Undergraduate - Course4076 - Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling and Diploma of Disability

This accredited course equips students for competent and ethical community welfare and counselling practice. The degree develops skills and knowledge for intervention across a range of practice fields, including, but not limited to: counselling, child protection, disability, family support, homelessness, community corrections, youth justice, community development, aged care, family violence, and research and policy analysis. The study program includes interpersonal counselling and group work skills, community development practice, case management and organisational practice as well as developing a strong knowledge base in social justice.

Students must complete a structured sequence in community welfare and counselling, and two practice placements in a wide range of community development and human service organisations. Students will also complete a complementary arts minor in Australian Indigenous studies, psychological studies, psychology, criminal justice or sociology, and a specialisation in disability through GippsTAFE.

The completion of the diploma meets the professional requirement of the Victorian Department of Human Services for its employees working in this field.

Students receive both of awards from the respective institutions upon successful completion of the program.

Refer to the outcomes for the single degree 1731 Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling.

Students are required to undertake a 20-day field education placement and a 60-day block field placement during this course.

This course is accredited by the Australian Community Workers Association (ACWA) and the Diploma meets the professional requirement of the Victorian Department of Human Services for its employees working in this field.

This course consists of a community welfare and counselling sequence, four compulsory units, a complementary arts minor and additional studies in arts. Students also complete a disability specialisation which is undertaken through GippsTAFE in flexible face-to-face and online mode. Students must complete 132 points in the Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling, and five modules in the Diploma of Disability component, equivalent to 12 points.

• Australian Indigenous studies
• Community welfare and counselling
• Criminal justice
• Psychological studies
• Psychology
• Sociology

Note: the following are available minor disciplines: Australian Indigenous studies, criminal justice, psychological studies, psychology and sociology.

Students must complete:

(a.) a community welfare and counselling sequence (66 points):

• ATS1361 Governing inequality: Foundations of social welfare provision
• ATS1362 Interpersonal practice and counselling skills practice
• ATS1363 Counselling and group work skills
• ATS2822 Advanced counselling and case management
• ATS2823 Community development
• ATS2825 Social issues and personal values
• ATS3848 Insights into practice
• ATS3713 Field education and practice (12 points)
• ATS3850 Human services management and practice
• ATS3851 Social policy

(b.) four compulsory supporting units (24 points):

(i.) Students must complete:

• ATS1251 Introduction to Australian Indigenous studies
• ATS1367 Sociological reflections on everyday life
• ATS2260 Developmental psychology: Behaviour across the lifespan*

(ii.) Plus one of:

• ATS2364 Indigenous Australian politics and activism
• ATS2367 Australian Indigenous women
• ATS2369 Indigenous Australian human rights
• ATS2737 Social justice

(c.) a TAFE Diploma of Disability specialisation comprising five modules (12 points)

(d.) a complementary minor in one of the available disciplines listed under 'Areas of study' (24 points)

(e.) a further 18 points in arts, including 6 points at first-year level

Students must complete a minimum of 36 points at third-year level.

No more than 10 units (60 points) are to be completed at a first-year level.

Arts elective units can be identified using the browse units toolbrowse units tool (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/search) and indexes of arts unitsindexes of arts units (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/index-byfaculty-arts.html) in the current edition of the Handbook. The level of the unit is indicated by the first number in the unit code; undergraduate units are those that commence with the code ATS and numbers 1-3.

* Students who choose to complete a minor in psychology must replace ATS2260 (Developmental psychology) with PSY2031 (Developmental and biological psychology).

Bachelor of Community Welfare and Counselling