WS2121 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Skills and Frameworks for Practice
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 1 |
| Administered by: | College of Arts, Society & Education |
The aim of this subject is to prepare Indigenous and non-Indigenous students to work respectfully alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples by providing students with culturally appropriate skills and theoretical frameworks. Students will be encouraged to develop a critical awareness of the unique, complex, historical and contemporary relationships between social work and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples including social structures, systems, inequities and injustices, and how to apply professional knowledge and skills to address injustices.
Learning Outcomes
- have a critical appreciation of the unique, complex, historical and contemporary relationships between social work and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and the impact of these relationships;
- demonstrate an ability to articulate distinctive Aboriginal and Torres Strait Isalnder approaches to helping;
- demonstrate an ability to work alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and apply professional knowledge and skills to address social barriers and injustice;
- have critical awareness of their own cultural and historical socialisation and how this socialisation may fit with, or be different from, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge and values, and therefore how their socialisation can impact on their professional practice.
| Assumed Knowledge: | WS1006 have successfully completed 12 credit points (four subjects) of level 1 study at tertiary level |
| Prerequisites: | To undertake this subject, students must have successfully completed 12 credit points (four subjects) of level 1 study at tertiary level OR (admitted to course code 103804 and allow concurrent enrolment in WS5516) |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | WS2020 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 22-Mar-2018 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Narayan Gopalkrishnan, Assoc. Professor Susan Gair |
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| Assessment: | autobiographical journal (50%); reflective practice statement (50%). |
| Cairns, Limited, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 22-Mar-2018 | |
| Face to face teaching (3 day workshop Thursday 19th April to Saturday 21st April 2018 (dates inclusive)) | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Susan Gair |
| Contact hours: |
|
| Assessment: | autobiographical journal (50%); reflective practice statement (50%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 22-Mar-2018 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Narayan Gopalkrishnan, Assoc. Professor Susan Gair |
| Contact hours: |
|
| Assessment: | autobiographical journal (50%); reflective practice statement (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.