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SWK3220

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 23 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Organisational Unit

Department of Social Work

Coordinator(s)

Professor Margaret Alston

Offered

Caulfield

  • First semester 2016 (Day)
  • First semester 2016 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

This unit offers an overview of the history and contemporary context of social work practice within a framework of understanding the connection between social issues, policy development and strategies for sustainable change at both local and global levels. The unit is underpinned by notions of social justice and human rights and offers a preview of topics that will be studied in greater depth in subsequent units within the course.

Outcomes

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

  1. Describe the nature of social work in a range of contexts and settings as well as describe contemporary debates about the nature of social work.
  2. Critically analyse the ethical value base of social work with particular reference to human rights and the promotion of social justice.
  3. Critically analyse key global social policy issues including, but not limited to, mass movement of people, climate change, reconstruction, and poverty.
  4. Critically review and analyse contemporary trends in the delivery of social work services.
  5. Articulate the nature of social change and the strategies to achieve this.

Assessment

Online quiz (1,000 words) (10%)
Class presentation / problem framing (2,500 words) (30%)
Annotated bibliography (2,500 words) (60%) (Hurdle)

Workload requirements

Weekly schedule (6 week teaching semester on campus)

  • six (6) hours per week
  • four (4) hours of lectures per week (2 x 2 hour lectures)
  • two (2) hours of Applied Learning Seminar (1 x 2 hour seminar)
  • 18 hours of self-directed learning in the forms of reading, assignment preparation and online contemplation topics.

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Chief examiner(s)

Ms Samone McCurdy

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

Social work

Prerequisites

Completion of 48 Points at tertiary 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/