WS3011 - Applied Social Policy

Credit points:	03
Year:	2007
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	Discipline of Social Work & Community Welfare

This subject focuses on the politics of community work and community work as a political activity. The subject explores the social and political context of practice; the nature of contemporary social policy formulation and the forces that influence and shape its development; and community and social policy practice skills.

Learning Outcomes

• be able to articulate a range of policy practice skills to intervene in the policy process;
• be able to undertake a straightforward social policy analysis;
• be familiar with a number of competing models of social policy;
• be familiar with a range of key concepts, values, principles and choices employed in the study and analysis of social needs and social policy;
• have a broad understanding of the range of political structures, issues and ideological imperatives impacting upon community based practice;
• have a good understanding of the political ideologies underlying social policy and various models of welfare provision;
• have an understanding from various sociological insights into the way social problems become selected as targets for social policy and or community work intervention.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively;
• The ability to use and interpret different media;
• The ability to use a variety of media and methods to retrieve, analyse, evaluate, organise and present information.

Prerequisites:	WS1001 WS1003 or WS1005 or permission of HoS
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	WS4502

Availabilities
External, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Coordinator:	Dr Joanne Baker
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures 26 hours tutorials
Method of Delivery:	CDROM
Assessment:	assignments.
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Coordinator:	Dr Joanne Baker
Contact hours:	26 hours tutorials
Assessment:	presentations (40%); media journal of a current political commentary with analysis from reading guide and text/s (60%).
Mackay, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Coordinator:	Dr Joanne Baker
Lecturer:	Mrs Lynne O'Keefe Daly.
Contact hours:	26 hours tutorials
Assessment:	presentations (40%); media journal of a current political commentary with analysis from reading guide and text/s (60%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.