Specialization Field Practicum II.

Catalog description

This course is a field practice course and requires the student to complete field practice hours in accordance with the program’s accreditation body. The course serves as the second course in the Specialized Field Practicum series. This course offers a supervised field education experience in an approved agency appropriate for clinical social work practice. The course seeks to fosters the integration of classroom knowledge, values, and ethics with practice- based knowledge that seeks to increase practice skills and promotes professional competence. This social work field education experience, sometimes called “field education,” “practicum,” “internship,” and so forth is paramount to the development of social work students. The field education experience is a central form of instruction and learning in which professional socialization occurs, and the field experience builds upon the specialized social work curriculum in the second year of the master’s program. Prerequisite: SOCW 553 C or better.