- Social Work Practicum and Seminar 1

Catalog description

This is the first course in a two-semester sequence that provides an opportunity for students to integrate undergraduate social work course content and social work practicum experiences as they develop generalist social work skills. Generalist practice skills are characterized as transferable across contexts of practice, agency settings, and populations. Using problem-solving processes, skills are developed to work at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels utilizing the social work processes. It is multi-method and multi-theoretical. Students will complete a 240-hour practicum experience at a social service agency. The seminar provides a forum for sharing of client cases and practice experiences, the development of peer supervision skills, and increased critical thinking and problem-solving capacities. Issues related to social work values and ethics, diversity, social, economic, and environmental justice, human behavior and the social environment, social welfare policy and services, practice, and research are examined within the context of the student’s field practicum.