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Courses Handbook 2014

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2014.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2013.

312033 (v.2) Social Work Honours Field Education 442

Area: Department of Social Work
Credits: 75.0
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.
Workshop: 5 x 3 Hours Semester
Seminar: 2 x 7.5 Hours Once-only
Fieldwork: 1 x 70 Days Once-only
Prerequisite(s):     309631 (v.3) Pathophysiology 241 or any previous version
    OR
    311236 (v.1) OT241 - Contextual Determinants of Illness, Disability and Health or any previous version
AND
311259 (v.2) Allied Health Honours Dissertation 442 or any previous version
AND
312026 (v.2) Violence, Abuse and Trauma 441 or any previous version
AND
    312027 (v.2) Community Social Work 441 or any previous version
    OR
    3677 (v.10) SW 322 - Community Social Work or any previous version
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.
Syllabus: Students will undertake seventy days (70) social work placement in a range of fields and sites of practice under the supervision of an approved supervisor. Integration and application of theoretical frameworks, social work skills and critically reflective practice are essential elements of the placement. Through the use of supervision students will develop competence in integrating personal values, professional values, ethics and frameworks into practice. Students will apply self-care strategies and undertake critical examination and evaluation of social work in practice. Students will be able to articulate social work skills in dynamic and diverse settings This professional placement develops students’ skills to operate as beginning social workers in self-directed practice.
Field of Education: 090501 Social Work
Result Type: Pass/Fail


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2014 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


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