Social Work Practice III: Organizations and Communities

Catalog description

This course introduces students to knowledge and skills required for effective, competent and ethical generalist social work practice with organizations and communities. This includes an introduction to organizational development and community practice. Strategies for community and organizational transformation are explored from an ecological strengths based approach. This course is considered the ‘capstone’ course in the BSW curriculum and is taken concurrently with Generalist Field Education II. Students are expected to integrate professional application of all nine social work competencies (CSWE, 2015) and seven core helping functions in the development, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of their Capstone Research Project.