The course is a two-plus-two course, ie two years of prerequisite studies at degree level, or a completed degree with specified subjects, followed by two years of study focusing on core social work subjects.
Prerequisites for admission to the course are the completion of a relevant first degree, or the first two years of a relevant degree.
`Relevant' in this instance has two uses and both are applicable: it means (i) that the subjects in the first Australian degree, or in the first two years of the degree must be deemed equivalent to similar subjects at Monash University, or (ii) relevant also means that the applicant will have studied in a past Monash or other Australian degree, or in the first two years of a degree deemed equivalent as per (i) above, subjects that are prescribed by the AASW. The subjects prescribed by the AASW are:
(a) subjects related to the individual in society (according to the AASW this should include the study of families and groups and should be based on the study of general and social psychology; there must be at least two semester units of study from disciplines such as personality development, abnormal psychology, human development, physical and mental health and illness, and theories of social and group behaviour);
(b) the study of society (according to the AASW this will include subjects such as anthropology, economics, history, political science and sociology; at least two semester units of study in basic or general sociology or anthropology are essential).
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