Graduate Diploma of Arts (Social Welfare)

• General information
• General
• Entry requirements
• Course structure and duration
  • Level one
    • First semester
    • Second semester
  • Level two
    • First semester
    • Second semester

General information

Course code: 1734

General

This course provides a vocational qualification in social welfare for people already holding an undergraduate degree (three years) including a first level sequence in sociology, psychology or behavioural studies.
Students will undertake eight specific subjects (sixty-four points) from within the Bachelor of Social Welfare which will provide an accredited qualification for employment in the field of social welfare.
The graduate diploma will be offered by distance education only, and students will be required to undertake a sixty-day field education placement during the second year.

Entry requirements

As well as the above, student selection will include assessment of the applicant's suitability for welfare. A course administration form should be obtained from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Course structure and duration

The following subjects will be undertaken over a period of two years by distance education.

Level one

First semester

• GSC2303 Case management theory and practice
• GSC2308 Advanced interpersonal practice

Second semester

• GSC2304 Community development
• GSC2309 Human services organisations: practice, planning and development

Level two

First semester

• GSC3306 Field education and practice (credit value sixteen points - full-year subject)

Second semester

• GSC3303 Insights into practice
• GSC3304 Paradigms of practice

Details of these subjects are contained in the social welfare entry.

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