Undergraduate Course: Working with Complexity in Social Work 2 (UG) (SCWR10021)

Course Outline
School	School of Social and Political Science	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	40	ECTS Credits	20
Summary	This course is taught using a variety of teaching and learning approaches including lectures and small groups. The course builds on previous teaching on the theory, skills and values of social work in its different contexts and takes it into the more complex areas of social work, in Scotland and beyond. This will be done through teaching and learning on subjects which will include risk, risk assessment and management, trust and need, boundaries and responsibilities, abuse and protection, ethics and values, support and empowerment of service users across a range of service user groups.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites	It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed Social and Political Enquiry 2 (SSPS08004) AND Social Policy and Society (SCPL08004) AND Politics of the Welfare State (SCPL08005) Students MUST have passed: Students MUST have passed: Social Work: Making A Difference (SCWR08003) AND Social Work: Policy and Legal Frameworks (SCWR08004) AND From Research into Practice: Landmarks in Social Work Research (SCWR08005) AND Social Policy and Society (SCPL08004) AND Politics of the Welfare State (SCPL08005) AND Social and Political Enquiry 2 (SSPS08004) AND Social Work in Communities (UG) (SCWR10019) AND Working with Complexity in Social Work 1 (UG) (SCWR10020) AND Practice Learning in Social Work 1(UG) (SCWR10017) AND Practice Study in Social Work 1 (UG) (SCWR10018)	Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course participants will be able to describe and evaluate: 1. Complex relationships between risk, trust and need in the context of a managerialist agenda in social care; 2. Complex relationships between justice, care and control in social welfare and community justice and the practical and ethical implications of these; 3. Identify and critically discuss the tensions and competing rights and needs in complex child and adult protection cases 4. The political nature of social work and welfare; 5. International perspectives on social welfare Three main SiESWE learning requirements will be principally addressed in this course: units 2, 3 and 5.