Restricted to MSW
This unit includes specific international contexts/case studies. This unit includes international cross-cultural issues/skills.
Introduction
This unit introduces students to a range of issues relating to the array of ideas, practical ways and traditions found in transformative, progressive and dialogical community work practice. The unit explores: the contested nature of the concept of community; critical perspectives on the nature and meaning of community practice; the wide range of values and ideological frameworks for community work practice; the roles and processes a social worker takes, participates in and facilitates during community work; current trends in local, national and international community work practice and the critiques and contradictions that exist in the thinking and the doing of community work practice as we understand it in the West.
Summary 2020
| Unit name | Community Work Practice |
|---|---|
| Unit code | HGW612 |
| Credit points | 12.5 |
| Faculty/School | College of Arts, Law and Education School of Social Sciences |
| Discipline | Social Work |
| Coordinator | Dr Joselynn Baltra-Ulloa |
| Teaching staff | |
| Level | Postgraduate |
| Available as student elective? | No |
| Breadth Unit? | No |
Availability
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Fees
Requisites
Prerequisites
HGW512; HGW513; HGW514; HGW515; HGW516; HGW517
Teaching
| Teaching Pattern | Online learning modules: 1 x 90 minute weekly face-to-face tutorial |
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| Assessment | 1 assignment of 2000 words (or equivalent) (50%); 1 assignment of 3000 words (or equivalent) (50%) |
| Timetable | View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable |
Textbooks
| Required | Refer to Co-Op Bookshop link(s) below for textbook information |
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| Recommended |
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