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306357 (v.1) Social Work 664 - Narrative in Practice


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 18 Hours Once-only
Tutorial: 1 x 18 Hours Once-only
 
Syllabus: Counselling can be understood as a process where clients are encouraged to tell and retell stories they believe to be true about themselves, other people and the world. Narrative practices recognise that people create meanings about their experiences in life through the creation of these stories. Such 'identity stories' influence the meaning given to present events, the interpretation of past experiences, and the prediction of future possibilities. Practice-based and will typically follow a cyclical format from lecture and discussions, to demonstrations of skills, student experiential practice and reflective commentaries. Students will be exposed to the ideas that inform a poststructuralist narrative perspective with particular attention to the composingof identities. Attention will be given to the creation of questions, especially landscape of action and landscape of identity questions. Students will be encouraged to listen with an interpretive ear to the way people tell their stories, and discussion will centre on how stories are produced through negotiating competing socio-cultural discourses. A weekend intensive educational trip is also a requirement for this unit.
 
** 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: 090501 Social Work
Funding Cluster: 05 - Behavioural Science, Social Studies
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*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
2005 Bentley Campus Quarter 3 Y        
2005 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2005 Bentley Campus Study Period 7 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

 
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