Community psychology is an internationally recognised sub-discipline of psychology which draws on the discipline of sociology in order to promote the well-being of the community generally; in addition, community psychology focuses on well-being of disadvantaged, marginalised and stigmatised individuals and groups through both ameliorative and transformative actions; community participation and positive social change are seen as the means to accomplishing this endeavour; particular emphasis of the course is given to the development of skills for designing interventions, raising awareness and evaluating initiatives; community psychology draws upon critical, liberal, feminist and human rights perspectives, along with the emerging discipline of positive psychology and is concerned with political processes and value-based enquiry; throughout the programme there is an emphasis on participative and liberatory action research with local people; the dissertation element of the programme may take the form of a community project which permits the students to actively combine a critical theoretical analysis with reflexive experiential work.