Postgraduate - UnitAPG4571 - Human services management: Structure and context

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	School of Applied Media and Social Sciences, Gippsland
Offered	Gippsland Second semester 2013 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Karen Crinall

Notes

Previously coded HSM4303

Synopsis

This unit addresses the broad socio-cultural, political and physical contexts in which human service organisations are located. Students engage with, and critically reflect on the ideas and processes through which social, economic, political and juridical forces structure, define and legitimise the human services industry and human service organisations. Using case study and problem-based learning approaches, students examine the role, function, formation and resourcing of the human service organisation in rural, urban, regional and global contexts.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

conduct an environmental analysis of a human service organisation;
identify and discuss the various roles, functions and responsibilities of the human service organisation in rural, regional, urban and global contexts;
critically discuss the emergence of new forms of organisational structure in the human services sector; 4) apply relevant theory to analysis of the socio-cultural, political and economic contexts in which human service organisations operate;
identify and critically review appropriate funding options and sources and prepare a funding submission;
conduct a literature review