0019 - Master of Social Work

This course entry should be read in conjunction with information provided in the Faculty information section of this Handbook by the managing faculty for this course

Abbreviated title	MSocWk
CRICOS Code	042517A
Managing faculty	Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Study location and mode	Off-campus (Caulfield) On-campus (Caulfield)
Total credit points required	48
Duration (years)	1 year FT, 2 years PT This course is normally taken part-time over two years.
Contact details	Telephone +61 3 9903 2610; fax +61 3 9903 1141; email social.work@med.monash.edu.au or visit http://www.med.monash.edu.au/socialwork/postgraduate/msw.html
Course coordinator	Mr Ralph Hampson

Description

The course, offered by the Department of Social Work, provides an opportunity for human service and welfare professionals to enhance and develop their professional skills and knowledge and to make links between practice in the field and new academic knowledge and theory. It aims to provide for the needs of managers and policy developers as well as social workers or others involved directly with clients. It also aims to cater for human service professionals who work as middle managers and supervisors.

Objectives

The objectives of the course are to enable students to:

gain knowledge in professional areas that are not covered in the social work undergraduate curriculum
integrate that knowledge with past and present work experience
deepen specialised practice knowledge and skills from a greater focus on selected areas, including the acquisition of new research based clinical and program interventions
acquire advanced specialised research knowledge and skills that will allow students to develop research based practice at the clinical, program and policy levels for newly emerging problem and service areas.

Structure

Students complete four 12-point units.

Requirements

Chose four of:*

SWM5110 Advanced casework practice
SWM5120 Criminology and social work
SWM5130 Social and community service organisations, their behaviour and management
SWM5140 Policy, program planning and evaluation I**
SWM5150 Policy, program planning and evaluation II**
SWM5160 Child abuse, child protection and child in society
SWM5170 Special research study
SWM5180 Management of human resources in the social services
SWM5190 Social work research
SWM5200 Health and social work
SWM5220 Social work and aged care
SWM5230 Social workers, politics and social action
SWM5250 Cinical supervision - becoming a professional developer

* Units may be offered in either semester one or semester two. Please check availability prior to enrolment.

** SWM5140 and SWM5150 (Policy, program planning and evaluation I and II) are sequential units. Students enrolling in these units usually take both in the same year, however SWM5140 may be undertaken separately.

Award(s) received on completion ^*

Master of Social Work

* Where more than one award is listed, or in the case of double degrees, where more than one award is listed for one or both components of the double degree, the actual award/s conferred may depend on units/majors/streams/specialisations studied, the level of academic merit achieved (eg in the case of 'with honours' programs), or other factors relevant to the individual student's program of study.