309024 (v.1) SW 480 - Child Protection

Area:

Department of Social Work and Social Policy

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

24.0

** 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. **

Lecture:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Workshop:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

    306128 (v.1) SW 265 - Field Practice 1 or any previous version
    OR
    2801 (v.7) SW 262 - Fieldwork Practice 1 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 discoursesof 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.

** 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:

061300 Public Health (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not Online
*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
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	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