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On-Campus, Online (Blended). International students may study up to one-third of the subjects in a course online. Domestic online students study through a blended model that combines online learning with on-campus classes, as well as 6 on-campus intensives (5 days each, 30 days total) scheduled across the degree.
Full Time / Part Time / On-Campus / Online (Blended) · 3 hours per subject for lectures and tutorials, plus approximately 10 hours per week per subject for self-directed study. Full-time load is 48 credit points per year; part-time is typically 18 credit points per year.
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Course Overview
Where You Can Study
Adelaide
Level 3, 127 Rundle Mall, Adelaide, SA 5000
Eligibility
Career & Study Pathways
Quality & Recognition
Academic Regulator
TEQSA
Professional Body
Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)
Accreditation Status
AccreditedSkills Assessor
AASW
Course Content
Social Work Purpose, Values and Principles
Introduces students to the purpose, values, and principles for social work practice in Australia, including social work history, practice domains, fields of employment, diversity, critical and intersectional theoretical perspectives, and professional behaviour.
Social Work, Community Practice, and First Nation Peoples
Provides understanding of the cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts shaping the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and introduces community work and social action methods. Includes mandatory in-person attendance.
Engagement, Assessment and Relationship-Building Skills
Provides knowledge and practice experience for conducting initial social work assessment interviews, foundational interpersonal helping skills, engagement, assessment, and reflective processes through simulation activities. Includes mandatory in-person attendance.
Social Work and Health Care
Develops skills for social work roles in multidisciplinary health settings, including documentation, case notes, role-play, supervision, and multidisciplinary team meetings. Includes mandatory in-person attendance. Pre-Requisite: SWK603.
Theories and Ethics in Social Work Practice
Introduces foundational theories and ethics used in social work practice, examining the relationship between social work values and key theories, and promoting critical analysis and reflection.
Field Practicum 1
First social work field practicum providing placement in a social work organisational setting. Students apply and integrate social work values, ethics, knowledge, and skills in supervised practice. Assessed as ungraded Pass or Fail. Pre-Requisites: SWK601, SWK602, SWK603, SWK604, SWK605.
Policy and Law for Social Work Practice
Introduces legal and policy contexts of social work in Australia, including legislative frameworks, courts and tribunals, social policies, record keeping, confidentiality, mandatory reporting, and policy advocacy.
Trauma and Mental Health
Explores experiences of individuals utilising mental health services, trauma-informed care, the DSM-5-TR, impacts of trauma, suicidality, and safety planning. Includes mandatory in-person attendance. Pre-Requisite: SWK603.
Working with Groups, Teams and Organisations
Explores theory, practice, and ethics of social work with groups, including planning, facilitating and leading groups and teams, organisational analysis, and anti-oppressive practice. Includes mandatory in-person attendance. Pre-Requisite: SWK606.
Decision-Making and Intervention Planning with Children and Families
Builds competence in ethical, reflective practice with children and families, covering communication, risk assessment, intervention planning, family support, child safeguarding, and domestic and family violence. Includes mandatory in-person attendance. Pre-Requisites: SWK603, SWK606.
Research Evidence for Social Work Practice
Focuses on the role of research and evidence in quality social work practice. Students develop skills to critically assess research evidence, interpret findings, design a social research project, and identify implications for anti-oppressive social work practice.
Common Questions
Yes, this is an AASW-accredited qualification. It is an entry qualification into the social work profession and has been determined to meet the Australian Social Work Education and Accreditation Standards. The program currently holds conditional provisional accreditation, and graduates are eligible for membership with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW).
The course includes two 500-hour field placements, undertaken in both the first and second year of study. During placement, each student is allocated an appropriately qualified Social Work Field Educator who provides professional supervision throughout. Learning is assessed through a Learning Agreement, Mid-Placement Review, and End-Placement Review, and is assessed as an ungraded Pass or Fail.
Domestic students who wish to study primarily online will do so through a blended model that combines online learning with on-campus classes, as well as 6 on-campus intensives scheduled across the degree. Each intensive runs for 5 days (30 days total), and attendance is a required part of the program. International students may study up to one-third of the subjects in a course online.
The indicative course fee for domestic students is $47,200 for the full 2-year full-time course. The course is FEE-HELP approved for eligible domestic applicants. Ikon also offers financial scholarships to new domestic students commencing a postgraduate course in calendar year 2026.
For each subject, students should allocate 3 hours for lectures and tutorials, plus an additional 10 hours per week per subject for self-directed study to complete prescribed readings, practice skills, and complete assessments. Full-time students typically complete 48 credit points per year across 3 trimesters, with 11 weeks of teaching followed by an assessment week in each trimester.
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