Undergraduate courses and subjects 2000 - School of Public Policy and Social Work

School of Public Policy and Social Work

General information
Behavioural studies
Human services
- Subjects offered
Police studies
- Subjects offered
Policy studies
- Subjects offered
Social work
- Subjects offered

General information

The school is the administrative presence of the Faculty of Arts on the Caulfield campus. The school administers all academic programs offered at Caulfield. Its undergraduate programs include the BA, BA (Police Studies), BA (Policy Studies), BA/Business double degrees, BA/Theology, BA/Information Management and Systems, Bachelor of Social Work and the Bachelor of Human Services. All courses apart from the BA and the BA/Theology are exclusive to Caulfield, however students from other campuses are encouraged to undertake subjects offered by the school.

Behavioural studies

The study of human behaviour can be undertaken from two broad perspectives, one based in the humanities and the other in the sciences. Monash University provides both.

Humanities

Students interested in human behaviour as a humanities-oriented stream of study can take the behavioural studies minor offered through the Faculty of Arts. This minor comprises subjects which have close links with other arts disciplines and arts-based professionally oriented courses such as social work, human services and police and justice studies.

Sequences

Behavioural studies is available as a minor or a first-year-level sequence to BA students and may be included in the compulsory 92 arts points for the Arts degree.
The subjects BHS1320 (Behavioural studies A) and BHS1340 (Behavioural studies B) are available on the Caulfield and Clayton campuses.
A minor in behavioural studies can be achieved by adding two of the following subjects:

· BHS2320 Personality: beyond the persona
· BHS2390 Practice skills
· BHS2030 Reading Freud and Jung
· BHS2400 Social psychology
· BHS2651 The unconscious in social life: psychoanalytic and feminist perspectives

Behavioural studies subjects may not be taken in conjunction with first-year psychology subjects.

Psychology

Students seeking a professional qualification should enrol in the subjects offered by the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Science. This program is accredited by the Australian Psychological Society and recognised by the Psychologists Registration Board of Victoria, and provides an avenue to the further training required to practice as a psychologist.

Human services

Subjects offered

All subjects marked (D) are likely to be disestablished by the end of 1999.

· BHS1320 Behavioural studies A
· BHS1340 Behavioural studies B
· BHS2390 Practice skills
· WEL1310 Human services: history and structures (D)
· WEL1330 Human services: methods and values (D)
· WEL1350 Law for human service workers (D)
· WEL2310 Human services: casework and groupwork (D)
· WEL2330 Human services: agency practice (D)
· WEL2350 Human services: field education A (D)
· WEL2370 Human services: field education B (D)
· WEL2410 Community work (D)
· WEL3110 Research methods for human services
· WEL3130 Human services: field education C
· WEL3210 Program planning, implementation and evaluation
· WEL3220 Human service organisations
· WEL3310 Advanced practice skills for human services A
· WEL3320 Advanced practice skills for human services B

Bachelor of Arts students are also permitted to undertake the following human services subjects if they are available (subject to prerequisites and availability): WEL3110 (Research methods for human services), WEL3210 (Program planning, implementation and evaluation) and WEL3220 (Human service organisations), WEL3310 (Advanced practice skills for human service workers A), WEL3320 (Advanced practice skills for human service workers B). These subjects, however, cannot be counted towards the compulsory 92 arts points.

Police studies

Police studies subjects are available within the specialised Bachelor of Arts (Police Studies) degree on the Caulfield campus, as well as to BA students on the Caulfield and Clayton campuses.

Subjects offered

· PCE1010 Police organisations and practice
· PCE1030 Legal and justice studies
· PCE2030 Comparative policing
· PCE2040 Legal regulation and social relationships
· PCE2050 Police, politics and community
· PCE2060 Ethical and professional policing
· PCE2070 Crime stories: criminology and crime fiction
· PCE2230 Corporate crime and corruption
· PCE2270 Victimology
· PCE3010 Law, society and public order
· PCE3020 Development of policing in Australia
· PCE3030 Comparative policing
· PCE3040 Research methods
· PCE3060 Ethical and professional policing
· PCE3070 Crime stories: criminology and crime fiction
· PCE4000 Thesis
· PCE4010 Policing, protest and politics
· PCE4020 Criminology, community justice and crime prevention
· PCE4030 The politics of police accountability

Policy studies

Subjects offered

· PCY1001 The policy context: Australian polity and society
· PCY1002 Public policy: theories and issues
· PCY2001 Ministers, minders and bureaucrats: the policy process
· PCY2002 Environmental management and policy
· PCY2003 Australian political economy
· PCY2004 Debating difference: gender, race and public policy
· PCY3001 Research methods for policy studies
· PCY3002 Policy internship

Social work

Social work subjects are available only within the context of the Bachelor of Social Work degree.

Subjects offered

· SWK3110 Social work I
· SWK3130 Social work perspectives on human development I
· SWK3150 Social work research I
· SWK3170 Fieldwork I
· SWK3190 Social policy and administration I
· SWK3120 Social work II
· SWK3180 Fieldwork II
· SWK3210 Contexts of social work practice I
· SWK4510 Social work III
· SWK4530 Social and behavioural studies I
· SWK4550 Fieldwork III
· SWK4570 Social policy and administration III
· SWK4610 Community health I
· SWK4520 Social work IV
· SWK4560 Fieldwork IV
· SWK4830 Contexts of social work practice II
· SWH4001 Research methodology for social work
· SWH4003 Honours dissertation
· SWH4002 The development of social work knowledge
· SWH4003 Honours dissertation