HSW216 - Public Policy and Politics for Critical Social Workers
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Waterfront (Geelong) campus, Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)* |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in H330 Bachelor of Social Work. |
| Prerequisite: | HSW101, ASC101 and ASC102 |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 1 x 2 hour lecture per week supported by weekly online independent and collaborative learning activities. |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | Online students only: Online independent and collaborative learning activities will support learning across the trimester. NIKERI-CBD students only: Online independent and collaborative learning activities including online practical experiences (workshops). |
| In-person attendance requirements | Campus students only: 1 x 2 hour lecture per week. Campus students are required to attend at least 9 out of the 11 lectures. NIKERI-CBD students only: There are compulsory intensives for all students at the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute, Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus. These intensives are arranged by year-level. Please contact the NIKERI Social Work Course Team for more information on 1800 063 383 |
| Note: | *National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute students only. |
Content
Public policy, in the form of legislation, formal policy documents and principles that guide action, covers all of social work’s fields of practice, including working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities, community development, refugees and asylum seekers, family violence, sexual assault, research, aged care, income support, medical and health care, addictions, mental-health care, disability, child protection, youth and trauma. It can facilitate, or, if poorly informed or implemented, hinder, the promotion of social justice, social inclusion and wellbeing. A good working knowledge of public policy, and the political forces, values and ideas that shape it, is therefore of vital importance to effective social work practice. Knowledge of these forces, values and ideas is also relevant to other aspects of social work practice, as they intimately affect those other forms of practice. This unit emphasises these connections between politics and public policy and personal and professional choices and actions. It recognises that everyone studying this unit will have thought through, argued for, and put into practice, their values and beliefs, and seeks to value and build on that experience and ability.
Unit Fee Information
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