Qualification Overview
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Qualification Title | Bachelor of Social Work | |
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Qualification Type | Bachelor Degree | |
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Level | 7 | |
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Credits | 480 | |
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Strategic Purpose Statement |
The aim of this programme is to prepare social work professionals who can engage in current and future issues of social justice in changing technological, social, cultural, environmental and political contexts and meet the educational requirements for registration in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Graduate profile |
Graduates of this programme will be able to:
1. Apply knowledge of bi-culturalism to social work practice. 2. Apply knowledge of different cultural contexts to cross-cultural social work practice. 3. Be actively engaged in professional, social, political and sustainability issues at local and/or global levels. 4. Articulate and apply a beginning framework for practice including the relevant knowledge, skills and values, and work within the ethical codes of the social work profession including anti-oppressive theory. 5. Apply anti-oppressive social values, knowledge and skills to complex individual/personal and social situations and intervene to stimulate personal and social change. 6. Apply critical research to practice, the workplace and on-going learning. 7. Be flexible, responsive, resilient, collaborative and critically reflective social work practitioners. 8. Articulate the knowledge of the origins, purpose and development of Aotearoa New Zealand social work within a global context. 9. Be critically reflective in response to feedback and actively engaged in professional supervision and continuing professional development. |
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Education pathways |
On completion of this programme you can advance your studies with a Master in Social Work at a variety of New Zealand universities.
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Employment pathways | ||
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Entry Requirements |
NCEA Level 3 (60 credits at level 3 and 20 credits at level 2 or higher) which must include 14 credits at Level 3 in each of (English or an approved literacy subject and two other subjects from the list of approved subjects); and Literacy (10 credits at Level 2 or above made up of 5 credits in reading and 5 credits in writing); and Numeracy (10 credits at Level 1 or above).
IELTS 6.5 Academic (no lower than 6.5 in any subtest), or any other ELT test approved by the Social Workers Registration Board. Additional Requirements apply (Police vetting, Referee reports, Personal statement) |
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Developed By | Te Pukenga - New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology | |
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Quality Assured By | New Zealand Qualifications Authority | |
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Number | CH3947 | |
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Status | Discontinued | |
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Created | 2006-04-04 13:57:10.0 | |
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Next Review | 2020-12-31 00:00:00.0 | |
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Discontinued | 2020-01-13 00:00:00.0 |
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