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Campus: Kensington Campus
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Career: Undergraduate
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Units of Credit: 6
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Contact Hours per Week: 3
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Description
Explores further the study of social and political institutions and structures and their effect on social work. Builds on the use of theory to understand the link between policy and practice in diverse public and private arenas. Identifies crucial factors in the distribution of resources, status and power. Provides a foundation for the study of Social Policy 1 and 2.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Identify and understand general social theory that relates to social work practice and to social policy
- Examine society using the macro and micro concepts of applied sociological and social policy theory including the welfare state, post-welfare, distribution and re-distribution, social rights and risk, the global economy and inequalities, social work history, urban society, poverty, postmodernism, sexism and racism, and violence from different theoretical perspectives
- Apply concepts and ideas from social policy, economics and sociology to areas encountered in social and public policy that are relevant to the social work profession
- Develop awareness in students of the basic values and assumptions of various social, political and economic theories and how these assumptions affect both policy and social work interventions
- Lay theoretical foundations for social policy subjects and social work practice subjects.
Assessment
- Tutorial presentation - 30%
- Article commentary - 30%
- Essay (1500-1800 words) - 40%
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