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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.

10771 (v.4) SW 465 - Honours Field Practicum

Area: Department of Social Work
Credits: 100.0
Contact Hours: 37.5
Tuition Patterns: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Other: 1 x 5 Hours Semester
Workshop: 5 x 3 Hours Semester
Seminar: 1 x 7.5 Hours Semester
Fieldwork: 1 x 70 Days Quarterly
Prerequisite(s): 2802 (v.6) Behavioural Science 271 or any previous version
AND
    2803 (v.6) Law (Social Issues) 210 or any previous version
    OR
    3677 (v.10) SW 322 - Community Social Work or any previous version
    OR
    312012 (v.2) Social Work Integrity and Accountability in Practice 241 or any previous version
AND
    3681 (v.7) Social Policy 303 or any previous version
    OR
    312019 (v.2) Contemporary and Comparative Social Policy 242 or any previous version
AND
4055 (v.10) Working in Human Service Organisations 342 or any previous version
AND
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: Seventy days placement, practising social work in a range of sites and fields under the supervision of an approved field educator; integration of theoretical frameworks and knowledge; successful demonstration and articulation of social work skills; self assessment; use of supervision; evaluation of personal values and professional values, ethics and frameworks; application of self care strategies; critical and reflexive examination and evaluation of practice; self directed practice.
Unit references, texts, outcomes and assessment details The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Field of Education: 090501 Social Work
Result Type: Pass/Fail

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 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