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WS2511:03

Professional Values and Ethics

[Offered each year on campus, offered in even-numbered years by External mode]

Townsville, Cairns, Mackay, External

HECS Band 1

26 hours tutorials. Semester 1.

Staff:

Professor R Thorpe (Townsville campus and Mackay);

Ms G Galloway (Cairns campus).

This subject studies the values and ethics which underpin professional practice in social work and community welfare, in the context of social and moral philosophy.

Learning Objectives:

understanding of alternative philosophical perspectives on the nature of ethics;

knowledge and understanding of the values, principles and standards of practice articulated in the professional codes of ethics;

ability to analyse value conflicts and ethical dilemmas in order to identify ethical professional action.

Assessment by tutorial presentation and defence (written paper for External students) (50%); written paper (50%).