Internship Seminar I

Catalog description

Field education in social work is consistent with the mission goals and objectives of the BYU-Idaho social work program. The student will be placed in social service/social work agencies and get actual experience in social work. The goal is to integrate academic knowledge with actual experience (empirical and practice based knowledge). This experience will help the student to reinforce identification with the purposes, values and ethics of the social work profession, promote professional competence, and students will be evaluated on the basis of consistency with program objectives. This is the capstone experience in baccalaureate social work education, students will work 500 hours in their field placements. Thus, only those students who are in their last year of baccalaureate social work education and who have completed the requisite course work and who are deemed prepared by the social work field coordinator shall be allowed to take SW 397, 398, and SW 497 & 498. The first and second field internships/practicums at BYU-Idaho are integral parts of our generalist's social work education.