Monash University Handbook 2010 Undergraduate - Course

This course prepares graduates with the necessary skills, knowledge and value base for competent community and social welfare practice in a wide range of settings. Emphasis is placed on the practical and vocational elements of professional practice.

Graduates are expected to develop:

• the intellectual capabilities inherent in the interpretation of sources of knowledge pertaining to the academic discipline
• an understanding of the world view of the field of study
• the capacity for quantitative and qualitative analysis, critique and creative thinking in the discipline
• an understanding of the present interpretations and potential future developments in the issues underlying the content of and approaches to the field of study
• the skills of written and oral presentation, argument and analysis, including other practical skills such as computer skills, appropriate to the academic discipline.

Students are required to undertake a 16-day field education placement and a 60-day field placement during this course.

This course is recognised by the Australian Institute of Welfare and Community Workers.

This course consists of five compulsory units, a major sequence in social and community welfare and two electives.

Students complete the following:

(a.) a prescribed sequence in social and community welfare (54 points):

• SCW1302 Governing inequality: Foundations of social welfare provision
• SCW1303 Foundations of interpersonal practice
• SCW1304 Communication and group skills
• SCW2303 Case management theory and practice
• SCW2304 Community development
• SCW2306 Field education and practice
• SCW2307 Human services management and practice
• SCW2311 Social issues and personal values

(b.) three compulsory supporting units at level one (18 points):

• AIS1011 Introduction to Australian Indigenous societies
• PSS1712 Behaviour across the lifespan
• SCY1801 Sociological reflections on everyday life

(c.) TSD1611 Understanding university learning, and one first-year elective (12 points)

(d.) one compulsory supporting unit at level two from the following (6 points):

• AIS2025 Activism, politics and Indigenous Australia
• AIS2170 Australian Indigenous women
• SCY2811 Social justice
• AIS2808 Human rights and the Indigenous Australian experience

(e.) a further 6 points in arts at level two

On successful completion of this course, students may apply to upgrade to one of the following courses:

• 1731 Bachelor of Social and Community Welfare
• 1806 Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Social and Community Welfare
• 1802 Bachelor of Arts (Journalism) and Bachelor of Social and Community Welfare
• 1798 Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) and Bachelor of Social and Community Welfare

Associate Degree in Social and Community Welfare