In this final fieldwork placement, you will immerse yourself in a professional practice environment, gaining a strong sense of competence and confidence in preparation for entering the social work profession. Field education aims to provide you with a robust and fulfilling learning experience, ensuring a collaborative endeavour between the university, you as a student, host organisations, and supervisors. The focus of activities will be on learning outcomes directly linked to the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) Practice Standards. Field education is a distinctive pedagogy for social work education, enabling you to integrate classroom learning with professional practice, refine your ways of thinking, doing, and being, and develop your professional identity, integrity, and practice frameworks. Throughout the placement, you will be socialised into the profession by engaging in real practice contexts, creating a constructive and reciprocal learning space. A Field Education Manual will guide you through the placement process, providing a detailed framework and administrative arrangements, including attendance and assessment requirements, as well as roles and responsibilities of all parties. The manual outlines the inherent requirements and performance expectations based on the AASW Practice Standards and ASWEAS General and Profession-Specific Graduate Attributes. You are required to attend the compulsory residential school associated with the co-requisite unit, SOWK14010, and participate in designated call-back sessions.
Level | Undergraduate |
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Unit Level | 4 |
Credit Points | 18 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.375 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Prerequisites: Students must have completed SOWK13009, SOWK14005, and SOWK14006 before enrolling in this unit. Corequisite: SOWK14010 Integrating Theory and Practice II - This unit is designed to be taken concurrently with SOWK14009. A compulsory residential school is associated with SOWK14010, and students enrolled in SOWK14009 are required to attend this residential school. 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). |
Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
Residential School | No Residential School |
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).
Each 18-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 37.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 450 hours for the unit.
Assessment Task | Weighting |
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1. Professional Practice Plans (learning plans) | 0% |
2. Learning logs / diaries / Journal / log books | 0% |
3. Presentation | 0% |
This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
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 4.6 (on a 5 point Likert scale), based on a 43.18% response rate.
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:
Section |
Summary of Profession-specific Graduate Attributes (AASW) |
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1. Values and Ethics |
Practice in accordance with the AASW Code of Ethics, manage ethical dilemmas, and promote human rights and social justice. |
2. Professionalism |
Represent the social work profession with integrity and professionalism, behave professionally, and be accountable for actions and decisions. |
3. Culturally Responsive and Inclusive Practice |
Work inclusively and respectfully with cultural differences, promote the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their cultures. |
4. Knowledge for Practice |
Understand systemic influences, social work theories and concepts, the role of research and evaluation, and articulate how knowledge informs practice. |
5. Applying Knowledge to Practice |
Assess and analyse needs, work collaboratively, use a range of social work methods and techniques, and apply critical and reflective thinking to practice. |
6. Communication and Interpersonal Skills |
Communicate effectively with diverse individuals, clarify the nature of services offered, work in a team environment, and use information technology to communicate and provide services. |
7. Information Recording and Sharing |
Record and manage information appropriately, maintain information in accordance with ethical principles and relevant legislation. |
8. Professional Development and Supervision |
Participate actively in professional supervision, engage in continuing professional development, and contribute to the professional development of others. |
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
1 - Professional Practice Plans (learning plans) | • | • | • | |
2 - Learning logs / diaries / Journal / log books | • | • | • | |
3 - Presentation | • |
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
1 - Communication | • | • | ||
2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | |
3 - Critical Thinking | • | |||
5 - Team Work | • | • | • | |
7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | • | |
8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | • |
10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | • |
Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |