Advanced Narrative Skills Development (SCWK90060)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25Online
About this subject
Contact information
February
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
Overview
| Availability | February - Online |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
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: 4 March 2025
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
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: 4 March 2025
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
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: 4 March 2025
Dates & times
- February - Online
Principal coordinator David Denborough Mode of delivery Online Contact hours Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 12 February 2024 to 12 July 2024 Last self-enrol date 13 March 2024 Census date 15 March 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 17 May 2024 Assessment period ends 12 July 2024 February contact information
Email: continuing-education@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: + 61 3 8344 0149
Contact hours: https://unimelb.edu.au/professional-development/contact-us
What do these dates mean
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- Your tuition fees, academic transcript and statements.
- And for Commonwealth Supported students, your:
- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
Additional delivery details
This subject includes 115 hours of professional practice.
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Further information
- Texts
- 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.
Please note Single Subject Studies via Community Access Program is not available to student visa holders or applicants
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Last updated: 4 March 2025