Course Coordinator:Vinathe Sharma-Brymer (vsharmabrymer@usc.edu.au) School:School of Law and Society
USC Sunshine Coast |
Blended learning | Most of your course is on campus but you may be able to do some components of this course online. |
Please go to the USC website for up to date information on the
teaching sessions and campuses where this course is usually offered.
Professionals in many fields (social work, counselling, planning, teaching, environmental management, health) are expected to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families and communities. This course provides relevant multidisciplinary knowledge to critically reflect on current ways of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and develop specific strategies to effectively engage to deliver culturally inclusive practices.
Activity | Hours | Beginning Week | Frequency |
Blended learning | |||
Learning materials – Online learning materials | 1hr | Week 1 | 13 times |
Tutorial/Workshop 1 – Face-to-face tutorials | 2hrs | Week 1 | 11 times |
Colonisation and decolonising social work
Knowing, doing and being
Human rights
Racism and anti-racism
Theorietical and practice frameworks
Contemporary challenges (e.g. health, mental health, intergenerational trauma)
Effective engagement, consultation and collaboration practices
Valuing and embedding Indigenous knowledges
Community development
Practice framework
700 Level (Specialised)
12 units
Course Learning Outcomes On successful completion of this course, you should be able to... | Graduate Qualities Mapping Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming... | Professional Standard Mapping * Australian Association of Social Workers | |
1 | Understand historical and contemporary social and political issues that impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples | Knowledgeable |
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2 | Identify personal and professional values in social work practice with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples |
Ethical Engaged |
1, 1.1, 2 |
3 | Demonstrate knowledge and skills of culturally responsive social work practices with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people |
Knowledgeable Creative and critical thinker |
3, 3.2 |
CODE | COMPETENCY |
Australian Association of Social Workers | |
1 | Values and ethics |
1.1 | Practise in accordance with the AASW Code of Ethics |
2 | Professionalism |
3 | Culturally responsive and inclusive practice |
3.2 | Respect and strive to understand and promote the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their cultures |
Refer to the USC Glossary of terms for definitions of “pre-requisites, co-requisites and anti-requisites”.
Not applicable
Not applicable
SCS701
Not applicable
Standard Grading (GRD)
High Distinction (HD), Distinction (DN), Credit (CR), Pass (PS), Fail (FL). |
Early feedback will be provided in weekly tutorial activities and discussions and with feedback on reflective journal entries.
Delivery mode | Task No. | Assessment Product | Individual or Group | Weighting % | What is the duration / length? | When should I submit? | Where should I submit it? |
All | 1 | Activity Participation | Individual | 10% | 11 tutorials |
Throughout teaching period (refer to Format) | In Class |
All | 2 | Artefact - Creative, and Oral | Individual | 20% | 10-12 minute recorded video presentation |
Week 7 | Online Submission |
All | 3 | Journal | Individual | 30% | 2000 words |
Week 11 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
All | 4 | Case Study | Individual | 40% | 3000 words |
Week 13 | Online Assignment Submission with plagiarism check |
All - Assessment Task 1:Tutorial Attendance and Participation | |
Goal: | AASW external accreditation requires mandatory attendance for skills based tutorials. Students must attend weekly tutorials and actively participate in all tutorial activities. |
Product: | Activity Participation |
Format: | Tutorial attendance will be recorded to meet external AASW accreditation requirements. Student participation and engagement in tutorial activities assessed based upon attendance and participation across 11 tutorials. |
Criteria: |
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All - Assessment Task 2:Video Recorded Poster Presentation | |
Goal: | Present a poster presentation that demonstrates an aspect of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander history and its relevance for social work practice |
Product: | Artefact - Creative, and Oral |
Format: | Recorded Video Powerpoint presentation |
Criteria: |
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All - Assessment Task 3:Reflective Journal | |
Goal: | To critically reflect on weekly content to demonstrate you understand key concepts. |
Product: | Journal |
Format: | Your reflective piece will require you to analyse and critically reflect on the course content and the themes presented throughout the course. |
Criteria: |
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All - Assessment Task 4:Case Study Application | |
Goal: | To critically apply your knowledge and skills to demonstrate your understanding of being culturally responsive. |
Product: | Case Study |
Format: | This case study requires you to develop relevant multidisciplinary knowledge to critical analyse current ways of working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals or communities and develop specific strategies to engage and provide culturally inclusive services. |
Criteria: |
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A 12-unit course will have total of 150 learning hours which will include directed study hours (including online if required), self-directed learning and completion of assessable tasks. Directed study hours may vary by location. Student workload is calculated at 12.5 learning hours per one unit.
Please note: Course information, including specific information of recommended readings, learning activities, resources, weekly readings, etc. are available on the course Canvas site– Please log in as soon as possible.
Please note that you need to have regular access to the resource(s) listed below. Resources may be required or recommended.
Required? | Author | Year | Title | Edition | Publisher |
Required | Bindi Bennett,Sue Green | 2019 | Our Voices | 2nd | Red Globe Press |
On-line students are not required to attend campus. Students need a PC (https://usc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1371) and access to the Internet to complete this course.
Academic integrity is the ethical standard of university participation. It ensures that students graduate as a result of proving they are competent in their discipline. This is integral in maintaining the value of academic qualifications. Each industry has expectations and standards of the skills and knowledge within that discipline and these are reflected in assessment.
Academic integrity means that you do not engage in any activity that is considered to be academic fraud; including plagiarism, collusion or outsourcing any part of any assessment item to any other person. You are expected to be honest and ethical by completing all work yourself and indicating in your work which ideas and information were developed by you and which were taken from others. You cannot provide your assessment work to others. You are also expected to provide evidence of wide and critical reading, usually by using appropriate academic references.
In order to minimise incidents of academic fraud, this course may require that some of its assessment tasks, when submitted to Canvas, are electronically checked through Turnitin. This software allows for text comparisons to be made between your submitted assessment item and all other work to which Turnitin has access.
Eligibility for Supplementary Assessment Your eligibility for supplementary assessment in a course is dependent of the following conditions applying: The final mark is in the percentage range 47% to 49.4% The course is graded using the Standard Grading scale You have not failed an assessment task in the course due to academic misconduct
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