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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Social and Political Science : Social Work

Undergraduate Course: Working with Complexity in Social Work 1 (UG) (SCWR10020)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Social and Political Science CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course aims to help students to begin to develop an understanding of what the social work role is in an ever-shifting economic, political and cultural setting.

This course is taught using a problem-based learning approach in which students work together in small groups. Problem-based learning takes the form of Enquiry & Action Learning and is designed to enhance students' problem solving skills and knowledge of the theory, skills and values of social work in its different contexts. The EAL group work is supported by teaching and learning on continuity and change, care and control, capacity and coercion, collaboration and working with others, carer and user movements, ethics and codes of practice and social work skills.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Social Work: Making A Difference (SCWR08003) AND From Research into Practice: Landmarks in Social Work Research (SCWR08005) AND Social Work: Policy and Legal Frameworks (SCWR08004) AND Social and Political Enquiry 2 (SSPS08004) AND Social Policy and Society (SCPL08004) AND Politics of the Welfare State (SCPL08005) AND Social Work in Communities (UG) (SCWR10019)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course participants will be able to describe and evaluate:

1. The statutory framework governing social work practice across a range of service user groups.

2. The complex relationships between care, control and justice in social welfare and community justice and their practical and ethical implications.

3. The policy context of joint working, some of the issues raised by this and the factors and processes facilitating effective service integration, inter-agency collaboration and partnership.

4. Co-production with service users and carers in developing collaborative partnerships in social work practice.

5. The legal requirements relating to data protection and the rights of citizens to have access to information held about them.

Three main SiESWE learning requirements will be principally addressed in this course: units 2, 3 and 4.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information 6 hour(s) per week for 7 week(s).
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMs Susan Wallace
Tel: (0131 6)50 6646
Email: Susan.J.Wallace@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Jane Marshall
Tel: (0131 6)50 3912
Email: jane.marshall@ed.ac.uk
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