Area: |
Department of Social Work and Social Policy |
Credits: |
25.0 |
Contact Hours: |
3.0 |
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| ** 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. ** |
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Lecture: |
1 x 18 Hours Once-only |
Tutorial: |
1 x 18 Hours Once-only |
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Syllabus: |
Counselling can be understood as a process where clients are encouraged to tell and re-tell stories they believe to be true about themselves, other people and the world. Narrative practices recognise that people create meanings about their experiences inlife 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 composing of 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 center on how stories are produced through negotiating competing socio-cultural discourses. A weekend intensive educational trip is also a requirement for this unit. |
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| ** 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. ** |
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Field of Education: |
90501 Social Work |
HECS Band (if applicable): |
1 |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis
utilises online information: |
Not Online |
Result Type: |
Grade/Mark |
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Availability |
| Year |
Location |
Period |
Internal |
Area External |
Central External |
| 2004 |
Bentley Campus |
Quarter 3 |
Y |
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| 2004 |
Bentley Campus |
Semester 2 |
Y |
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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 |
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