Human Services

This career-oriented course responds to global social challenges and provides you with contemporary professional skills suitable for a range of practice areas. You will develop skills in casework and case management, social policy processes, group and team practice skills, advanced communication, community work, and understanding families and relationships. You will apply this knowledge to an area of specialisation. Choose from child and family services, youth services, or applied research.

Our staff maintain close professional links with the human services sector, and guest lecturers are leaders in a range of government and community organisations. These collaborative partnerships offer you valuable networking opportunities with industry. In addition, you will complete 550 hours of professional placement which will further develop your assessment and intervention skills, and your own practice framework. It may be possible to complete this placement with an overseas agency.

• Orientation to Social Work and Human Services
• Human Development and Behaviour
• Contemporary Human Rights
• People, Community and Disability
• Communication for Health Professionals 
• Australian Society, Systems and Policies 
• Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Communities
• Understanding Families and Relationships
• Human Services Practice Placement 
• Practice Theories
• Professional Practice Processes and Assessment 
• Casework and Case Management
• Community and Place Based Practice 
• Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Social Work and Human Services 
• Elective chosen from Human Services Introduction to Field of Practice List 
• Working in Human Service Organisations 
• Group and Team Practice Skills
• Advanced Communication for Social Work and Human Services
• Transition to Practice
• Complexity in Social Work and Human Services Practice 

• 1 Year Bachelor degree or other recognised post-secondary studies with pass grades
• Hepatitis B vaccination (highly recommended, but mandatory for some placements), blue card
• Additional $70 (standard three-injection schedule) or $92 (fast-track schedule)
• Formal identity papers, like your passport, national identity card and student visa
• Include the original copy of your IELTS or TOEFL test results.You can provide your IELTS Test Report form number, and international admissions can verify your results online.If you complete the TOEFL test, you can have your results sent directly to QUT. Our institution code is 9778.

• Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship (Academic)
• Equity scholarships scheme