THEO690 to YSED610

THEO690 Liturgical Prayer

10 cp
Prerequisites THEO662 Foundations in Liturgy
Teaching Organisation Textual analysis, observation-participation-critique of rites, video. 42 focused learning-hours for 12 weeks or equivalent.

This unit complements other units that study the Church’s major sacramental rites. It introduces students to other liturgical rites and practices of liturgical prayer, non-liturgical prayer, and sacramentals, and to the liturgical year.

THEO691 The Rites of Initiation

10 cp
Prerequisites THEO662 Foundations in Liturgy
Teaching Organisation Textual analysis, observation-participation-critique of rites, video. 42 focussed learning-hours for 12 weeks or equivalent.

This unit develops foundational knowledge and understanding of the central sacramental rites of the Church. It explores the principal developments and questions surrounding the theological-liturgical understanding and practice of initiation since Vatican II.

THEO692 Liturgical Catechesis

Liturgical catechesis seeks to open up the fullness of the symbolic-ritual actions of the Church’s prayer. The unit explores the content and process by which the nexus between life, liturgical experience, and mission is expressed in and shaped by the rites. The unit draws together material developed in other units.

THEO693 Liturgical Music

10 cp
Prerequisites THEO662 Foundations in Liturgy
Teaching Organisation 42 focussed learning-hours over 12 weeks or equivalent.

This unit seeks to develop essential theological and liturgical insights into the integral place of music in the Vatican II rites and skills for making effective pastoral application.

THEO694 Biblical Studies

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.

This unit is designed to introduce students to an informed critical reading of the biblical text as sacred scripture. Its aim is to enable students to broaden and deepen their engagement with the Bible as sacred scripture in a spirit of open and critical inquiry by drawing on a wide range of exegetical tools of interpretation.

THEO695 Foundations of Christian Faith

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.

This unit will introduce students to the study of Catholic theology. It explores the foundational perspectives of the Christian tradition in relation to God, Jesus, Church and sacraments and seeks to encourage students to critically reflect on religious faith as practiced in a diverse and pluralistic world.

THEO697 Spirituality, Ministry and Practice 3

10 cp
Prerequisites THEO 685 Spirituality and Ministry in the Christian Tradition 1, THEO 686 Spirituality and Ministry in the Christian Tradition 2, THEO 687 Spirituality Ministry and Practice 1, THEO 688 Spirituality Ministry and Practice 2
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online. This unit will include practical experience in spiritual direction, verbatims, individual and group supervision, assigned readings.

This unit is an advanced practicum that enables students to gain further expertise in the art of spiritual direction. Students will be supervised while directing four students. There will be a concentration on advanced issues and dynamics in the spiritual direction relationship, reflection on experience and self-knowledge. Personal supervision with an experienced spiritual director and group supervision of forty hours will be central to the learning process.

THEO698 Spirituality, Ministry and Practice 4

This unit complements the advanced practicum unit THEO 697. It further enables students to gain expertise in the art of spiritual direction. Students will be supervised while directing four students. There will be a concentration on advanced issues and dynamics in the spiritual direction relationship, reflection on experience and self-knowledge. Personal supervision with an experienced spiritual director and group supervision equivalent to forty hours will be central to the learning process.

YSED100 History of Young People

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Students will use a combination of lectures, workshops and seminars to complete the major objectives of the unit. Duration: 3 hours per week.

This unit provides students with an historical framework from which to understand the development of the concept of youth in the Australian context against the background of its development in the Western world. It provides a foundation for understanding the major social-historical forces and institutions impacting on and defining the lives of young people and the historical background that influences our thinking about young people and their issues today. Particular attention will be given to the constitution of the categories of "childhood", "adolescence", "youth" and "delinquency". There will also be a focus on the history and development of youth work as a profession. Insight will be provided into the lived experiences of young people in various historical contexts, and also how observers within those environments portrayed them. The unit will assist students to develop a critical capacity for historical enquiry.

YSED101 Ethical Principles and Practice of Youth Work

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation A variety of formats will be used throughout the course of this unit, including lectures, workshops, seminars, case studies, student presentations and a guest speaker series. Duration: 3 hours per week.

Ethical principles in youth work are given particular attention in this unit. It seeks to identify best practice principles and agencies that apply these principles in the field. The unit also focuses on key issues for young people eg substance use; poverty; crime; health, homelessness and abuse, and identifies the primary approaches used by youth workers in those sectors to support young people.

