WS2018:04
*NOTE* Field Education Project Distance Education
Townsville
80 hours field work. Second semester. Flexible delivery. Also offered at Mackay campus in second semester.
Available to BCW distance education students.
Staff:
Dr J Thomson (Townsville campus).
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.