SOWK28005 - Social Work Field Education 1

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Agency-based field education offers you a focused learning experience through which you can integrate theory and practice and develop a sense of professional proficiency by applying your learning in a safely moderated setting. You will develop direct practice skills and gain insight into the requirements of working collaboratively with colleagues. You will increase your knowledge of the interface between policy and practice in your agency setting and consider the contextual constraints placed on their role, organisationally and legally. This is the first of two compulsory Field Education placements. Students are required to attend the placement for a total of 440 hours.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 8
Credit Points 18
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.375
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
The pre-requisites are:

SOWK28001 Interviewing, Negotiation and Mediation Skills

SOWK28004 Cross-Cultural Issues in Social Work

SOWK28002 History, Culture, Resilience and Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

SOWK28003 Psychosocial Health and Wellbeing Across the Life Cycle

Co-requisite:

SOWK29001 Ethical and Legal Issues in Practice

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).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

Term 3 - 2025 Profile
Sydney

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).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 18-credit Postgraduate 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 Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 0%
2. Group Discussion 0%
3. Written Assessment 0%
4. Practical 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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Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Investigate and develop a set of placement preferences and design a learning contract, including an outline of post-placement learning needs
  2. Demonstrate professionalism and problem-solving skills appropriate to the social work placement agency
  3. Apply cross cultural competency skills, including working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  4. Examine and assess clients' needs by integrating social work theories and methods for professional practice
  5. Synthesise the AASW Code of Ethics, Domains of Practice, with agency policies and procedures, in order to develop an emerging professional practice.

Field Education is a key component of a social work course. All students studying social work are required to complete a 1000 hours of placement time in an agency over two placements as required by the Australian Social Work Education and Accreditation Standards (ASWEAS) (2019). This unit is the first placement for students within a human service or social work organisation.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Professional Level
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