This unit examines the contemporary principles and practices of the youth work sector, making concrete links between theory and work in the field. It explores a variety of theories, approaches, models, frameworks and interventions used by the sector in their work with young people, in particular, the community development model.

YSED102 Practicum 1: Mapping Agencies

10 cp
Prerequisites YSED100 History of Young People
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks. A variety of formats will be used including workshops, and seminars, team-work based experiential learning methods, incursion and excursions.

This unit will provide students with an opportunity to develop an understanding of the Youth Work sector. Students will visit a range of settings in which youth agencies are placed and gain an understanding of the range of collaborative practices that characterise contemporary youth work eg youth workers in school settings; youth workers in the ethnic sector; youth workers in the drug and alcohol sector. Students will be encouraged to develop a career plan which will inform possible options for future practicum placements, volunteer experience and future work. This career plan will also inform the choices selected in broader course work and the development of networks, skills and tools relevant to the sector. This unit will not have a placement component but will offer a comprehensive guest speaker and visiting program. Students will be challenged to consider their own values, and engage in learning principles and experiential learning techniques to develop self- directed learning and autonomous work practices.

YSED200 Researching Young People

10 cp
Prerequisites YSED100 History of Young People and YSED101 Principles and Practice of Youth Work
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent. Students will use a combination of library literature searches, lectures, workshops, seminars and guest speakers to complete the major objectives of the unit.

This unit outlines the importance of youth research and how it shapes our knowledge about young people. It traces the ways a variety of academic disciplines have set about researching young people and considers the ways such research and theoretical knowledge shapes various styles of youth work practice and programs. Attention is given to the various research methods and particular attention is paid to ethics in research. It will look at all stages of the research process and put these skills into practice through short research projects. The unit will identify key research issues for the youth work sector and consider some of the dilemmas that researchers face.

YSED201 Working in Youth Organisations

In this unit students will examine the impact of organisational theory, practice, and context on youth work. The unit includes: an historical overview of organisational theory, assessing linkages between ideology, forms of organisational structure and the culture and practice of human services agencies. New directions in privatisation and strategic management will be explored, together with governmental policy, programs and legislative requirements of corporate citizenship in the youth sector.

YSED202 Practicum 2: Evaluation Skills

10 cp
Prerequisites YSED102 Practicum 1: Mapping Agencies
Teaching Organisation A variety of formats will be used throughout the placement including workshops, seminars, incursions and excursions in a class setting and on placement, one-to-one supervision sessions. The placement should focus on key issues facing the young clients of the chosen organisation.

The practicum will provide students with an opportunity undertake their first placement in a youth work agency context. (‘Agency’ is defined very broadly here to cover a wide range of youth work settings). The practicum will allow students to examine the daily practices of an agency in relations to its stated goals. Students will consider their own values and beliefs through purposeful, reasoned and goal-directed critical thinking, In consultation with field educators students will be expected to apply adult learning principles and experiential learning techniques to develop self-directed learning and autonomous work practices, with regard to their strategic career plan (developed in practicum one).

This unit will seek to demonstrate the need for students to actively incorporate a professional philosophy based on integrity, and to ensure that their relationships with young people are non-exploitative.

YSED300 Social Action

10 cp
Prerequisites YSED100 History of Young People and YSED101 Principles and Practice of Youth Work
Teaching Organisation A variety of formats will be used throughout the course of the unit including workshops and seminars, one-to-one supervision sessions, group work and experiential learning techniques. Duration: 3 hours per week.

This unit will examine theories of social organisation and strategies of social change. It provides an historical overview of social movements and campaigns which have impacted on young people and the development of youth services. The unit will provide an insight into the democratic processes and structure of our political system. The focus will be on developing competencies in assessing and responding to the needs of young people, further developing advocacy skills, facilitating community participation in social change, and the strategic development, coordination and delivery of relevant social service responses.

YSED301 Youth Policy

10 cp
Prerequisites YSED100 History of Young People and YSED101 Principles and Practice of Youth Work and one youth studies unit at 200-level
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for 12 weeks or equivalent of library literature searches and lectures, workshops and seminars.

This unit will help students to develop a critical and practical appreciation of how policy is made, gaining basic analytic, research and policy development skills and a capacity to intervene in policy debates and processes impinging on young people. The unit will also assist students to develop the skills to engage young people in policy processes which are of significance to them, which should include the ability to help young people understand some of the key policy institutions and policy frameworks which impact on their lives.

