Overview
This unit will introduce you to social work and human services in Australia and a changing context for human services within the information society. You will develop an understanding of the history and cultural context of social work and welfare work within the Australian welfare state and how services are currently organised and delivered. You should be able to conceptualise social justice, inequality and marginalisation and their relevance to professional practice in social work and welfare work. You will understand the nature and goals of social work and human services as helping professions within this context, what characterises these professions and their fields and methods of practice. Particular emphasis will be placed on how access to information and the skills required to use information effectively can be an important dimension in addressing disadvantage, oppressive power and exclusion in the post industrial society. You are required to attend compulsory residential school or compulsory weekly on-campus tutorials in order to achieve specific learning outcomes of the unit.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2017
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Residential Schools
This unit has a Compulsory Residential School for distance mode students and the details are:
Click here to see your Residential School Timetable.
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Have your say
More detail on assessment tasks.
More information/resources to be provided to students on the nature of project-based learning i.e. to be unclear about what is required is the nature of the task requiring ongoing dialogue with the lecturer.
More detailed information was provided about the assessment items.
- Describe contemporary human services in Australia, their historical origins and how they are currently organised and delivered
- Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of social justice and inequality in Australia and their relevance to professional social work and human services
- Explain the characteristics and goals of social work and welfare work as helping professions within the context of social justice and inequality
- Articulate the key values, ethics, principles and models of practice that characterise social and welfare work
- Demonstrate an understanding of reflective practice.
- Demonstrate knowledge of referencing formats for the AGPS Harvard system.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 10% | ||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 40% | ||||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||
| 4 - On-campus Activity - 0% | ||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 10% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 40% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||||
| 4 - On-campus Activity - 0% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
The Road to Social Work and Human Service Practice
Edition: 4th (2015)
Authors: Chenoweth, L. & McAuliffe, D
Cengage Learning
Melbourne Melbourne , Victoria , Australia
Binding: Paperback
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Adobe Flash Player
- Windows Media Player or
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
d.taylor@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Expectations for this unit
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Confirm your attendance at the residential in Noosa or Geraldton OR at weekly tutorials in Rockhampton or Bundaberg.
Module/Topic
An introduction to social work
Chapter
Click on 'An introduction to social work'
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Social Workers - Leaders of human service delivery through time
Chapter
Click on 'Leaders of human service delivery'
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Reflective and reflexive practice
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
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The social organisation of Australian society
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
The analysis of inequality in Australia
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
The personal impacts of inequality
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
The knowledges needed for contemporary human service deliveryand management
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
The non-negotiable values for contemporary human service delivery and management
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
The evaluation of contemporary human service delivery and management
Chapter
Click on 'Service evaluation'
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Self Care
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Complete course evaluations before you leave for your break (big red button top left hand corner of Moodle)
Assessment 3: Helping immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers settle in Australia (Eco-map and information package/individual, duo, or trio submission) Due: Week 12 Friday (2 June 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Log of Hours Due: Week 12 Friday (2 June 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
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Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
All students are required to attend compulsory on-campus sessions. This will either be at a residential in Noosa or Geraldton OR weekly tutorials in Rockhampton or Bundaberg.
1 Online Quiz(zes)
The University's Harvard (author-date) Referencing Guide is the core document for successful completion of this assessment task.
In this quiz you will be presented with 10 diverse sources of information and knowledge likely to be used for other assessment tasks in this course and every other social work course in the four years of the program.
Your task will be to read about the hypothetical sources of information or knowledge presented in the quiz and translate that information into the correct acknowledgement of that source of information or knowledge for a Harvard (author-date) reference list. The format of the reference you submit in the quiz must match the Harvard (author-date) style exactly.
You will have one hour to complete ten questions. The quiz will close automatically one hour after you begin. Ten questions will be shuffled from a larger data bank so while each participant will receive different sources of information or knowledge all will be required to complete the same tasks. Moodle will match your responses with the correct Harvard (author-date) format. Each question will be worth 1% of marks toward your final grade.
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Week 5 Monday (3 Apr 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
The quiz is completed at Moodle and undertaken in whatever setting you choose. The quiz will be available at 9.00am on Monday the 27th of March (Week 4). It will be available for completion throughout the week and weekend. It will be no longer available from 23:45 on Monday the 3rd of April (Week 5). In fairness to the entire class no late submissions, distractions during the quiz, or technology failures will be considered. If you are concerned about the capacity of your technology you are advised to attend one of the University's campuses to complete this assessment task.
Week 5 Tuesday (4 Apr 2017)
Your results will be calculated immediately.
