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Narrative Practice & Research Synthesis (SCWK90061)
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Contact information
Year Long (Extended)
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Overview
Availability | Year Long (Extended) - Online |
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In this subject, students are challenged to innovate their own forms of narrative practice. Teaching focuses on some of the different methods of innovating that have contributed to new forms of narrative practice (co-research, partnerships, cross-cultural invention, folk cultural innovation, synthesis of practice with readings from outside the field, responding to challenges in relation to politics of experience, translations across languages). This involves revisiting some of the social and intellectual histories of narrative practice and drawing on recent international innovations as case studies of innovation. Drawing on these histories and practices of innovation, in the second half of the subject as the capstone experience, students are then required to undertake an original piece of practice research, with findings presented in a standard required for publication.
Intended learning outcomes
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- Analyse and distinguish the ways in which narrative practices have been originated in the context of translating them into one’s own context.
- Appraise the ethics of one’s own practice by critiquing the operations of power and privilege in one’s relationships with those with whom one works (‘clients’); and demonstrate practices of accountability to respond to these operations of power and privilege.
- Demonstrate and discuss ‘double-story development’ and the rich description of preferred storylines in one’s own practice.
- Synthesise one's own practice with the histories and theories of narrative therapy.
- Produce an original piece of practice scholarship that is to be of a standard required for publication.
- Design teaching materials and approach, and teach others about the narrative practices they have engaged with.
- Appraise one’s own use of narrative practices and one’s own teaching about these.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission into the MC-NTCW Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work
This subject is not available for students admitted in any other courses.
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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5 x written reflections
| Due mid and end of semester 1 | 25% |
One oral presentation (equivalent to 4,000 words)
| Due beginning of semester 2 | 15% |
Essay
| End of semester 2 | 50% |
One poster presentation
| Due end of semester 2 | 10% |
Hurdle requirement: Client contact record | Due end of semester 2 | N/A |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Year Long (Extended) - Online
Principal coordinator David Denborough Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Online participation component 60 Supervision for the development of the practice research component 20 Total time commitment 680 hours Teaching period 13 February 2023 to 1 December 2023 Last self-enrol date 24 February 2023 Census date 31 May 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 22 September 2023 Assessment period ends 1 December 2023 Year Long (Extended) contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Time commitment details
680 hours
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Additional delivery details
This subject includes 220 hours of professional practice.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
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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: 31 January 2024