School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Working with Groups
  • Unit Code

    CSV1203
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Kwadwo ADUSEI-ASANTE

Description

This unit will equip you with the skills required for effectively working with groups. The unit will examine the nature of groups, process of group development and the dynamics of groups. It will identify different models and theoretical approaches to group work. The unit will create an awareness of the ways that power operates in groups and how group energies fluctuate according to context. The unit will provide you with opportunities to develop skills to lead groups and to become an effective group member. You will learn and apply the skills for addressing critical issues in working with groups, including ethical dilemmas, dealing with conflict, solving problems, and respectfully responding to all group members.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CSV3203, WMS3304

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discuss different models and theories of groups and group dynamics.
  2. Implement the skills needed to effectively interact as a participant, facilitator and observer in formal and informal groups in a range of community and cultural contexts.
  3. Apply appropriate strategies for responding to ethical dilemmas and common group work problems.
  4. Explain how group work skills can be used to facilitate decision making, direction setting and conflict resolution within groups.

Unit Content

  1. Nature of groups.
  2. Theories of group work.
  3. Participation in and leadership/facilitation of groups: communication, power and decision-making issues.
  4. Multicultural group work.
  5. Conflict in groups: conflict resolution and problem solving strategies.
  6. Ethical issues in group work.
  7. Group work skills.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Winter7 x 6 hour seminarNot OfferedNot 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

Role plays, group work.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Project ^Group activity and presentation40%
Reflective PracticeReflections on group theory and practices 40%
TestOnline test20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Project ^Group activity and presentation40%
Reflective PracticeReflections on group theory and practices 40%
TestOnline test20%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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.

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. 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, 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, Examination and Moderation Procedures - 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, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Working with Groups
  • Unit Code

    CSV1203
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Kwadwo ADUSEI-ASANTE

Description

This unit will equip you with the skills required for effectively working with groups. The unit will examine the nature of groups, process of group development and the dynamics of groups. It will identify different models and theoretical approaches to group work. The unit will create an awareness of the ways that power operates in groups and how group energies fluctuate according to context. The unit will provide you with opportunities to develop skills to lead groups and to become an effective group member. You will learn and apply the skills for addressing critical issues in working with groups, including ethical dilemmas, dealing with conflict, solving problems, and respectfully responding to all group members.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CSV3203, WMS3304

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discuss different models and theories of groups and group dynamics.
  2. Implement the skills needed to effectively interact as a participant, facilitator and observer in formal and informal groups in a range of community and cultural contexts.
  3. Apply appropriate strategies for responding to ethical dilemmas and common group work problems.
  4. Explain how group work skills can be used to facilitate decision making, direction setting and conflict resolution within groups.

Unit Content

  1. Nature of groups.
  2. Theories of group work.
  3. Participation in and leadership/facilitation of groups: communication, power and decision-making issues.
  4. Multicultural group work.
  5. Conflict in groups: conflict resolution and problem solving strategies.
  6. Ethical issues in group work.
  7. Group work skills.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Winter7 x 6 hour seminarNot OfferedNot 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

Role plays, group work.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Project ^Group activity and presentation40%
Reflective PracticeReflections on group theory and practices 40%
TestOnline test20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Project ^Group activity and presentation40%
Reflective PracticeReflections on group theory and practices 40%
TestOnline test20%

^ Mandatory to Pass


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.

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. 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, 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, Examination and Moderation Procedures - 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, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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