SOWK525-10W (C) Whole Year 2010

Advanced Social Work Principles and Practice

24 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2010
End Date: Sunday, 14 November 2010
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 7 March 2010
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 5 September 2010

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 
Essay 1 30%
Essay 2 30%
Final Exam 40%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

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

Recommended Reading

Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy ;

Goldenberg, Herbert. , Goldenberg, Irene; Family therapy : an overview ; 7th ed; Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2008.

Course links

Library portal

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,087.00

* 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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