WS3515 - Social Work and Welfare Practice
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 1 |
| Administered by: | School of Arts & Social Sciences |
Available to BSW and BCW students only or by permission of Head of School.
This subject will focus on the various contexts and discourses that influence social welfare practice and introduce students to structural analyses such as feminist, socialist and anti -racist frameworks. Students will be encouraged to consider the challenges that confront practice informed by such frameworks and develop skills and competencies in core social welfare processes such as assessment, intervention, evaluation, brokerage, mediation and advocacy.
Learning Outcomes
- Upon successful completion of this subject, students will: understand the various frameworks/ discourses that influence the Australian welfare sector and the impact, tensions and demands created by these frameworks for social welfare service users and workers;
- demonstrate an understanding of structural frameworks for practice;
- demonstrate an ability to undertake and engage in the core processes of social welfare practice;
- consider strategies to assist in the development of personal resilience in a changing and challenging work context.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
- A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area.
| Assumed Knowledge: | To undertake this subject, students must have successfully completed 12 credit points (four subjects) of level 1 study at tertiary level |
| Prerequisites: | WS2510 AND WS2511 |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | WS3512 WS3516 |
Availabilities | |
| External, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 24-Mar-2011 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Ms Beth Tinning. |
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| Method of Delivery: | Printed materials |
| Assessment: | assignments. |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 24-Mar-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Ms Beth Tinning |
| Lecturer: | Ms Ines Zuchowski. |
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| Assessment: | presentations (50%); assignments (50%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 24-Mar-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Ms Beth Tinning |
| Lecturer: | Mr Peter Garrity. |
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| Assessment: | presentations (50%); assignments (50%). |
| Mackay, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 24-Mar-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Ms Beth Tinning |
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| Assessment: | presentations (50%); assignments (50%). |
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.