Undergraduate - UnitSWK3230 - Social work research

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 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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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	Department of Social Work
Monash Passport category	Research Challenge (Investigate Program)
Offered	Caulfield First semester 2015 (Day) Caulfield First semester 2015 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Catherine Flynn

Synopsis

This unit covers the place of research in social work and in the development of social work knowledge; the process and utilisation of social work research, the most commonly used social work research techniques and skills, emphasising how the various quantitative and qualitative methods may be synthesised within the one research project, and quantitative and qualitative data analysis.

Outcomes

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

articulate the place of research in social work;
understand and articulate the most commonly used research techniques in social work and the skills required to implement them;
demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate existing research literature;
understand and demonstrate the capacity to use common data analysis techniques.

Assessment

Critique of a published research article (750 words) (15%)
Identification of social problem, review of literature and development of a research question (1,500 words) (35%)
Proposed methodology (2,250 words) (50%)

Workload requirements

3 hours per week.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Catherine Flynn

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

Social work

Prerequisites

Completion of 48 points at first-year level. Social Work units are available only within the context of the Bachelor of Social work degree, or with permission.

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.med.monash.edu.au/socialwork/