Undergraduate - UnitATS3848 - Insights into practice

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	School of Applied Media and Social Sciences, Gippsland
Offered	Gippsland First semester 2013 (Day) Gippsland First semester 2013 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Debra Manning

Notes

Previously coded SCW3303

Synopsis

This unit focuses on theory, research and practice issues pertaining to a major approach to social and community welfare practice. We study theories of oppression and approaches to anti-oppressive and transformative practice at individual, community, structural and cultural levels. Particular emphasis is on transformative counselling approaches and strategies to promote organisational and social change in fields including disability, child protection and violence against women.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit students will have developed:

An understanding of anti-oppressive and transformative theories critical to individual, community and organisational social and community welfare practice;
An awareness of the centrality of personal and cultural values and beliefs in approaches to practice in counselling, community development, and policy work;
Skills in critical analysis and research methods in a specific theoretical and practice context.