Overview

This course aims to provide graduates with a foundation in the human service disciplines, with introductory skills to become workers in rural, regional and urban Australia with knowledge and skills to facilitate their successful and effective engagement in the human services industry. The online nature of the program offers flexible study options making it accessible to students wanting to enter the field or currently working in the field seeking a qualification.

Admission and Credit

Minimum ATAR required55

Admission

Entry Requirement

Language requirements

Standard

Structure

Essential set 64 Credit Points

Enrolment Pattern

Full-time

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of this course, graduates will be able to:
1.
Apply acquired knowledge of key aspects of Australian society, including its history, social, political, environmental, legal, economic arrangements and its continuing effect on Indigenous Australians in human services settings.
2.
Develop discipline specific intercultural skills that enable cultural responsiveness and effectiveness of practice with Indigenous Australian communities drawing from the paradigms, contexts, worldviews and culture of local, national and global communities to inform scholarship and professional practice.
3.
Apply principles of social justice, human rights, and non-oppressive practices that effect change for and with disadvantaged groups in society.
4.
Analyse and evaluate the situations, responses and intrinsic values of individuals, groups, communities and organisations using basic law, ethics and critical thinking.
5.
Demonstrate capability as inquirers to locate, evaluate, manage and use information and research to develop and guide their professional practice and for further study.
6.
Evaluate culturally sensitive practices with regards to scholarly and professional communication, taking into account power dynamics, context, gender, linguistic, spiritual, religious and Indigenous backgrounds.
7.
Employ a variety of technology and media for sourcing, critiquing, applying, archiving and presentation of information in the human services context.

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