SCWK-49000 Field Work and Seminar I

The Field Placement and Field Seminar provide an opportunity for students to integrate generalist practice course content with the field internship 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. Generalist social work practice is multi-method and multi-theoretical. Agency-based case examples and presentations, seminar discussion, role-play and class assignments provide the student an opportunity to gain professional and peer feedback regarding the application of social work knowledge and the development of social work skills. 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. This course further reinforces social work knowledge and values by providing 240 hours of social work in a community agency during the semester.

Credits

3