APG5109 Family violence prevention practicum
Faculty of Arts
APG5109 Family violence prevention practicum is a level 5, 12-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts. It isn't offered in 2026. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 12
- Offered in 2026
- Not offered
- Assessment
- No exam
- 5 tasks
- Workload
- 288 hours
- per semester
The 2027 handbook has no page for APG5109. This is its 2026 entry, the latest one.
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Requisites
Before APG5109
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After APG5109
No unit lists APG5109 as a prerequisite in the 2026 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prerequisite: Must be enrolled in Graduate Diploma in Family Violence Prevention and must have completed 24 credit points of this program prior to taking this unit.
Overview
In the Family Violence Prevention Practicum, you will select an issue or topic and examine the response of current research, policy, practice and programs to produce a research paper. As one of the final units in the Graduate Diploma of Family Violence Prevention, the Practicum gives you the opportunity to draw on the knowledge and experience gained from previous units and focus on one key issue or topic of interest.
Evidence-informed policy and practice is crucial in the specialist family violence sector. The Practicum is designed to develop your understanding of the importance of research and evidence in this space. In this unit you will develop your critical thinking skills, enhance your ability to make evidence-based arguments, and build your professional knowledge of family violence prevention. Over the course of the semester, you will undertake a series of staged activities related to your chosen topic, including undertaking in-depth research and analysis to deliver a final research paper.
You will be supervised regularly by the Unit Coordinator throughout the semester.
Offerings in 2026
The 2026 handbook lists no offerings for APG5109.
Assessment
- Exercise/sExercise5%
- Annotated bibliographyWritten20%
- Case studyWritten30%
- ReflectionWritten5%
- Research projectWritten40%
Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
analyse and explain the research, policies and practices within organisations designed to respond to and prevent family violence;
- 2
critically evaluate and discuss relevant family violence literature and a range of theories, critical debates and methodological approaches related to patterns of family violence;
- 3
devise, prepare and complete a research project, and communicate your findings in both oral and written formats;
- 4
apply professional knowledges about family violence prevention across research, policy and practice settings;
- 5
reflect on your their own experience to identify strategies and policies to support family violence prevention in a range of workplace, policy and clinical settings;
- 6
construct a culturally sensitive approach to the recognition and management of different needs and objectives in effective family violence prevention;
- 7
critically evaluate the operational outcomes of policies and programs to support family violence prevention.
Workload and teaching
- Lectures1 hours
- Workshops3 hours
- Teaching approachResearch activities
- Teaching approachActive learning
- Teaching approachProblem-based learning
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
This unit allows you to develop your research skills by engaging in structured inquiry using a systematic approach and discipline-specific methodologies.
This unit engages you in actively applying your knowledge, skills and attributes in interactive, collaborative and reflective activities.
This unit includes problem-based learning approaches, where you engage in research, integrate theory and practice and apply knowledge and skills to develop viable solutions in response to a problem or set of problems.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Associate Professor Bridget Harris
- Unit Coordinators
- Associate Professor Bridget Harris
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for APG5109?
APG5109 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is APG5109 offered?
APG5109 has no offerings listed in the 2026 handbook.
How much work is APG5109?
The handbook expects about 288 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does APG5109 have an exam?
No. APG5109 has 5 assessment tasks and no exam.