Overview

The Bachelor of Social Work (Honours) requires 4 years of full-time study (or the equivalent part-time). The course is offered by the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work.Field work topics must be taken full-time.

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Program of study overview
Program of study notes

Program of study
144 Units

Year 136 Units
Year 236 Units
Year 336 Units
Year 436 Units

Admission requirements

Admission requirements
Inherent requirements
English Language requirements

Aims

Graduates will be ready for social work practice and will have the required knowledge, skills and values.

Graduates will enact the values in the Australian Association of Social Workers’ Code of Ethics (2020), including respect, social justice and professional integrity, and work in a culturally responsive manner.

Graduates will apply social work theories, methods and skills to enhance the wellbeing of individuals, groups and communities and to address inequality and injustice.

Incorporating knowledge from a range of disciplines, including psychology, sociology and social policy, graduates will focus on the interaction between people and their environments.

Graduates will build effective relationships with the people they work with.

Graduates will work in a range of contexts, including government, not for profit and private organisations.

Graduates will have capacity to use, evaluate, construct and undertake research and write a research report.

This course aims to provide academic preparation for eligible graduates to pursue research higher degree studies. 

Learning outcomes

On completion of the course you will be able to:
1.
Critically analyse the dynamics of power, privilege and oppression, relating issues to the broader social context
2.
Examine understandings of psychological health and wellbeing, including human development and behaviour, to work effectively with people across the lifecycle
3.
Apply a range of social work theories, methods and skills to assess needs and develop interventions or solutions in working with individuals, groups and communities, including interviewing, group work, community development, advocacy, social action, policy practice, research and evaluation, and critically reflect on their own practice
4.
Use professional and ethical judgment and decision making, and decolonising, culturally responsive and inclusive practices
5.
Apply advanced oral and written communication skills and knowledge of the political, legal and organisational contexts in which social work is practiced to work collaboratively and effectively, both with service users and in multidisciplinary teams, using information and communication technologies as appropriate
6.
Plan and execute research principles, theory, knowledge and skills to design and conduct an independent ethically approved research project into a social issue or issue related to social work practice

Student progression rules

Students achieving a GPA of at least 5.5 at the end of the third year will be eligible to continue into the fourth year of the course. Students who do not meet the GPA requirement will be able to transfer to the Bachelor of Social Work on completion of 108 units according to the first three years of study in the degree.

Failure to complete the course within 10 consecutive years or the award of a grade of Fail (F) in the same topic on more than one occasion, may constitute prima facie evidence of unsatisfactory progress for the purposes of the University's Policy on Student Progress.

Professional accreditation and recognition

Professional accreditation

Associations

Course/Exit award association
Honours - Embedded/Bachelor association