WS4510:04
Social Work in a Global Environment
Townsville, Cairns
Prerequisites: WS3511
78 seminars or the equivalent in mixed mode on-campus delivery. First semester.
Available to level 4 BSW students.
Staff: Mr P Jones (Townsville campus); Ms G Galloway, Mrs D Nilsson (Cairns campus).
This subject extends students’ understanding of social work as political practice which simultaneously impacts at individual, group, local, regional, national and international levels.
A social development framework is developed as the overarching theoretical base. The focus is on eight levels of professional practice: individual empowerment, group empowerment, conflict resolution, community building, institution building, nation building, region building and world building.
Learning Objectives:
- recognise the linkages between local, national and global issues from a social development perspective and understand the necessity of a global perspective within the social work profession;
- develop a practice framework which integrates the social, political and economic aspects of social issues.
In addition students will have met the following skills objectives:
- developed skills in strategising social work action from a sustainable social development perspective;
- developed skills for functioning as a practitioner in the current managerialist context;
- developed skills in conflict resolution, negotiation, mediation, advocacy, listening, group building, social action, conscientisation, participation, social animation and media use;
- established and developed useful links, including international links, with other organisations and individuals as part of their development of knowledge and skills in a global context.
Assessment will be partly negotiable but is likely to be fairly equally divided between workshop presentations, a written project/assignment and student participation.