1. CD 180 - FIELD PRACTICE I Course Description: Supervised field practice for developing basic competencies in Community Development (9 units). Requires 750 hours of community-based work. Learning Goals: At the end of the practice course, students are able to: Integrate fully and identify with the lives and aspirations of the people, particularly the poor; Understand and analyse community power dynamics applying various lenses such as class, gender, SL, human rights, and other appropriate tools; identify bases of CD Programs and activities through participatory processes in research, planning and mobilization; Practice and critically assess various concepts, processes, methods, and approaches in community organizing; and Synthesize and document the fieldwork experience. Pre-requisite: Must have completed all classroom-based courses, including RGEP and PE; for foreign students, demonstrate proficiency in conversational Filipino

2. Course Content – CD 180 Course Outline: – Review of subject areas related to field placement contexts (e.g., CD concepts, strategies and tools in research, planning, CO, gender, etc.)

3. Syllabus Template 1.Course Content/Schedule 2.Methodology 3.Course Requirements and Grading 4.References Action Point: Each Faculty supervisor submits syllabus one week after deployment to chair and FIP coordinator Syllabi sharing during FIP committee meeting

4. CD 181: FIELD PRACTICE II Course Description: Supervised field practice for developing advanced competencies in Community Development (9 units). Requires 750 hours of community-based work. Learning Goals: In addition to the learning goals of CD 180, the students are able to: Critically assess development programs and activities in the community and recommend possible improvements and innovations that are responsive to differentiated community capacities, needs and aspirations; Facilitate the development/enhancement of knowledge and skills of community leaders and groups/organizations; Facilitate conceptualization, implementation and evaluation of appropriate development programs/ actions together with community groups/organizations; Synthesize and document fieldwork experiences in the context of people centered development (human rights-based, gender-responsive and sustainable) Relate experience to their own growth as CD professionals Pre-requisite: CD 180; for foreign students, demonstrate proficiency in conversational Filipino

5. CD 280 Course Description: Supervised field practice for developing specialized competencies in contemporary and emerging areas in Community Development anchored on strengthening community groups/organizations (3 units). Requires 250 hours of fieldwork. Learning Goals: At the end of the practice course, students are able to: develop critical analyses of community realities through exposure and reflection; apply skills in CD planning, CO, Community Leadership and Org Development responsive to the differentiated capacities, needs and aspirations of the community; facilitate the development/enhancement of competencies of community leaders, local groups/organizations, and partner agencies; relate CD to their own personal and professional experience towards enriching professional growth and practice ; synthesize, critique and innovate on fieldwork experiences towards theorizing on people centered development (human rights-based, gender-responsive and sustainable) Pre-requisite: Must have taken 21 units of CD core courses and 3 units of cognate or elective; for foreign students, demonstrate proficiency in conversational Filipino

6. Recap/Decisions Agreed policy on language req for foreign (formulate, process, resources available) Tata Incorporate changes to Revised Manual – Tata/Erwin/FIP com FSR revision – Erwin SET revsion – FIP com FIP com agenda: assessment/screening of placement sites, assigning supervision load, FIP orientation with agency and students, FIP resource generation (UGTFI, endowment etc), coordination bet supervisors and FB-instructors To schedule: Faculty Conference on supervision skills, sharing on grading practices Supervisors to submit FIP syllabus using template Preferably, FB-instructors have supervision load; closer coordination between instructor, supervisors and FIP com (attend meetings) 40% of FB-class grade is 180/181 1500 is an honoraria/rata to be claimed by FIP coordinator + faculty grant CD 280: summer full time students; regular sem, must commit minimum of 3 days a week for 10 weeks Cayetano fund: students’ accident insurance, FIP to set maximum limit for unfunded fieldwork projects of students Include FIP policies in student acad orientation (c/o SWAC