Social Work and Community Engagement

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate critical thinking and organisational skills
  
• Engage in self-directed learning
  
• Demonstrate skills needed for individual and community engagement
  
• Demonstrate the skills needed to acquire, understand and assess information from a range of sources.
  
• Demonstrate knowledge and application of a framework for community analysis that includes bicultural components.
  
• Demonstrate knowledge relevant to working with a range of ethnically, sexuality, ability, age, and linguistically diverse populations.

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

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .