306343 (v.2) SW 695 - Advanced Community 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. **

Seminar:

1 x 3 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

7818 (v.5) Professional Ethics 501 or any previous version
AND
11462 (v.2) SW 534 - Advanced Practice - Reflexivity in Practice or any previous version
AND
307044 (v.2) SW 603 - Community Development Theory and Practice II
AND
307046 (v.2) SW 601- Community Development Theory and Practice I

Syllabus:

Building on the conceptual and theoretical knowledge about community acquired in pre-requisite units, this unit focuses on advanced professional practice skills necessary for direct community practice, emphasising strategies for inclusive practice. Theoretical aspects debate participation, empowerment and the challenges of inclusive community practice. The unit guides students in exploring, planning and implementing effective interaction with and within communities. Skills-based components explore strategies for facilitating community engagement, consultation or information gathering, and identifying community priorities as well as negotiating tensions and complex relationships. Tensions associated with community input and information gathering are critically assessed and ethical dimensions of community consultation and engagement are key aspect of this unit. Students engage in seminar based experiential learning activities exploring community focused narrative and strengths based approaches. Students plan, facilitate and reflectively evaluate their own practice through seminar presentations and related assignments, experiential strategies may involve projects undertaken in collaboration with community groups or organisations.

** 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 Categorised
*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
2007	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