Postgraduate courses - Social Work and Counselling 2025

Enrolling in an approved research methods course is a prerequisite for students to enrol in postgraduate research (a dissertation or thesis). Students must enrol in EDUCSW 700 or/and EDUC 787. 

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Course code Name Offered in Delivery mode Course coordinators
EDUCSW 700 Research Methodologies S1/S2 Onshore Frauke MeyerLiz Beddoe
PROFCOUN 711A Counselling Practicum S1/S2 TBC TBC
PROFCOUN 730A Advanced Counselling Practicum S1/S2 TBC TBC
PROFCOUN 731A Advanced Counselling Practicum (part-time) S1/S2 TBC TBC
PROFCOUN 732A Professional Counselling Capstone Project S1/S2 TBC TBC
PROFSUPV 700 The Practice of Professional Supervision S1/S2 Onshore TBC
PROFSUPV 701 Advanced Approaches in Professional Supervision S1/S2 Onshore/online TBC
PROFSUPV 707 Supervision Folio S1/S2 Onshore/online TBC
PROFSUPV 720 Professional Supervision Capstone Project S1/S2 Onshore/online TBC
SOCCLEAD 708 Enacting Social Change S1 TBC TBC
PROFCOUN7 30B Advanced Counselling   S1/S2 TBC TBC
PROFCOUN 731 Advanced Counselling Practicum S1/S2 TBC TBC
PROFCOUN 731B Advanced Counselling Practicum (part-time) S1/S2 TBC TBC
PROFCOUN 711B Counselling Practicum S1/S2 TBC TBC
PROFCOUN 732B Professional Counselling Capstone Project    S1/S2 TBC TBC
PROFCOUN 706 Cultural Issues in Counselling  S1 TBC
Roberto McLeay
PROFCOUN 708 Professional issues in Counselling  S1 TBC
Sabrina Zoutenbier
SOCCLEAD 706 Innovation, Design, Evaluation S1 Hybrid John Fenaughty
PROFCOUN 703 Special Study S1 TBC TBC
SOCWORK 711 Social Work Interventions for Best Practice S1 TBC
Shirley Ikkala
SOCWORK 712 Social Work in Statutory Settings S1 TBC
Ian Hyslop
SOCWORK 713 The Social Work Discourse S1 TBC
Liz Beddoe
SOCWORK 722 Developing Social Work Professional Identity S1 TBC
Barbara Staniforth
SOCWORK 723 Social Work in the New Zealand Context S1 TBC
John Darroch
PROFCOUN 705A The Counselling Process S1 TBC
Sabrina Zoutenbier
SOCWORK 721A Theories and Skills in Social Work Practice S1 TBC
Kiri Wilder
SOCWORK 734A Professional Social Work Research in Practice S1 TBC
Allen Bartley
PROFCOUN 701A Counselling Laboratory
S1 TBC
Sabrina Zoutenbier
SOCWORK 726 Practice with Communities S1 TBC
John Darroch
EDPROFST 745 Group Counselling S1 Onshore
TBC
SOCCHFAM 734 Issues in Child Welfare and Protection S1 TBC TBC
SOCWORK 780A Research Project   S1 TBC
Allen Bartley
PROFSUPV 710 Stress and Trauma in Health and Human Services S1 TBC TBC
REGDEV 702 Regional Regeneration and Wellbeing S1 Onshore
Stephen May
EDPROFST 743 Family Counselling S2 TBC TBC
EDPROFST 744 Pastoral Care and Counselling in Schools S2 TBC TBC
SOCCLEAD 707 Programme Evaluation   S2 TBC TBC
SOCWORK 715 Supervised Field Practice and Professional Development S2 TBC
Jerry Lo
SOCHLTH 700 Health, Social Justice and Social Work S2 TBC TBC
SOCHLTH 736 Health, Social Justice and Practice S2 TBC TBC
SOCCLEAD 703 Leadership, Ethics, Systems S2 TBC Christa Fouche
SOCWORK 724 Applied Social Work Research Methods S2 TBC
Allen Bartley
SOCWORK 725 Supervised Field Placement I S2 TBC
Jerry Lo
SOCWORK 735 Supervised Field Placement II S2 TBC
Jerry Lo
SOCCHFAM 700 Domestic Violence: Challenges and Responses S2 TBC
TBC
SOCCHFAM 735 Intimate Partner Violence S2 TBC
TBC
SOCHLTH 732 Working with Grief and Loss S2 TBC
Jay Marlowe
PROFCOUN 707 Specialist Counselling Skills and Approaches S2 TBC TBC
PROFSUPV 712 Critical Approaches in Reflective Supervision S2 TBC TBC
SOCWORK 701 Statutory Social Work S2 TBC
Ian Hyslop
PROFCOUN 705B The Counselling Process S2 TBC
Sabrina Zoutenbier
SOCWORK 721B
Theories and Skills in Social Work Practice S2 TBC
Kiri Wilder
SOCWORK 734B Professional Social Work Research in Practice S2 TBC
Allen Bartley
SOCWORK 780B Research Project
S2 TBC
Allen Bartley
PROFCOUN 701B Counselling Laboratory S2 TBC
Sabrina Zoutenbier