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School: Arts and Humanities

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  • Unit Title

    Designing Support Programs

  • Unit Code

    CHS2203

  • Year

    2026

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Rosa NAPOLITANO-LINCOLN

Description

This unit applies a strength based approach to review the needs of communities when designing and delivering support programs. It includes investigation of some current government and non-government programs specifically in the components of evidence and research bases, operations and funding sources.Students will use this understanding to design a community and human services support program.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have passed 120 credit points before enrolling in this unit

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CHN3102, CHN4115, CHN3206

Unit Content

  1. Components of effective community and human services support programs.
  2. Current research on community and human services support programs.
  3. The range and types of community and human services support programs, purposes and effectiveness.
  4. Integrating the theory into community and human services support program professional practice.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

City CampusJoondalupSouth West (Bunbury)
Term 3Not Offered5 x 6.5 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Guest speakers from the field. All students enrolled in O13 Bachelor of Community and Human Services, including those who elect to study online, need to complete 5 days of classroom-based learning in this unit as a Community Workers Australia (CWA) requirement. All other students, including students enrolled in C57 Bachelor of Youth Work, should enrol in the unit offering that does not include the 5 days of classroom-based learning. Please see the notes in the timetable for each offering for more information."

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectDesigna support program50%
Case StudyCritique of a support program50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectDesigna support program50%
Case StudyCritique of a support program50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

  • Plagiarism: Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).
  • Unauthorised collaboration (collusion): Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).
  • Contract cheating: Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.
  • Cheating in an exam: Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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