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Aherence to author-date referencing system
- Non-adherence to author-date referencing system
- Demonstrate knowledge of referencing formats for the AGPS Harvard system.
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
2 Written Assessment
Social workers work typically with a range of professional disciplines in the workplace. It is imperative that all workers can clearly articulate the key focus of their professional practice and the unique values, knowledge, and skills, they bring to organisations and communities. The clearer a worker understands the focus and goals of their own professional practice, the clearer they will be able to articulate this to others.
Week 8 Friday (5 May 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 10 Friday (19 May 2017)
Within two weeks of assessment submission
- List, describe and discuss the values that inform the profession of social work
- List, describe and discuss the core knowledge that informs social work practice
- List, describe and discuss the diverse roles social workers can occupy
- List,describe and discuss the generic skills needed for competent social work practice
- Reflective about your 'fit' with the profession
- On task submission according to the brief provided in the course profile and ongoing teaching input provided at Moodle and residential
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Standard of written communication, grammar, punctuation, spelling (Australian English only - Macquarie dictionary)
- Adherence to the Harvard author-date system of citation and referencing
- Breadth and quality of reference list
- Breadth and quality of independent research informing the essay
- Describe contemporary human services in Australia, their historical origins and how they are currently organised and delivered
- Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of social justice and inequality in Australia and their relevance to professional social work and human services
- Explain the characteristics and goals of social work and welfare work as helping professions within the context of social justice and inequality
- Articulate the key values, ethics, principles and models of practice that characterise social and welfare work
- Demonstrate an understanding of reflective practice.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
3 Written Assessment
Drawing on the structure of the eco-map tool provided at Moodle you are to focus on creating a package of information that will help immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers understand the welfare system in their new home.
Student Role:
As a social worker in education and training during field education you have been assigned a project to assist the settlement of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers who have arrived to your hometown with the goal of providing them an orientation to the Australian welfare system.
Product:
Informed by academic evidence about the specific needs of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, you are to decide on which contemporary services and resources they may need to survive and those less essential but which enhance well-being and quality of life.
You are strongly encouraged to locate yourself in your own neighbourhood, town or city and identify the people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds who have been settled there most recently in order to make your learning authentic and useful for the future. Alternatively, you can look to the nearest neighbouring place that have hosted an influx of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. If you decide to submit this assessment task with one to two others in the course you can focus on just one of your communities.
Please note: When planning your paper students are advised to carefully read the assessment criteria in conjunction with the assessment outline.
Word count: 1500 words.
If you do choose to submit this as a duo or trio, please include all names on the coversheet but only ONE student submits the assessment to moodle.
Week 12 Friday (2 June 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Exam Week Friday (16 June 2017)
Within two weeks of assessment submission
- Effective communication of the relevant welfare network drawing on the eco-map tool.
- Independent research of the needs of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers in the Australian context.
- Concise but informative descriptions of the services and resources identified and clear rationales for their connection to needs.
- Application of the knowledge acquired about needs and services demonstrating an holistic concern for people.
- On task according to the brief provided in the course profile.
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Quality of written communication, grammar, punctuation, spelling (Australian English only Macquarie dictionary)
- Adherence to the Harvard author-date system of referencing
- Breadth and quality of independent research informing the essay
- Describe contemporary human services in Australia, their historical origins and how they are currently organised and delivered
- Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of social justice and inequality in Australia and their relevance to professional social work and human services
- Explain the characteristics and goals of social work and welfare work as helping professions within the context of social justice and inequality
- Articulate the key values, ethics, principles and models of practice that characterise social and welfare work
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
4 On-campus Activity
On-campus learning is a compulsory component of this course. You are required to attend a three-day residential in Noosa or Geraldton OR weekly tutorials in Rockhampton or Bundaberg. You are required to complete a log of hours as evidence of this. Your on-campus tutor will provide you with this log of hours and you are required to sign in for each session. Your tutor will submit this log of hours on your behalf. In order to meet the requirements of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW), you can not miss any more than one 2 hour session.
You must pass this assessment to pass the unit. Failure to pass this assessment will result in the final grade of 'Fail' for the entire unit.
Week 12 Friday (2 June 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Your on-campus tutor will submit this on your behalf
Review/Exam Week Friday (9 June 2017)
Signed timesheets that indicate no more than one 2 hour session has been missed at the Noosa or Geraldton residential OR at the weekly tutorials in Rockhampton or Bundaberg.
- Demonstrate an understanding of reflective practice.
- Communication
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
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What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
