.
• Enable the student to integrate the Christian faith into community development from a biblical perspective that seeks to meet the needs of the whole person.
• Equip the student to play a role in influencing the formulation and application of appropriate policies that facilitate community transformation.
• Adequately equip the student with skills for social research that can be used as a basis for community interventions.

• Uganda Certificate of Education (‘O’ Level) with a minimum of five (5) passes and Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (‘A’ Level) with a minimum of two principal passes (Preferably but not limited to Literature, History, or Economics,) obtained at the same sitting or its equivalent.

The minimum requirement for direct entry from the 8-4-4 system shall be C+ or its equivalent.

Requirements for the Diploma Holders’ Entry Scheme:

• A relevant Diploma (with an upper second) or credit obtained from an institution recognized by National Council for Higher Education or its equivalent.

Requirements for Mature Age Entry Scheme

• A pass of 50 per cent or higher in Mature Age examination, obtained and certified from a centre recognized by National Council for Higher Education.