James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2002

WS2018:04

Field Education Project Distance Education

Townsville, Mackay

HECS Band 1

80 hours field work. Semester 2. Flexible delivery. Semester 2 (Mackay campus).

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:

  1. provide the opportunity for students to practise and demonstrate individual contribution to group processes and tasks;
  2. develop an understanding of the political processes and implications involved in social change;
  3. provide an opportunity for students to learn to use consultation;
  4. develop a beginning understanding of the way in which welfare/community organisations operate;
  5. ability to identify and discuss use of basic communication skills in relation to the project;
  6. provide students with the opportunities to practise their capacity to complete exploratory interviews in relation to the group project;
  7. develop skills in time and resource management;
  8. develop skills in negotiation;
  9. apply basic research methodologies to a field project.

Assessment by learning plan; task agreement; journal and statement of learning.