塔斯馬尼亞大學(xué)

Now more than ever compassionate and engaged social workers are needed to help improve the life-chances and wellbeing of people and to combat societal inequality.

Contemporary social workers need contemporary skills to respond meaningfully to social problems. Our Bachelor of Social Work with Honours (Professional and Research Specialisations) has been redesigned after direct industry feedback to reflect current and emerging practice trends in the profession.

The newly updated honours-level course with specialisation options has been designed to exceed professional accreditation standards, and will give you key skills in ethical, innovative and collaborative social work practice.

The new curriculum will equip you with advanced knowledge of social work research principles and methods. It also includes 1,000 hours of supervised professional placement, and students are encouraged to take part in additional project and research work with communities and industry.

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.