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Advanced Narrative Skills Development (SCWK90060)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25Off Campus
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
February
Melbourne School of Professional and Continuing Education
Further Information: https://study.unimelb.edu.au/find/courses/graduate/master-of-narrative-therapy-and-community-work/
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
Availability | February - Off Campus |
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In this subject, students acquire skills in engaging with ten key practice maps of narrative therapy (externalising, re-authoring, re-membering, definitional ceremony, documentation, absent but implicit, failure conversations map, responding to trauma, engagement with folk cultural metaphors [tree of life/team of life/kite of life], enabling contribution/social action). They also develop skills in analysing and evaluating the effects of their use of these maps of practice and in proposing alternative questions/lines of enquiry in therapeutic and/or collective practice.
Intended learning outcomes
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- Employ narrative conversational skills in relation to key practice maps in skills based exercises and in one’s own local context.
- Develop reflexive position in relation to one’s own practice to enable micro-analysis and questioning of one’s own use of narrative practices and to distinguish and differentiate where one’s own practice is located on various maps of narrative practice.
- Compare and evaluate the questions one used in practice and propose alternative / supplementary questions and/or lines of enquiry to those currently used.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted in MC-NTCW. This subject is not available for students admitted in any other courses.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
Introductory knowledge gained from prior narrative therapy study is recommended background knowledge.
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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A recorded interview with a 1,000 word written reflection
| Mid semester | 30% |
A recorded interview with a 1,000 word written reflection
| End of semester | 30% |
6 x written reflections, due fortnightly
| Throughout the teaching period | 40% |
Client contact record
| End of semester | N/A |
Additional details
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- February - Off Campus
Principal coordinator David Denborough Mode of delivery Off Campus Contact hours Face to face teaching component 70 hours Online participation component 20 hours Supervision component 4 hours Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 17 February 2020 to 17 July 2020 Last self-enrol date 18 March 2020 Census date 18 March 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 May 2020 Assessment period ends 17 July 2020 February contact information
Melbourne School of Professional and Continuing Education
Further Information: https://study.unimelb.edu.au/find/courses/graduate/master-of-narrative-therapy-and-community-work/
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149Monday to Friday 8am to 9pm AEST/AEDT. Weekends and University of Melbourne observed Public Holidays 10am to 5pm AEST/AEDT.
Additional delivery details
This subject includes 115 hours of professional practice.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
All study materials will be provided.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work - Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Last updated: 3 November 2022