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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

Area: Department of Social Work
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 24.0
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.
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.
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: 061300 Public Health (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

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