Monash University Handbook 2011 Postgraduate - Course

The degree provides an opportunity for social workers 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 involved in direct work with clients. The course provides sufficient choice for students to specialise in management and policy development or in direct work with clients. For this reason students are free to choose from a wide range of subjects within the Master of Social Work program.

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.

This course comprisesfour 12-point units

Chose four of:

• SWM5110 Advanced casework practice
• SWM5120 Criminology and social work
• 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
• SWM5241 Mental health practice
• SWM5250 Cinical supervision - becoming a professional developer
• SWM5260 Gender, climate change and social sustainability

* Students wishing to undertake SWM5150 must first have completed SWM5140.

Master of Social Work