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This is a foundational course undertaken as a compulsory face-to-face five-day residential school. It is purposefully positioned at the beginning of the program to introduce students to the dynamic landscape of social work and human services practice. To inspire and provide students a sense of the ethical profession they have chosen, there is essential learning about the diversity of fields of practice and populations served by social work and human services practitioners.

Specifically, the course will provide an introduction to key concepts, theories, and frameworks that practitioners use as change agents when undertaking emancipatory work with individuals, groups, and communities within their social contexts. In the socio-political context of neoliberalism, the need for systemic change is considered with careful critical examination of the roles practitioners can play.

The historical development of social work and human services will be discussed to inform contemporary underpinnings of services including ethics, values, concepts of power, oppression, privilege, and positionality. Students will develop a critical approach to practice early in the degree, necessary to ground them in a strong professional identity that promotes social justice and social change.

This course includes a compulsory five-day residential school that introduces students to the foundations of social work and human services practice. The aim of this intensive workshop is to develop foundational practical skills to help develop professional identity and inspire students to continue their studies. In addition to an introduction to foundational professional knowledge, theory and skills, students will undertake seminars on: academic literacy, an introduction to use of library databases and search strategies, critical thinking and critical writing, and how to reference. They will be given opportunities to meet the academics who will teach then in the coming years.

An examination of the historical development of the professional identity of social work and human services professionals will be explored. Contemporary social work and human services practice fields, including methods for intervention across micro, meso and macro environments will be illustrated. Critical perspectives will be used to shed light on contemporary social issues presenting in Australia and globally; and subsequent ways of `doing' in social work and human services practice. Students will have developed contextual knowledge about the roles and ethical obligations of social work and human services practitioners, and the purpose and mission of the profession in striving to attain social justice, social cohesion, empowerment and liberation of people (IFSW, 2014). Students will complete the course having developed a clear understanding of the purpose and domains of social work and human services practice, an introduction to ethical and professional standards, social work and human services knowledge and interpersonal and communication skills.

The five-day compulsory residential school will take place in the middle of the course. There will be practical opportunities to acquire and gently practice knowledge and skills but also strategic opportunities to network and connect with other students and teaching staff.

This course contains a mandatory residential school for all students. The residential school is foundational to the first-year experience.