SOWK492-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Field Education 2

45 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

Field experience of 60 days in social service agencies under the guidance of accredited field educators. Teaching and learning methods seek to facilitate an effective framework for initial practice, guided by the Social Workers Registration Board 10 core competencies. Students enrolled in SOWK 671 must provide attestations as to character and suitability for continuing practice and agree to practice and be bound by the Code of Ethics of the New Zealand Association of Social Workers and the New Zealand Social Workers Registration Board's registration: Fit and Proper Person Policy. Students enrolled in this course whose circumstances change in regard to character or suitability must inform the course co-ordinator immediately. Changes in circumstances, whether notified by the student or others, may result in the student being required to undergo a re-assessment arranged by the Head of Department. Registered social work field educators and individual students on placement are supported by a designated teaching liaison person.

Learning Outcomes

Through their experiences with this course, students will be able to:

Identify and understand the purpose, knowledge, and skills of the social work process in
working for change, and acknowledging the issues of power, authority, professionalism and
teamwork.

Develop an effective framework for initial practice, in accordance with the New Zealand
Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics and the Social Workers Registration Board Code
of Conduct and 10 core competencies.

At the conclusion of placements, the student is expected to demonstrate, to a beginning social
work practitioner level of competency, the following:

1. Understanding of the social, political, and economic context in which social work is
practiced in the placement agency.
2. Understanding of the service the placement agency provides, the role of social workers, and the tasks they perform.
3. Ability to apply the social work process in forming a working relationship with individuals
and/or families and/or whanau and/or groups and/or communities and/or iwi.
4. Ability to practice social work in the placement agency according to its systems and
protocols, and the social work roles carried out.
5. Awareness of one’s own attitudes and values, social analysis, limitations, and strengths in
relation to the specific tasks undertaken on placement and an understanding of the
professional orientation of social work, including the code of ethics.
6. Ability to make effective use of the teaching and learning opportunities provided on
Placement.
7. Ability to assimilate all the above into one’s development as a social worker.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Employable, innovative and enterprising

Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

Biculturally competent and confident

Students will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its relevance to their area of study and/or their degree.

Engaged with the community

Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.

Globally aware

Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

SOWK572, SOWK672

Co-requisites

Equivalent Courses

Course Coordinator

Fiona Clark

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Poster Presentation 35% Due at last field liaison hui
Self Reflection Essay 27 Oct 2024 35%
Field Observation 10% Due during placement
Placement Workbook 20% Due within 3 days of final placement day

Textbooks / Resources

There is no set textbook for this course. It is likely that your field educator will have practice specific reading that they will want you to use on placement. The following reading list however, provides references to material that you could refer to when preparing for your placement supervision and completing your case analysis essay for this course. These materials are available through the library.

Connolly, M., Harms, L., & Maidment, J. (2017). Social work: Contexts and practice (Fourth Edition.). Oxford University Press.

Chenoweth, L., & McAuliffe, D. (2021). The road to social work and human service practice (6th edition.). Cengage Learning Australia.

Durie, M. (1998). Whaiora: Maori Health Development (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.

Maidment, J., Egan, R., Tudor, R. & Nipperess, S. (Eds) (2022) Practice Skills for Social Work and Welfare. 4th Edition. Routledge.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $3,529.00

International fee $16,425.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Limited Entry Course

Maximum enrolment is 40

For further information see School of Health Sciences .

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