Integrative Seminar. 1 -

Catalog description

This path specific Integrative Seminar is a one-credit course designed to allow students to integrate and synthesize their learning from their master's program, provide an opportunity for students to assess and demonstrate their knowledge, values, skills, and cognitive and affective processes at the specialized level, and provide them with tools needed to assist in their transition to the world of work. This course is not intended to provide a great deal of new content but rather to help the student reflect upon and integrate what they have already learned. Working individually and with their peers, students will use a standardized case study to allow them to demonstrate their abilities to engage with, assess, plan, intervene, evaluate, and terminate services with individuals and families in their area of specialized practice. They will also be encouraged to reflect upon and document what they have learned and how they have changed during their master's studies. Finally, they will develop a plan and tools to provide them with a path toward licensure employment, and ongoing sustainability, and professional development. This class is designed to be taken in the last semester of a student's studies. It will meet for a total of 14 hours over the course of the semester. In the on-campus format, this would mean that students would be in class for two hours per week every other week. Faculty from the MSW program will use students' work from this course to assess student outcomes at the specialized level. These findings in the aggregate will be reported on the School's website and to the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and will be used to help assess the School's curriculum. Prereq: SASS 540 or SASS 514 or SASS 529 or SASS 516 or SASS 561 .