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Overview

This course aims to produce graduates who will 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. An on-campus intensive enables counselling skills practice with peers.

The course aims to produce graduates who are skilled and committed to engaging with ethical and sustainable practices and ongoing professional development and are able to practice in ways that show a commitment to social justice and the processes of reconciliation based on understanding the culture, experiences, histories and contemporary issues of Indigenous Australian communities. Graduates will also apply  their understanding of diversity and the 'common good' to work constructively, respectfully and effectively with individuals, families, local and global communities and workplaces.

Admission and Credit

Minimum ATAR required55

Admission

Entry Requirement

Credit

Credit Arrangements

Language requirements

Standard

Structure

Course information192 Credit Points
Essential set192 Credit Points
OR
Admission with Diploma (72)192 Credit Points
OR
Admission with Diploma (64)192 Credit Points

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 in scholarly and professional research, for sourcing, critiquing, applying, archiving and presentation of information in the human services context.
8.
Demonstrate a coherent knowledge of sustainable practice and identify and apply strategies to promote and support sustainability in a variety of human services contexts including challenges of climate change.
9.
Build a sense of the profession and their own professional identity through engaging in ongoing scholarship, research, and respectful and ethical participation with professional networks, online communities and communities of practice in a context of lifelong learning.

Professional accreditation

Australian Community Workers Association (ACWA)
Notes :https://study.csu.edu.au/find-courses/professional-accreditation

Alternative exit options

The Bachelor, Associate Degree [Exit Point Only] and Diploma [Exit Point Only] make up an articulated set of courses and credit is given in each higher level course for the subjects completed in the lower.