Building Professional Social Work Skills. 3 credits

Catalog description

Learn requisite social work concepts, ethics, and professional skills for serving clients and client systems within the community. In turn, students will have the opportunity to apply this knowledge during a required 40-hour service-learning project within a community-based social service agency. This experience provides students the opportunity to become familiar with the planned change process, a professional sense of self, values, ethics, and understand how to work in a social work setting. Students will practice using cultural humility, empathy, reflection, and interpersonal skills while interacting within the agency. Offered by Social Work . Limited to three attempts.