Bachelor of Social Work with Honours
Bachelor of Social Work with Honours
Now more than ever compassionate and engaged social workers are needed to help improve the life and wellbeing of people and to combat societal inequality. Social workers need contemporary skills to respond meaningfully to social problems. Our Bachelor of Social Work with Honours has been designed with direct industry input…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Now more than ever compassionate and engaged social workers are needed to help improve the life and wellbeing of people and to combat societal inequality.
Social workers need contemporary skills to respond meaningfully to social problems. Our Bachelor of Social Work with Honours has been designed with direct industry input to reflect current and emerging practice trends in the profession.
The Bachelor of Social Work with Honours is a professionally accredited qualification, awarded full accreditation by the Australian Association of Social Workers. It is an entry qualification into the social work profession and has been determined to meet the Australian Social Work Education and Accreditation Standards.
The honours-level course has specialisation options, and you will engage with distinctive Tasmanian, national, and international contexts. Threaded through the course is a focus on decolonising, Indigenising, sustainability, collaboration, and innovation in social work, ensuring that as a graduate, you are well-equipped for new and diverse roles in changing workplaces.
The Bachelor of Social Work with Honours prepares students for generalist social work practice, helping them to develop core knowledge, skills and values that can be applied across practice settings, fields and methods of social work practice.
Course objectives
You will graduate as a creative and ethical communicator who respectfully uses knowledge to meet the needs of diverse social work client groups, communities and organisations. You will be able to respond to social justice and human rights challenges in ways that are culturally sensitive, principled, and effective.
Learning Outcomes
Recommend improvements to services, policies and professional accountability in social work based on critical analysis, research, and culturally relevant knowledge.
Combine decolonising social work knowledge and practices to address inequality and injustice in ways that promote sustainable social change.
Adapt and respond to the communication needs and capacities of diverse social work client groups, communities, and organisations.
Develop social work leadership approaches that are collaborative, cooperative and useful in micro, meso and macro contexts.
Formulate ethical social work responses to local, national and global social justice and human rights challenges.
Design interventions and strategies that can contribute to the decolonising agenda in social work by using creative, entrepreneurial, and relational approaches.
Career outcomes
The skills and expertise our Social Work graduates gain equips them for a diverse range of rewarding careers, including:
child safety practitioner
social worker
project manager
youth worker
mental health practitioner
researcher
policy analyst and advisor
community development worker
migrant and refugee settlement workers
case manager
drug and alcohol counsellor
palliative care social worker
relationships counsellor
disability advocate.
REQUIREMENTS
Admission to undergraduate courses at the University of Tasmania requires the completion of qualifications equivalent to a 12th year of education in Australia.
You can also meet the General Entry Requirement for this course with the following qualifications or prior studies:
Completion of an equivalent AQF Certificate IV or above
Complete or incomplete (minimum 25 credit points) of previous tertiary study at Bachelor level or higher
English Language Requirements
This degree requires an IELTS (Academic) of 7.0, with no individual band less than 7.0. No equivalent tests accepted for this course.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
The University of Tasmania was officially founded on 1st January 1890 and is located at Sandy Bay, Tasmania. In addition to the main campus at Sandy Bay, it also operates out of the Newnham Campus and the Cradle Coast Campus. The most popular courses offered are the environmental studies that include wilderness management, marine sciences and indigenous studies in Tasmanian literature. Other unconventional courses include agriculture development, studies on the community and population and ocean study programs. The university also comprises of a Music Conservatorium, Art school and a School of Clinical studies.
