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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.

312018 (v.2) Social Work Lifespan, Resilience and Risk 241

Area: Department of Social Work
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
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 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):     312015 (v.2) The Individual in Society 142
    OR
    13019 (v.2) Psychology 123 or any previous version
    OR
    313392 (v.2) Introduction to Psychology 100 or any previous version
    OR
    307743 (v.1) Introduction to Psychology 100 or any previous version
    OR
    1635 (v.9) SW 121 - Introduction to Welfare or any previous version
    OR
    7367 (v.4) Anthropology 111 - The Anthropological Imagination or any previous version
    OR
    312015 (v.1) Social Work Practice and Principles 112
AND
    312649 (v.3) Indigenous Cultures and Health 130 or any previous version
    OR
    13196 (v.5) Working in Indigenous Australian Contexts 300 or any previous version
AND
    313398 (v.2) Imagining Health in Social and Cultural Contexts 100 or any previous version
    OR
    312601 (v.2) Self, Culture and Society 111 or any previous version
    OR
    1863 (v.5) SW 124 - Communication Skills or any previous version
    OR
    300718 (v.4) Sociocultural Perspectives on Health 131 or any previous version
Syllabus: Introduction to psychological, biological, neurological, sociological, psychodynamic, and cultural approaches to lifespan development. Exploration of how resilience, risks and opportunities shape social work practice. A critique of dominant understandings and approaches in life span development.
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: 090799 Behavioural Science not elsewhere classified
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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