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WS4510:03

Social Work in a Global Environment

Townsville, Cairns, Mackay, External

HECS Band 1

39 hours seminars or the equivalent in mixed mode on-campus delivery. Semester 1.

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 by written assignment (40%); individual reflective folio (40%); in-class assessment (20%).