Specialized Practice Practicum I

Catalog description

Specialized Practice Practicum I and II are designed to be taken by students during their final year of the master’s program and who have already completed their generalist practicum. Students enrolled in Specialized Practice Practicum I and II will also be enrolled in Specialized Practice Reflective Seminar I and II concurrently. Students will have the opportunity to deepen their knowledge and experience in their chosen area of specialized practice through opportunities to apply, explore, and extend their classroom- based knowledge of social work theory, skills, values, cognitive and affective processes, and ethics to a deeper level of experience in practicum. Students will have the opportunity to develop specialized practice competencies while also learning about the realities and demands of professional practice. Throughout their second practicum, they will also be given the opportunity to develop their professional identity as practitioners in a specialized area of social work.