HSRV301-18W (C) Whole Year 2018

Change and Human Systems

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 February 2018
End Date: Sunday, 18 November 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 2 March 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 7 September 2018

Description

This course uses theory to illuminate the functioning and processes of change within and across family, organisation, community and global systems. In addition to critically examining the relationship between oppression, empowerment and change in human systems, the course broadly considers ethical values and the legal obligations of human service delivery systems.

Aims:

•  To introduce students to change frameworks and their utility in the human services
•  Critically consider the intersection of ethnicity, class, and gender in the analysis of social
   change and empowerment.
•  To engage in reflexive thinking and negotiate between the different arguments proposed by
   social theorists
•  Critical examination of the relationship between oppression, empowerment and change in
   human systems.
•  To introduce students to the practical and theoretical considerations inherent in working
   with community and global structures.

Learning Outcomes

  • At the end of course the student will be able to:
  •  Critically analyze and can demonstrate reflective skills in relation to identification, intervention
      and evaluation of change in practice and organisational frameworks.  
  •  Have an understanding of the relevance and application of contemporary social theory
      for working with local community and global level structures
  •  Critically examine the relationship between oppression, empowerment and change in human
      systems.
  •  Have an appreciation of complex ethical values and legal obligations of human service
      delivery systems.

      • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

      Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Prerequisites

Any 30 points of Human Services at 200 level including HSRV204. Students without this prerequisite but with at least 60 points at 200 level or above in appropriate courses may enter the course with the permission of the Programme Coordinator.

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Literature Review 29 Mar 2018 15%
Reflexive Journal 01 Jun 2018 25%
Class Presentation 10% Dates to be advised
Research Statement 06 Aug 2018 10%
Research Project 19 Oct 2018 40%

Textbooks / Resources

No course textbook.  All readings/materials are available on LEARN.

Notes

The administrator for the Human Services and Social Work Department is Denise Forbes and she can be located in room 310 in the Psychology/Geography Link Building.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,493.00

International fee $6,075.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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