Understanding of development concepts and theories, community development methods, community development techniques, the relationship between community development methods and techniques, review of several community development methods and techniques. Understanding the conditions and problems of people‘s lives in Indonesia as a basis for and reviewing theories and approaches as well as methods and techniques for community development. Indicators of success in this course are students being able to understand the concepts and theories of community development, community development methods, being able to study the relationship between community development methods and techniques and being able to review community development methods and techniques. The community development course aims to equip students to have basic patterns in developing diversity of empowerment that originates from community potential. The complexity of events that occur in social life requires the younger generation to have creativity to generate enthusiasm in developing human resources and local potential in order to realize community independence. To achieve this goal, the lecture material that will be discussed is: Basic concepts of development, community empowerment and community self-reliance in the context of community development, Community Empowerment through PNPM, Community Self-Sufficiency Agency, Community Development Principles and Capital, Analysis of community development needs in the context conventional development and community-based development, participation, group dynamics, factors supporting community development, analysis of community development program implementation. The learning methods used are lectures, discussions, presentations, case studies and assignments.