Key facts
UNE unit code: HDCW125
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- Trimester 2 - Online
- Yes
- No
- No
- 6
Unit information
This unit introduces the essential knowledge and skills you will need to advance you career in community health and welfare. Self-reflection and best practice review opportunities will be extensive in the effort to develop your own practice.
With an emphasis on the ethics, values, theories and philosophies underpinning community health work, you will build theoretical foundations to apply when providing community services across multiple settings and instances.
Examining distinctions between private and public issues in community development work, you will learn to effectively plan, coordinate, deliver, evaluate and improve community service activities.
You will also explore ways to optimise individual outcomes when working in socially and culturally diverse settings.
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| Teaching period | Mode/location |
|---|---|
| Trimester 2 | Online |
*Offering is subject to availability
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There are no intensive schools required for this unit.
Enrolment rules
There are no requisites for this unit.
Notes
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Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- describe the theoretical considerations required for effective community development and community capacity building through planning, implementation, evaluation of community-based programmes;
- discuss the ways in which self-reflective practice and the revision of best practice influences personal and professional development;
- discuss how personal biases and lived experience can influence service delivery in the context of ethical and equitable community work; and
- distinguish between public and private issues arising in community development work.
Assessment information
Assessments are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
| Title | Must Complete | Weight | Offerings | Assessment Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1 | Yes | 10% | All offerings | May include activities such as online group work, online Quiz, and online participation. No. Words: 1500 (equivalent)
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| Assessment 2 | Yes | 40% | All offerings | Written assignment No. Words: 1500 (equivalent)
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| Assessment 3 - Assurance Task | Yes | 50% | All offerings | 20 Minute online oral presentation of selected Case Study To pass this unit, you must achieve at least 50% in this task and meet all other passing requirements in the unit |
Learning resources
Textbooks are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.
Case Management: Inclusive Community Practice
ISBN: 9780190303198
Elizabeth Moore , Oxford University Press ANZ 2nd ed. 2016
Text refers to: All offerings
Community and Human Services Concepts for Practice
ISBN: 9780190302917
Karen Crinall and Lynda Berends, Oxford 2017
Text refers to: All offerings
Note: Recommended material may be held in the University Library — purchase is optional.
Ethical Dimensions in the Health Professions
ISBN: 9780323673648
Doherty, R. and Purtilo, R.B., Elsevier 7th ed. 2020
Text refers to: All offerings
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