Postgraduate Course: Working with Complexity in Social Work 1(PG) (SCWR11007)
This course will be closed from 31 July 2012
Course Outline
| School | School of Social and Political Science |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Social Work |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course aims to help students to begin to develop an understanding of what the social work role is in an ever-shifting economic, political and cultural setting.
This course is taught using a problem-based learning approach in which students work together in small groups. Problem-based learning takes the form of Enquiry & Action Learning and is designed to enhance students' problem solving skills and knowledge of the theory, skills and values of social work in its different contexts. The EAL group work is supported by teaching and learning on continuity and change, care and control, capacity and coercion, collaboration and working with others, carer and user movements, ethics and codes of practice and social work skills. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
Social Work in Communities (PG) (SCWR10025)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course participants will be able to describe and evaluate:
1. The statutory framework governing social work practice across a range of service user groups.
2. The complex relationships between care, control and justice in social welfare and community justice and their practical and ethical implications.
3. The policy context of joint working, some of the issues raised by this and the factors and processes facilitating effective service integration, inter-agency collaboration and partnership.
4. Co-production with service users and carers in developing collaborative partnerships in social work practice.
5. The legal requirements relating to data protection and the rights of citizens to have access to information held about them.
Three main SiESWE learning requirements will be principally addressed in this course: units 2, 3 and 4.
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Assessment Information
Components of Assessment This course will be formally assessed by different means:
A group presentation 20%
An assignment 80%
Students are required to pass each component part of the course assessment; the second component of the assessment is an assignment which explores legal and ethical issues (3000 words), which needs to be passed, at 40% or above, independent of the group presentation in order to pass the course.
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Susan Wallace
Tel: (0131 6)50 6646
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Course secretary | Mrs Jane Marshall
Tel: (0131 6)50 3912
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