1635 (v.9) SW 121 - Introduction to Welfare


Area:

Department of Social Work and Social Policy

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0
 
** 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. **
 

Lecture:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly
 

Syllabus:

An exploration of the historical shaping and reshaping of the Australian welfare state. This includes- institutional and residual approaches to welfare, debates around the development of universal and selective services, equality of opportunity and of outcome, positive discrimination the competing discourses shaping social policy and welfare debates (conservative, liberal, social democratic, Marxist and social construction views of welfare), aspects of the current Australian 'welfare reform agenda'. Perspectives draw on a critical examination of human service provision as well as approaches to social problems and techniques for studying social phenomena via case studies on poverty and unemployment, ethnicity, race and gender in Australia.
 
** 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. **
 

Field of Education:

90501 Social Work

HECS Band (if applicable):

1

Extent to which this unit or thesis
utilises online information:

Not Online

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Area External Central External
2004 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y   Y
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area