Empower others through this high-level qualification for social work practice. Gain the knowledge and skills you need to improve the quality of life for individuals and the community, and your own standards of practice.

Develop your skills with our purpose-built children's services and interactive laboratory for social work and psychology.

Take your first step towards obtaining your PhD; after successful completion of the first semester you may apply to transfer to the Doctor of Social Work.

• Location:
  Footscray Park
• Other locations:

  (with options at City Flinders and Footscray Park).

• Faculty:
  Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development
• School:
  School of Social Sciences and Psychology
• Study mode:
  Full Time and Part Time
• Delivery mode:
  On campus
• Course code:
  AMSW
• Duration:
  2 years
• This information is for Australian residents.
  Click here to search for courses available to non-residents

How to apply

Graduates of this course find careers in:

• director of health programs and services
• health and family policy
• family services
• policy officer
• school counsellor
• social Worker
• human services practitioner

Learn more about your career options on the Australian government's Career Information and Resources website.

The objectives of these courses are:

• to provide candidates with an educational opportunity to expand social work’s current knowledge and practice base from the experiences and context of the workplace;
• to locate this learning, scholarship and research within the rigours and robustness of a professional MSW and DSW;
• to enhance and add value to the existing social work knowledge and practice base through applied research projects in the workplace;
• to provide candidates with the opportunity to undertake specific research projects in the workplace linking practice and organisational learning with professional development; and
• to raise the research profile and research activities of social work practitioners within the human and community services sector.

• Policy Context of Professional Practice

  Unit code

  AER8510

  Credits

  24

• Community Services (Ideologies in Practice)

  Unit code

  ASH5001

  Credits

  12

• Supervision for Professional Practice in Community Services

  Unit code

  ASH5003

  Credits

  12

• Investigating Professional Practice

  Unit code

  AER8517

  Credits

  24

• Researching Professional Practice

  Unit code

  AER8518

  Credits

  24

• Professional Thesis (Full-Time)

  Unit code

  ASM6000

  Credits

  48

• Professional Thesis (Part Time)

  Unit code

  ASM6001

  Credits

  24

The course can be studied over 2 years full-time or part-time equivalence

• Mature: Professional Qualification (BSW) and five years practice with at least two years as senior practitioner.