Bachelor of Social Work

If you're interested in human rights, social justice, and changing lives for the better, then you should consider social work. As a social worker you will improve individual and community wellbeing by addressing challenges such as inequality, discrimination, violence and other types of harassment. ACU's Bachelor of Social Work is an AASW-accredited qualification and an entry qualification into the social work profession, having been determined to meet the Australian Social Work Education and Accreditation Standards; all graduates of the course are eligible for membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers. An embedded honours program is available from third year for high-achieving students. Field education placement is a core element of your development of a professional identity, providing an opportunity to observe, question and model social work behaviour, to translate social work theory into practice, and to apply knowledge drawn from other subjects. In the third and fourth years of the degree you complete 1,000 hours of supervised professional experience field placements in social work and human service settings across a range of organisations, supervised by a social work practitioner, and you also complete the required hours of community engagement project work in second year. To qualify for the pass degree you complete 320 credit points: 50 credit points of specified foundation units, 20 credit points of University Core Curriculum units, 150 credit points of social work units including a unit incorporating community engagement, 40 credit points of social work skills stream units and 60 credit points of practice education units. The course is taught at ACU's Canberra and Strathfield campuses.