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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

309024 (v.1) SW 480 - Child Protection

Note

Tuition Patterns

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Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: Department of Social Work
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 24.0
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Workshop: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 309049 (v.1) SW 580 - Child Protection or any previous version
Prerequisite(s): 3681 (v.7) Social Policy 303 or any previous version
AND
4055 (v.10) Working in Human Service Organisations 342 or any previous version
AND
    10770 (v.4) SW 324 - Advanced Practice or any previous version
    OR
    6948 (v.4) SW 399 - Honours Research or any previous version
AND
13196 (v.5) Working in Indigenous Australian Contexts 300 or any previous version
Syllabus: Explores the history, dilemmas and practices of statutory, child protection social work focusing particularly on skills and knowledge that will assist students seeking to work in this area. The unit focus will be to critically review existing discourses of child protection social work. Course material and experiences will seek to foster the student's capacity for critical reflexivity and build a sense of humility about what professionals think they know and can achieve in the adversarious domain of child protection.
Field of Education: 061300 Public Health (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2 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