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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

312021 (v.1) Research Methods for Social Workers 241

Note

Tutition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.

Area: Department of Social Work
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):     312014 (v.1) Social Work Interviewing and Communication Skills 131 or any previous version
    OR
    1863 (v.5) SW 124 - Communication Skills or any previous version
AND
    312015 (v.1) Social Work Practice and Principles 112 or any previous version
    OR
    300888 (v.3) SW 111- Introduction to Social Work or any previous version
AND
    312016 (v.1) Social Work Citizenship, Culture and Diversity 122 or any previous version
    OR
    1638 (v.7) Behavioural Science 171 or any previous version
AND
    312017 (v.1) Social Work Counselling Individuals 132 or any previous version
    OR
    1636 (v.6) SW 122 - Practice Models 1 or any previous version
Syllabus: Philosophy of social research. Fallibility of social survey data; official statistics; reading and interpreting tables of data; designing and reviewing questionnaires; basic analysis of quantitative data using SPSS.
Field of Education: 061399 Public Health not elsewhere classified
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Categorised
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External