This course aims to give students a critical appreciation of the different ways 'youth' is understood in academic, policy and popular contexts, which is of fundamental importance if policy and practice responses and choices are to be understood.

On successful completion of this unit students will be expected to demonstrate:

1. a capacity to critically analyse the various theoretical and popular approaches/ constructions around "youth" and "adolescence";
2. a broad working knowledge of contemporary policies, and service delivery systems and programs, directed at young people in Australia;
3. an awareness of how diversity and marginalisation impact on various young people;
4. an understanding of the dominant and emerging human service practice approaches with young people.

Topics are likely to include:
* Unit introduction
* Popular representations of young people
* Theories of youth and adolescence
* Cultural perspectives on 'youth'
* Marginalisation and diversity (particularly issues associated with class, gender, geographic location, sexual identity, race, ethnicity, disability)
* Contemporary policy trends: continuity and discontinuity
* Young people and family: Trends, policies and services
* Young people and juvenile justice: Trends, policies and services
* Young people and secondary education: Trends, policies and services
* Young people and the labour market: Trends, policies and services
* Young people and accommodation and housing: Trends, policies and services
* Young people and health: Trends, policies and services
* Dominant and emerging practice approaches in work with young people.

Replacing HUMA3408 Young People and the State.

Students who have completed HUMA3408 are not eligible to enrol in this course.

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SPSW1401

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Seminar: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term