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.

Assessment Tasks

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

Past Exams

All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.

This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .

Term 2 - 2021 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 4.5 (on a 5 point Likert scale), based on a 29.69% response rate.

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.

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

1. Describe contemporary human services in Australia, their historical origins and how they are currently organised and delivered
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the concepts of social justice and inequality in Australia and their relevance to professional social work and human services
3. Explain the characteristics and goals of social work and welfare work as helping professions within the context of social justice and inequality
4. Articulate the key values, ethics, principles and models of practice that characterise social and welfare work
5. Demonstrate an understanding of reflective practice
6. Demonstrate knowledge of referencing formats for the AGPS Harvard system.

• Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
• Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes