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

    Field Placement 1
  • Unit Code

    SWK3116
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    45
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Gemma Louise MARTIN

Description

This unit comprises two components: a supervised Social Work practice placement (comprising of a minimum of 500 hours) and integrative academic study. Students are placed in social work organisational settings, where they practice and learn social work under the supervision of a qualified social worker. The unit enables the student to build an understanding of a particular field of practice through a structured fieldwork placement, organised and supported by academic staff. Field Placement 1 meets the standards of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) guidelines for social work field placement education. Due to the experiential and active participation requirements of this unit, new enrolments are not accepted after the end of week 2 of the teaching period.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 3 units from SWK3110, SWK3112, SWK3113

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SWK3115

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply social work practice skills in the context of the agency setting.
  2. Demonstrate an ability to effectively work in a team and organisational context.
  3. Describe the legislative and policy context of the placement agency's work.
  4. Effectively use supervision for professional development and learning.
  5. Explain the interaction between person, situation and context as a function that shapes social and individual problems.
  6. Identify and appropriately respond to ethical considerations that arise in the course of the placement.
  7. Research and evaluate theoretical and empirical knowledge used in practice.

Unit Content

  1. Ethics and values in social work practice.
  2. Integrative learning and reflective practice.
  3. Organisational learning and practicing in team and collegial settings.
  4. Policy context of human service development and delivery.
  5. Practice and apply beginning social work skills in agency settings.
  6. The role of theory and research in informing and directing social work practice.
  7. Using supervision for professional development and learning.

Learning Experience

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

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Supervised practicum, and on-campus or online integration workshops.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

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
TypeDescription
Practicum ^Field Placement
Portfolio ^Learning Links
ONLINE
TypeDescription
Practicum ^Field Placement
Portfolio ^Learning Links

^ 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

    Field Placement 1
  • Unit Code

    SWK3116
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    45
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Gemma Louise MARTIN

Description

This unit comprises two components: a supervised Social Work practice placement (comprising of a minimum of 500 hours) and integrative academic study. Students are placed in social work organisational settings, where they practice and learn social work under the supervision of a qualified social worker. The unit enables the student to build an understanding of a particular field of practice through a structured fieldwork placement, organised and supported by academic staff. Field Placement 1 meets the standards of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) guidelines for social work field placement education. Due to the experiential and active participation requirements of this unit, new enrolments are not accepted after the end of week 2 of the teaching period.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 3 units from SWK3110, SWK3112, SWK3113

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SWK3115

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply social work practice skills in the context of the agency setting.
  2. Demonstrate an ability to effectively work in a team and organisational context.
  3. Describe the legislative and policy context of the placement agency's work.
  4. Effectively use supervision for professional development and learning.
  5. Explain the interaction between person, situation and context as a function that shapes social and individual problems.
  6. Identify and appropriately respond to ethical considerations that arise in the course of the placement.
  7. Research and evaluate theoretical and empirical knowledge used in practice.

Unit Content

  1. Ethics and values in social work practice.
  2. Integrative learning and reflective practice.
  3. Organisational learning and practicing in team and collegial settings.
  4. Policy context of human service development and delivery.
  5. Practice and apply beginning social work skills in agency settings.
  6. The role of theory and research in informing and directing social work practice.
  7. Using supervision for professional development and learning.

Learning Experience

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

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Supervised practicum, and on-campus or online integration workshops.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

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
TypeDescription
Practicum ^Field Placement
Portfolio ^Learning Links
ONLINE
TypeDescription
Practicum ^Field Placement
Portfolio ^Learning Links

^ 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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