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Bachelor of Human Services

Course code/s: Albury-Wodonga (HBHSVW), Bendigo (HBHSVB), Melbourne (HBHSV)

This course is only available for continuing students. Those wishing to study human services should apply for the Bachelor of Human Services and Master of Social Work.

This course is offered as a three-year degree for post-VCE entry. It is designed to prepare graduates for work in welfare agencies in service provision, research, and administrative roles. Students will develop the knowledge, values, and skills appropriate for understanding the welfare needs of individuals, families, groups, and communities and methods of responding to these needs. Students will develop the capacity for analysing and working effectively within welfare organisations, including work in interdisciplinary teams. Elective studies are available in social policy, community work, and a range of fields of practice.

The curriculum of the course is based on a philosophy of social justice, and is taught within an adult-learning model.

Course structure

Students are required to undertake a course of studies equivalent to that listed below. Some subject codes differ depending upon the campus of offer. The following course structure is that for the Melbourne (Bundoora) campus. For the structure of courses offered at the Albury-Wodonga and Bendigo campuses, please refer to those campus entries elsewhere in this Handbook.

Electives, subject to approval, may be chosen from the complete range of subjects offered on the campus where a student is enrolled. From time to time students may be required to attend some lectures and seminars in block mode and/or out of normal university hours.

First year (no new intake 2012)

Teaching period	Subject code	Subject title	Credit points
TE-SEM-1	PSY1EFP	Experimental Foundations of Psychological Science	15
TE-SEM-1	SOC1SAC	Introduction to Sociology	15
TE-SEM-1	SWP1ITP	Introduction to Social Work A	15
TE-SEM-1	Elective1	Can be taken from subjects offered at campus of enrolment	15
TE-SEM-2	PSY1CFP	Clinical Foundations of Psychological Science	15
TE-SEM-2	SOC1AAB	Australia and Beyond: Introduction to Sociology	15
TE-SEM-2	SWP1SPP	Social Policy and Practice A	15
TE-SEM-2	Elective1	Can be taken from subjects offered at campus of enrolment	15

 

Second year (continuing students only)

Teaching period	Subject code	Subject title	Credit points
TE-SEM-1	SWP2DLC	Development Across the Life Course in Social Contexts	20
TE-SEM-1	SWP2PPH	Professional Practice: History and Values	30
TE-SEM-1	Elective1	Can be taken from subjects offered at campus of enrolment	20
TE-SEM-2	SWP2OCP	Organisation Contexts of Social Work Practice	20
TE-SEM-2	SWP2REC	Social Work and Reflective Communication	20
TE-SEM-2	SWP2RES	Research for Social Work Practice A	10

 

Third year (continuing students only)

Teaching period	Subject code	Subject title	Credit points
TE-SEM-1	Elective1	Can be taken from anywhere in the University	20
TE-SEM-1	SWP3LER	Social Work Practice: Law Ethics and Human Rights	15
TE-SEM-1	SWP3RES	Research for Social Work Practice B	15
TE-SEM-2	SWP4FPC	Fields of Social Work Practice C	15
TE-W31-37	SWP3FOP	Fields of Social Work Practice A	15
TE-SEM-2	Elective1	Can be taken from subjects offered at campus of enrolment	20
TE-SEM-2	Elective1	Can be taken from subjects offered at campus of enrolment	20

Key:
^1. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that they satisfy any prerequisites when choosing an elective.