Level: AQF 8 core
Credit Points: 6

Unit Description:
This unit introduces students to the institutional and demographic context in which community development is taking place in Australia. The unit give you an opportunity to become familiar with social institutions, key social demographics and core cultural values that constitute Australian society. These particularly inform how the human services sector and social workers roles within it are organised and framed.

Learning Outcomes:

Learning and Teaching Process:
This unit is taught over 13 weeks and totals 3 student contact hours per week.

Students will participate in teaching and learning activities including:

a)   Lectures and critical discussion

b)   Tutorials and skill development activities

c)   Online pre-learning activities

d)   Online post-learning

Depending on the delivery mode, this unit’s content is delivered to students via

• A weekly 3-hour learning session [via Zoom]. One hour will be didactive material delivered in lecture format. Two hours will be interactive class time, for discussion of the lecture, readings, assessments and class activities.

In addition to timetabled contact hours, students are expected to do at least 9.5 hours of personal study each week to review lectures and read prescribed and recommended materials for this unit. The total workload of this unit will be around 150 hours (including individual self-study and reading).

Level: AQF 8 core
Credit Points: 6

Unit Description:
This unit provides students with an orientation to professional communication necessary for work in the human services. They will develop key academic and professional skills required in practice such as clear and effective verbal and written communication, and research literacy. In class learning activities and assessments allow students to demonstrate their ability to hear and synthesise information in real time-  a necessary skill in human services work.

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

a. Apply effective, relevant, and culturally appropriate professional communication skills appropriate to work in the human services professions.

b. Critically analyse, interpret, process and communicate information effectively

c. Analyse and critically reflect upon the contexts and variables that impact effective academic and professional communication

Learning and Teaching Process:

This unit is taught over 13 weeks and totals 3 student contact hours per week.

Students will participate in teaching and learning activities including:

• Lectures and critical discussion
• Tutorials and skill development activities
• Online pre-learning activities
• Online post-learning

Depending on the delivery mode, this unit’s content is to be delivered to students via

• a weekly 3 hour lecture [via Zoom]. These three hours will be interactive class time, and will include didactive materials, discussion, readings, assessment and class activities.

In addition to timetabled contact hours, students are expected to undertake at least 9.5 hours of personal study each week to review seminar materials and read prescribed and recommended materials for this unit. The total individual workload of this unit will be around 150 hours (including teamwork, individual self-study and reading).

Level: AQF 8 core
Credit Points: 6

Unit Description:
The unit provides an introduction to the social and human sciences, their historical foundations and their role in understanding and working in contemporary society. Concepts studied are particularly focussed on understanding social inequalities and how these may relate to contemporary social movements. These theories include structural theories about gender, class, diversity, politico-economic systems, social institutions, culture, colonisation, globalisation, neoliberalism and (post)modernity. Students will also explore postmodern concepts of human agency, lived experience, identity, knowledge, self and subjectivity. This analysis aims to provide students with an appreciation of the role of the social sciences in understanding contemporary society, but even more importantly it establishes a foundational framework through which the analysis of contemporary social issues and contemporary social action takes place.

Learning Outcomes:

Learning and Teaching Process

This unit is taught over 13weeks and totals 3student contact hours per week.

Students will participate in teaching and learning activities including:

a. Lectures and critical discussion

b. Tutorials and skill development activities

c. Online pre-learning activities

d. Online post-learning

Depending on the delivery mode, this unit’s content is delivered to students via

• A weekly 3 hour learning session [via Zoom]. These three hours will be interactive class time, and will include didactive materials, discussion, readings, assessments and class activities.

In addition to timetabled contact hours, students are expected to do at least 9.5 hours of personal study each week to review lectures and read prescribed and recommended materials for this unit. The total workload of this unit will be around 150 hours (including teamwork, individual self-study and reading).

Level: AQF 8 core
Credit Points: 6

Unit Description:

Developing knowledge and practice skills to engage ethically with First Nations People is a central requirement for all human services workers. This unit introduces students to the historical and contemporary policies and practices that impact the lives of First Nations People and frame their relationship with human services, promotes the development of practice skills for engagement, and introduces key practice, ethical and human rights frameworks.

This unit draws on content developed by First Nations social work academics and other relevant material and aims to begin to prepare students for practice with First Nations People. Contemporary issues such as constitutional reform, treaty and truth telling will also be examined for their significance to all Australians and especially for social workers engaging with First Nations People.

Learning Outcomes:

Learning and Teaching Process:

This unit is taught over 13 weeks and totals 3 student contact hours per week.

Students will participate in teaching and learning activities including:

a) Lectures and critical discussion

b) Tutorials and skill development activities

c) Online pre-learning activities

d) Online post-learning

Depending on the delivery mode, this unit’s content is delivered to students via

• A weekly 3 hour learning session [via Zoom]. This is in a seminar format and includes didactive material and interactive class time with discussion, readings, assessments and class activities.

In addition to timetabled contact hours, students are expected to do at least 9.5 hours of personal study each week to review lectures and read prescribed and recommended materials for this unit. The total workload of this unit will be around 150 hours (including individual self-study and reading).