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Unit of Study SWRK2005 Social Work Placement I (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    36

  • Faculty & College

  • Placement

    Yes

  • Enrolment information

    International onshore students must enrol in the internal offering of this unit. This unit contains Work Integrated Learning (WIL) that requires students to meet mandatory fit to practice obligations prior to attending. Failure to comply by the fit to practice deadline will result in the cancellation of your WIL and you will not be permitted to continue in this unit. Full details are available at www.scu.edu.au/health/work-integrated-learning.

  • Enrolment restriction

    Students must seek approval to enrol via a Unit Approval Request (www.scu.edu.au/enrol-uar) following submission of fit to practice documentation.


Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

form, maintain and end professional and ethical social work relationships with clients, colleagues and supervisors in a human service organisation

demonstrate and critically reflect on effective engagement and communication with clients, colleagues, supervisors and other key stakeholders

analyse the role of social work and ways in which a social work services are provided within the organisation and practice field

analyse, apply and critically reflect on social work knowledge, including theoretical and research knowledge, to understand and inform social work practice in this agency and identify learning needs

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method
Placement 500 hours (Across placement period)
Assessment
PortfolioSR
JournalSR
PresentationSR
EvaluationSR
PresentationSR
EvaluationSR
JournalSR
PlacementSR

Teaching method
Placement 500 hours (Across placement period)
Assessment
PortfolioSR
JournalSR
PresentationSR
EvaluationSR
PresentationSR
EvaluationSR
JournalSR
PlacementSR

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