Course results for Undergraduate Community services & care Degrees

Develop tools for a career dedicated to social justice, welfare, and advocacy. You’ll work on communication, counselling, and policy theory. Build your experience and contacts through work placements. Electives include mediation and child protection.

This community welfare course prepares you to work with clients and colleagues in human services. Placements add context to your studies with real world experience. Explore youth work and case management. Adopt the values and ethics of the profession.

Discover how creative arts interventions in health care settings can have a positive impact on people’s lives. Learn through case studies, data and neuroscience. Explore your own creativity and ties to community. Advocate creativity.  

Make a difference to the lives of people living with Australia’s second-leading cause of death. Understand changes in the brain that occur with dementia. Learn practical strategies to help care for people experiencing these symptoms.

Study social justice, community issues, institutions (family, work, law) and social issues (gender, race, unemployment, health, welfare, deviance and social control). Apply your learning to community groups, government departments and not-for-profits.

Explore how societies work and how you can make positive change. Through the lens of social justice and human rights, look at policy, diversity, and community development. Specialise in children and family studies, or human services and community work.

Explore the ways people act, think, react and relate to others. Examine cause and affects in behaviour and reveal human health consequences. Examine social policy and counsel communities. Choose to specialise in criminal justice or ageing and disability.

Discover how creative outlets such as music, theatre and dance can improve individual and community wellbeing. Learn how to deliver patient-centred arts programs. Graduate with job-ready skills that apply to numerous health and community settings.

Study social work theories and skills. During professional placements, you’ll get to know how human service organisations operate. Focus your honours year on research and practice. Explore legal and policy considerations.

Broaden your focus beyond the individual to improve the health and wellbeing of populations. Explore current services and policies and think about how to improve them. Use data. Consider social and environmental factors. Graduate work-ready.