This is the final fieldwork placement of the BSW course and it is expected to be the final unit the students completes within the BSW course. The student will complete 80 days x 7 hours (560 hours) of onsite, agency based interactions and learning activities supervised by an approved social worker. Students will participate in the range of activities, tasks and processes that the agency encompasses under supervision. Students should be able to integrate professional social work knowledge and skills acquired during their coursework and be able to participate meaningfully in the operations of the agency where they are placed. Student should be able to formulate their own model of practice as a beginning professional social worker. On completion of the placement students will be expected to meet the AASW practice standards for a beginning professional social worker. Attendance at the relevant residential school as well as participation in designated call back sessions during placement is a requirement. Students will be also required to undergo a pre placement interview to assess their suitability for fieldwork placement and preference for placements will be given to students who have successfully completed all other required coursework in the BSW. Students readiness for fieldwork will be assessed on the basis of their participation in a range of tasks and assessments completed during their previous years of coursework and fieldwork.
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: (SOWK13009 and SOWK14005 and SOWK14006) or (SOWK13002 and SOWK19016 and SOWK19017) or Requires Departmental consent by the School, Corequisite: SOWK14010 Integrating Theory & Practice 2 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. Written Assessment | 0% |
2. Written Assessment | 0% |
3. Group Discussion | 0% |
4. Off-campus Activity | 0% |
5. Written Assessment | 0% |
6. Written Assessment | 0% |
7. Written Assessment | 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.
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Term 2 - 2022 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 22.22% 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:
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | ||
2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | ||
3 - Group Discussion | • | • | • | • | • | ||
4 - Off-campus Activity | • | • | • | • | • | ||
5 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | ||
6 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • |
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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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 | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | |||||
3 - Group Discussion | • | • | • | • | • | |||||
4 - Off-campus Activity | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||||
5 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
6 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | ||
7 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • | • |