Ethical Decision Making

Course aim

To enable students to apply specialised professional and ethical practice frameworks to shape strategies for practice, research, advocacy and systems change.

Course content

Students will use skills as an ethical and reflexive practitioner to explore the relationship between self as a social worker, practice frameworks and social science knowledge. Students will develop and evaluate knowledge of recent developments in evidence-based practice and the re-creation of social work knowledges.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
WELF 5099	Social Work and Policy Practice
WELF 5098	Contemporary Practice Theories for Social Work
WELF 5104	Social Work Practice Skills

Corequisite(s)

Common to all relevant programs
Subject Area & Catalogue Number	Course Name
WELF 5105	Social Work Practicum 1

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, MAGILL
Tutorial	30 hours x N/A
EXTERNAL, MAGILL, ONLINE
Online	30 hours x N/A

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Case study, Essay

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 4S)
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