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Applications in Social and Community Work
SCS 570 (Offering: 2003)


Description


Postgraduate Course
This course is devoted to developing the professional knowledge demanded of a community worker. Community work is concerned with the pursuit of social justice through community empowerment by interacting with individuals, groups, communities and organisations. This requires a highly developed range of specialised practice knowledge, transferable across a wide range of practice situations that enable the worker to build purposeful and meaningful relationships with disadvantaged people from a variety of social and cultural backgrounds. This course focuses on such practice knowledge and equips student to understand and operate as a professional community worker.

Usual Semester of offer: Semester 1

Other Information

Area(s) of Study: Social and Community Studies

Number of Units: 12

Antirequisite: SCS270  

 

 

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