Bachelor of Community Welfare

Offered by Southern Cross University

The Bachelor of Community Welfare provides you with the theoretical and practical foundations for work in the community welfare and human services sectors. You will gain skills in case management, community development, counselling, social research, advocacy and organisational practice.

Throughout the course, particular emphasis is placed on social justice, human rights and collaboration as the basis for contemporary community welfare practice. This course harnesses your empathy and enhances your communication skills with a view to delivering great outcomes across diverse areas of community welfare practice.

Graduates of this course will have opportunities to use their transferable skills in community welfare and human services careers that might include government and non-government positions in fields such as child protection, disability, homelessness and housing, youth work, aged care, alcohol and other drugs, community work, mental health, and domestic violence.

Field Placement

This course includes 400 hours of supervised on-the-job training.