Gain practical humanitarian and community development skills with the Humanitarian Practice intensive unit available through the Bachelor of Humanitarian and Community Studies degree. CDU and industry experts RedR team up to deliver this engaging four week intensive unit.
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[ADRIANA STIBRAL – COURSE COORDINATOR, BACHELOR OF HUMANITARIAN AND COMMUNITY STUDIES] I’m Adriana Stibral. I work as a lecturer and Course Coordinator for the Bachelor of Humanitarian and Community Studies at Charles Darwin University.RedR Australia is one of the leading humanitarian aid organizations, and the professional alliance we have entered with RedR here at CDU, it doesn’t exist at an undergrad level at any other Australian university. The four-week intensive that we deliver – Introduction to Humanitarian Practice – it prepares students for working in the field, so it really is challenging, but yet it’s a great learning opportunity to really have a bit of a taste of what the international emergency response environment might look like.
[PAULA FITZGERALD – TRANING MANAGER, REDR AUSTRALIA] Our main focus with working with CDU is to ensure that the students who participate in the course have as real an understanding of the humanitarian sector as possible, and we do that through the theory, of course, but practicing in as real a simulation setting as we can provide. [MATTHEW OWEN – STUDENT] The hands-on activities, plus the theory behind it, really backed up what we had to learn through the four-week intensive, and meeting people through RedR, and meeting those connections and understanding that support network really opened my eyes to what the humanitarian sector is and how to get involved in that sector. [PAULA] So you might notice in our simulations that there are people dressed in all different kind of garb. We have volunteers taking on roles that people may encounter in a humanitarian setting, so we try and capture that, just in some of our costuming. [MATTHEW] We did a lot of different simulations that you would be exposed to in the field. [DANIVAH BARIGYE – STUDENT] We did various simulating exercises, some of which were building tents in the camp and how to respond to an emergency like kidnap. [MATTHEW] We had people from Nauru and different areas, in Yemen, around the world, coming and sharing stories about their work in the sector. [DANIVAH] Doing this unit has given me the practical skills and the hands-on skills to be able to use in my future employment as a humanitarian worker. [END TRANSCRIPT]humanitarian,community,community studies,humanitarian studies,charles darwin university,cdu,RedR