YSED302 Practicum 3: Interface with Youth

10 cp
Prerequisites YSED202 Practicum 2: Evaluation Skills
Teaching Organisation A variety of formats will be used throughout the course of the placement including workshops, seminars, incursions and excursions conducted in the 36 hours of classes during semester. Students are also required to undertake 50 days of placement experience (approx 380hrs) in a supervised, field-based youth work organisation.

This unit will provide students with an opportunity to transfer knowledge and skills developed in the university to the agency context. Students will be expected to work with the youth work agency to identify a project of value to the agency and with beneficial learning and skill development opportunities for the student. Students will be challenged to consider their own values and beliefs through purposeful, reasoned and goal directed critical thinking, and in consultation with field educators apply adult learning principles and experiential learning techniques to develop self-directed learning and autonomous work practices.

Individualised field education plans will be negotiated between the student, agency and university. Students will revisit their career plan and consider exit options into their chosen field of work. Students will continue developing their resources in preparation for entrance into the field.

YSED600 Principles of Effective Youth Work

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Students will participate in the equivalent of 24 hours class contact in a semester in a range of face-to-face and flexible-delivery approaches.

This unit introduces students to the variety of fields, organisations and principles of youth work, teaching and more broadly human services. Particular attention is given to the practical considerations of making positive change. It, also sets out to establish the possible rationales for interventions into young peoples lives, to examine the legitimations typically deployed and the validity of any/or all of those rationales. This unit involves a mapping exercise in which students establish a framework for identifying different types of practice when working with young people, the sites in which such work takes place and some of the main contemporary issues facing workers. It will develop a framework that assists students to begin to develop principles for effective practice. The relationship between the capacity to critically reflect on practice issues, to develop sustainable and effective forms of practice and relate both capacities to ethically responsible practice is central to this unit.

YSED601 Critical Issues, Young People and Schooling

This unit explores the ways academic disciplines such as psychology, sociology, education, legal/law studies, welfare and health/medicine have researched and come to conceptualise young people. In this unit consideration is given to the ways that research and theoretical knowledge produce and shape various styles of practice and programs that target young people, their families and communities. Consideration is given to the various ways welfare work, youth work, classroom teaching, nursing, counselling services and police work structure relations between workers and young people. The idea of the ‘school as a community’ and the implications of this approach for working with young people is also examined.

YSED602 Young People at Risk

In this unit consideration is given to young people in two ways: what do we know about the experience of young people and how have youth as vulnerable and as a threat been represented. particular attention is given to the constitution of the categories of ‘adolescence’, ‘delinquent’, ‘maladjusted youth’, ‘deviant youth’, ‘youth at risk’, drawing on the work of people such as Burt, Homel, Catalono, Dryfoos, Rutter as well as critics like Kelly and Rose. Insights will also be provided regarding actual risks associated with being young in various contexts, and how those risks are experienced and portrayed within those context environments. This unit will include material on young people at risks of abuse, neglect, substance abuse, homelessness, as well as young people who present as risks to others in terms of various ‘anti-social’ activities such as violence and criminality.

YSED604 Youth Cultures

This unit offers sociological and anthropological insights into youth cultures. The unit explores historical and the lived experiences of collective youth action. It considers both legitimate youth cultures (eg scouts, schools) and those with a deviant status. Questions are asked about the distinctive features of each. The role of the media and professionals are evaluated in respect to various state and institutional responses to collective youth action. Similarly the role of the economy, and particularly the fashion and music industries, is analysed in respect to young people’s collective identities and action.

YSED607 Justice and Young People

The purpose of this unit is to introduce students to the youth justice system. Theories of juvenile delinquency have existed for more than 50 years and the separate justice system for young people originated in the late 1890s in the United States of America. The outcomes of separate laws and justice systems will be examined. Theories of causation and treatment models will be explored. The ‘welfare’ model and the ‘criminal justice ‘model will be discussed. The development of case management models of intervention will be critically analysed. Indigenous issues in the juvenile justice system will be carefully examined.

YSED610 Working with Children and Young People

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Students will participate in the equivalent of 24 hours class time in a semester in a range of face-to-face and flexible-delivery approaches.

The aim of this unit is to introduce students to specialised knowledge and skills for working with children and young people in a range of human services contexts. The unit will give students an understanding of theoretical perspectives about child development, attachment and behaviour with particular emphasis on how different life experiences and events such as life transitions, loss and grief, trauma and abuse impact on children and young people. Students will be encouraged to consider some of the dilemmas that may arise when working with children and young people with an emphasis on how workers can facilitate the participation of children and young people in service delivery.

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