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Unit of Study WELF5003 - Australian Social Welfare in a Global Context (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    PG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

This unit examines the development and key features of the Australian social welfare system in comparison to other welfare regimes around the world. Concepts of cultural awareness and safety, decolonisation and anti-oppressive practice are examined.

Unit content

  1. Welfare regimes in Australia and around the world
  2. Ideology and social welfare
  3. Critical frameworks and reflection in social welfare
  4. Social control and social justice
  5. First Nations peoples and decolonisation
  6. Professional practice in human service organisations

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Not currently available in 2025

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

critically analyse the characteristics of Australia's social welfare system in relation to welfare regimes internationally

critically reflect on the historical treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia's welfare system and implications for decolonisation, cultural safety and anti-oppressive practice

critically reflect on own background and the learning needed to become an effective social worker in the Australian context

demonstrate critical thinking, critical analysis and critical reflection as appropriate for postgraduate study in social work