SOWK525-07W (C) Whole Year 2007

Advanced Social Work Principles and Practice

24 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 26 February 2007
End Date: Thursday, 15 November 2007
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 11 March 2007
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 9 September 2007

Description

This course is presented in modules that include social work practice with communities and groups, individuals and families. It builds on the generic social work framework developed in SOWK 514. Preparation for the field experience in the final year consists of fieldwork skills laboratories in the second semester which identify and develop inter-personal helping skills using readings, role-plays and video equipment. This paper is assessed and students must attain a skills competency certificate in order to progress to the following papers in the final year, SOWK525, SOWK571, SOWK572. Attendance at all sessions is compulsory.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of School.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Andrew Frost

Lecturers

Kate van Heugten , Yvonne Crichton-Hill and Nikki Evans

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
FINAL EXAM 40%
ESSAY1 30 Apr 2007 30%
ESSAY2 08 Jul 2007 30%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Nash, Mary , Munford, Robyn., O'Donoghue, Kieran; Social work theories in action ; Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005.

Recommended Reading

Corsini, Raymond J. , Wedding, Danny; Current psychotherapies ; 7th ed; Thomson/Brooks/Cole, 2005.

Payne, Malcolm; Modern social work theory ; 2nd ed; Lyceum Books, 1997.

Course links

Library portal

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $787.00

* 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 Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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