基督遗教学院

The Bachelor of Human Services is a three-year course, available both full time and part time.

The Bachelor of Human Services is designed to provide students with broad and coherent knowledge and skills for professional work and future learning in human service discipline e Bachelor of Human Services looks to engage meaningfully and positively with the important questions of human experience, to the development of the individual, to the improvement of society and to the development of skills and understandings in the area of people helping. Specifically, the course has emphases in theoretical understanding of, and practical skills working with, diverse groups of human beings and the issues they face in modern society, and of the roles and skills required of those working in contemporary human service contexts.

The Bachelor of Human Services comprises a program of core and elective units. The first year of the course (full time equivalent) comprises a program of core units that introduces students to concepts regarding Christian worldview, the skills and processes required for academic and professional communication within a higher education context, and foundational knowledge and understanding associated with human services. The second and third years of the course (full time equivalent) comprise further core units and the opportunity for students to undertake a specialisation within a particular discipline area. The areas of specialisation are:

• Disability and aged care
• Family support and child protection
• Human behaviour
• Youth Work

Within their particular discipline area students undertake either a practicum or coursework stream.

CAREER OUTCOMES

Students will be able to work generally as caseworkers, group facilitators, group workers, planning officers, support workers or carers. Depending on specialisation they may also work in chaplaincy; community aid and development; community mental health; disability and aged care; family support and child protection; human behaviour; and youth work.

COURSE ACCREDITATIONS

• accredited by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) and appears in the list of accredited CHC courses on the National Register of Higher Education Providers.
• approved for offering to overseas students and appears on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS).
• Students completing the practicum stream can gain membership with the Australian Community Workers Association (ACWA)
• approved for FEE-HELP, Youth Allowance/Abstudy and Austudy (personal eligibility requirements apply).