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Please note that this Unit Profile is still in progress. The content below is subject to change.Overview
Social Work Field Education 1 is the first of two fieldwork placements that you are required to complete. You will complete onsite, agency-based interactions and learning tasks in a practice context supervised by an approved agency worker. You will participate in the range of activities, tasks, and processes that the agency encompasses by negotiation with the supervisor and subject to agency rules and procedures. During the first placement you are invited to consolidate and apply your learning from the first two years of study within an agency placement context. You will observe other workers, participate in the operations of the agency and should be able to critically analyse and articulate your developing professional practice framework within the context of the field placement. 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 Australian Association of Social Workers (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, SOWK13010, and participate in designated call-back sessions.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisites: Students must have completed all first and second year units before attempting SOWK13009. Corequisite: SOWK13010 Integrating Theory and Practice I.
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 - 2025
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).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
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.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
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 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 SUTE
Very supportive, flexible & knowledgeable, easy to approach. One of my best teacher in my this social work practice study .
This is great to hear and we will continue to be available and offer a positive experience.
Feedback from SUTE
The tasks and deadlines I found, weren't very clear and I had to work hard to put it into a weekly schedule that I could keep track of for myself. If I hadn't done that, I would certainly have missed things.
Subsequently we have supplied a task list for all students to track all requirements.
Feedback from SUTE
Possibly include in a previous residential 6 to 12 months prior a day to discuss SONIA. I had started just prior to last placement and I could sense much anxiety and confusion. Discussion about roles of field educators etc. But I felt supported during the placement. By both my supervisor, field educator and CQU staff. I had to take a day off and an extension due to personal reasons. But always felt supported!
This has begun with an introduction to the concept of SONIA in the year one residential and a more comprehensive overview in the year two residential.
Feedback from SUTE
More contact with lecturers throughout the term. More information/ examples and expectations for professional practice framework during term instead of all at Resi it was too overwhelming to do it at Resi.
We are increasing contact and education around this task with a tutorial added for this cohort next year.
- Develop and demonstrate the integration of professional social work knowledge, skills, and values within the placement context, in alignment with the AASW Code of Ethics and AASW Practice Standards, and organisational context for practice, including adherence to legislative and policy frameworks.
- Reflect on your professional practice, incorporating self-care strategies, use of self in the organisational context along with problem-solving skills, and cross-cultural competency.
- Create opportunities to develop your skills in the assessment of clients' needs, evaluating appropriate intervention strategies using social work theoretical frameworks.
- Construct a professional practice framework relevant to your emerging social work practice and demonstrate its application in various contexts.
All of the learning outcomes are linked to the AASW Practice Standards.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Professional Practice Plans (learning plans) - 0% | ||||
| 2 - Learning logs / diaries / Journal / log books - 0% | ||||
| 3 - Presentation - 0% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 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 | ||||