units

ATS3713

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 26 April 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Arts
OfferedGippsland First semester 2014 (Off-campus)
Gippsland Second semester 2014 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)Cathy Trembath

Notes

Previously coded SCW3306

Synopsis

Students are placed in a welfare or community setting for a 60 day block placement designed to integrate experiential learning with the professional theory, knowledge and skills that they have learned throughout the course. Students completing this unit are ready to enter the field as beginning professionals. The community welfare and counselling teaching staff visit at least twice during placement to facilitate the learning process. Each student is supervised by a qualified field educator and is assigned a liaison person. Full-time students must undertake this unit in semester two.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. demonstrate an understanding of welfare practice through participation in the ongoing work of an agency;
  2. integrate and apply relevant knowledge and skills in a practice setting;
  3. critically evaluate their values, attitudes and beliefs and the ways in which these can influence their practice;
  4. analyse and critique their role as an agent of change in social and community welfare practice.

Assessment

Pre-placement assignment (750 words);
Learning plan (2000 words);
Field educator report (1500 words);
Mid-placement report (750 words);
Field education assignment (4000 words) equivalent assessment.

Note: to obtain a pass in the unit, students will be required to pass each piece of work (the unit will be assessed as pass grade only).

Chief examiner(s)

Cathy Trembath

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Community welfare and counselling

Prerequisites

ATS2822 and ATS2823

Co-requisites

ATS3848

Prohibitions

ATS2713, GSC2306, GSC3306, SCW2306, SCW3306