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The Contemporary Disability Landscape

Postgraduate | LTU-DIS502 | 2019

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Better understand the aims of disability policies and services by considering the position of people with disability in society. Explore the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and the National Disability Strategy (NDS). 

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
Part of a degree
Duration
13 weeks

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The Contemporary Disability Landscape

About this subject

  • Note: This subject is a part of La Trobe University's Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma in Disability Practice, which will become available for application in Semester 2. Students who complete this subject in Semester 1 will be able to apply for credit towards these programs.

    Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

    • Analyse the interaction between the concepts of impairment and disability;
    • Critically appraise perspectives on the citizenship of people with disability in society with an earlier historic period.
    • Interpret and transmit knowledge about the theoretical models of disability embedded in current disability policies;
    • Evaluate the changes that the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and the National Disability Strategy (NDS) brings to mainstream service systems;
    • Critically reflect on different models of disability from different perspectives and their influence on individual practice, policy and programs.
    • Critique the extent to which services are responsive to people with disabilities and reflect the principles that underpin them.

Entry requirements

To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.

Others

In order to enrol in this subject, students are required to apply to OUA's Postgraduate Single Subjects program (OUA-PSU-GCE).

https://www.open.edu.au/degrees/postgraduate-single-subjects-oua-oua-psu-gce?year=2019

Note: Students wishing to apply for either the Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma in Disability Practice based on the completion of postgraduate single subjects should familiarise themselves with La Trobe's advanced standing policy. A maximum of two (2) or four (4) subjects may be credited to the Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma programs, respectively.

https://www.latrobe.edu.au/students/getting-started/new-students/advanced-standing

Additional requirements

  • Other requirements -

    1 x 15 hoursunscheduled online class per week on any day including weekend during the day from week 10-22 and delivered via online

    1 x 10 hours unscheduled online class per week from week 31 to week 43
    3 x 1 hour scheduled online class every three weeks, from week 31 to week 43

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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