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Social Work Practice - Fourth Year Practicum - SOCW4010
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of Social Sciences and International Studies
 
 
Course Outline: http://legacy.handbook.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 24
 
 
EFTSL: 0.50000 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 35
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 120 uoc and SOCW4002, SOCW4003, SOCW4004, SOCW4006
 
 
Excluded: SOCW4001
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Building on their first practicum experience, students are placed in a different social welfare agency to develop additional competencies and further enhance those already mastered at a basic level. By the end of this practicum students need to demonstrate satisfactory performance on the full range of required practice competencies in addition to formal academic assessment. Students are again consulted in decisions about practicum allocations. The practicum is undertaken as a full-time block period, beginning in late-July and extending throughout Session 2.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the fourth year practicum students should be able to demonstrate an ability to:
  • Take responsibility and initiative in their learning
  • Appraise their own practice, its limitations and strengths
  • Develop a clear understanding of the scope of social work and its relationship to other occupations
  • Develop an awareness of general policy issues relevant to context of the agency and their own practice
  • Demonstrate an understanding of how the organisation works and its role in the overall pattern of welfare provision
  • Develop skills and systematic use of knowledge in areas of assessment/goal setting/intervention
  • Display confidence/competence in a variety of practicum tasks and reflect the same through practice behaviour
  • Achieve autonomy in practice; establish cooperative and open learning/working relationships within and external to the organisation
  • Selectively use theory/knowledge in analysing situations and deciding action strategies.

Assessment

This course will be assessed as either satisfactory/unsatisfactory. For a satisfactory grade to be awarded various criteria must be met. For more details of assessment tasks, please refer to the course outline which is available from the School office.

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