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.

  • Unit Title

    Social Work Theory and Practice 3: Collective Interventions
  • Unit Code

    SWK4111
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Susan BAILEY

Description

This unit prepares students for social work practice in rural, regional, remote and urban localities. It considers community building and group work practice from a social work perspective, through a social justice and sustainability framework. The emphasis in the unit is on working constructively and respectfully with difference and conflict. Students will examine creative and resourceful means of implementing collective intervention policies and practices to mobilise services, obtain resources and advocate on behalf of/with others.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students undertaking this unit in Off-Campus mode must attend the 5-day Residential on an ECU campus as a requirement of completing this unit.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units from SWK3116, SWK3121

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SWK5111

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the conceptual and ideological framing of collective intervention approaches to social work practice in rural, regional and remote communities.
  2. Develop a personal practice model within a framework of social justice, sustainability and collectivist practices.
  3. Identify and apply relevant community development theories and practices.
  4. Identify and apply relevant group work theories and practices.
  5. Outline the influence of power differences in working collectively.

Unit Content

  1. Collective intervention strategies.
  2. Identifying and responding to the needs of communities.
  3. Impact and use of professional self.
  4. Social justice and sustainability principles and practices.
  5. Theory and practice of community development.
  6. Theory and practice of group work.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not OfferedNot Offered13 x 3 hour seminar

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, discussion groups, case studies and audiovisual resources. Off-Campus delivery includes on-line instruction and attendance at 5-day residential.

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
PresentationSymposium20%
AssignmentProject Workbook40%
Reflective PracticeReflective Paper40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationSymposium20%
AssignmentProject Workbook40%
Reflective PracticeReflective paper40%

Core Reading(s)

  • Brock, A. (2017). Change Here Now. Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation. Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/988575883
  • Muirhead, T. (2020). Weaving Tapestries: The New Handbook for Building Communities (pp. ix, 85). Western Australia: Vivid Publishing and Local Government Professionals. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1140939243

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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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.

  • Unit Title

    Social Work Theory and Practice 3: Collective Interventions
  • Unit Code

    SWK4111
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Susan BAILEY

Description

This unit prepares students for social work practice in rural, regional, remote and urban localities. It considers community building and group work practice from a social work perspective, through a social justice and sustainability framework. The emphasis in the unit is on working constructively and respectfully with difference and conflict. Students will examine creative and resourceful means of implementing collective intervention policies and practices to mobilise services, obtain resources and advocate on behalf of/with others.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Students undertaking this unit in Off-Campus mode must attend the 5-day Residential on an ECU campus as a requirement of completing this unit.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 2 units from SWK3116, SWK3121

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SWK5111

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the conceptual and ideological framing of collective intervention approaches to social work practice in rural, regional and remote communities.
  2. Develop a personal practice model within a framework of social justice, sustainability and collectivist practices.
  3. Identify and apply relevant community development theories and practices.
  4. Identify and apply relevant group work theories and practices.
  5. Outline the influence of power differences in working collectively.

Unit Content

  1. Collective intervention strategies.
  2. Identifying and responding to the needs of communities.
  3. Impact and use of professional self.
  4. Social justice and sustainability principles and practices.
  5. Theory and practice of community development.
  6. Theory and practice of group work.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not OfferedNot Offered13 x 3 hour seminar

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, discussion groups, case studies and audiovisual resources. Off-Campus delivery includes on-line instruction and attendance at 5-day residential.

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
PresentationSymposium20%
AssignmentProject Workbook40%
Reflective PracticeReflective Paper40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationSymposium20%
AssignmentProject Workbook40%
Reflective PracticeReflective paper40%

Core Reading(s)

  • Brock, A. (2017). Change Here Now. Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation. Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/988575883
  • Muirhead, T. (2020). Weaving Tapestries: The New Handbook for Building Communities (pp. ix, 85). Western Australia: Vivid Publishing and Local Government Professionals. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1140939243

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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