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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.

4055 (v.10) Working in Human Service Organisations 342

Note

Tuition 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

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Area: Department of Social Work
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Individual Study: 1 x 7 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 311681 (v.1) Working in Human Service Organisations 601 or any previous version
Prerequisite(s):     2804 (v.8) Research Inquiry 304 or any previous version
    OR
    312020 (v.2) The Inquiring Social Work Practitioner 242 or any previous version
AND
    3676 (v.8) SW 321 - Critical Reflective Praxis or any previous version
    OR
    312018 (v.2) Social Work Lifespan, Resilience and Risk 241 or any previous version
AND
    3678 (v.8) Research Methods 303 or any previous version
    OR
    312021 (v.1) Research Methods for Social Workers 241 or any previous version
Syllabus: Sociology of welfare organisations. Human relations. Bureaucracy, power and control. Professionalism in welfare. Organisational change. Evolution of administrative principles. Decision theory. Tools of management. Motivation and communication. Affirmative action. Program evaluation. Staff stress and strain. Equal employment opportunity legislation and practice.
Field of Education: 090501 Social Work
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