Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 174)
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196-101 Social Work and Social Change 1

Credit points: 12.5 1st year

Coordinator: Ms W. Weeks

Prerequisite: Selection into Bachelor of Social Work

Contact: One 90 minute lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week.

Timetable: First semester

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject should be able to:

• demonstrate an understanding of the context of Australian social work practice, with emphasis on social inequality as it is produced and re-produced through socio-economic class, race, ethnic and gender power relations;
• be familiar with social change processes as they are reflected in social policy and community services development in Australia;
• comprehend different theoretical approaches to understanding the provision of 'welfare' or social well-being and the development of social policy;
• understand the development of the social work profession, in particular within the Australian context.

Content:

A critical analysis of the development of social work within the context of the Australian state, its social policy responses and the development of community services. Social Work's professional role in relation to social inequality and social change movements concerning class, race, ethnicity and gender.

Assessment:

Written assignments of up to 4,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Batten R, Weeks W & Wilson J Issues Facing Australian Families: Human Services Respond, Longman Cheshire
• Beilharz P, Considine M & Watts R Arguing about the Welfare State: the Australian Experience, Allen & Unwin
• Bryson L Welfare and the State, Macmillan, London 1992

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 174)

Status:          Official 1996
Date created:    Oct  9 1995
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