WS2018:04
Field Education Project Distance Education
Townsville
Prerequisites: WS2011 or WS2019
Inadmissable Subject Combination: WS2016 WS3016
80 hours field work. Second semester. Flexible delivery. Also offered at Mackay campus.
Available to BCW distance education students.
Staff:
Ms R Bone.
Students will engage in a community project, in groups concerned with identifying social needs, linking needs with resources and program development, implementation and/or evaluation.
Learning Objectives:
- provide the opportunity for students to practise and demonstrate individual contribution to group processes and tasks;
- develop an understanding of the political processes and implications involved in social change;
- provide an opportunity for students to learn to use consultation;
- develop a beginning understanding of the way in which welfare/community organisations operate;
- ability to identify and discuss use of basic communication skills in relation to the project;
- provide students with the opportunities to practise their capacity to complete exploratory interviews in relation to the group project;
- develop skills in time and resource management;
- develop skills in negotiation;
- apply basic research methodologies to a field project.
Assessment by learning plan; task agreement; journal and statement of learning.
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