Graduate Catalog

SW 500 Professional Foundations: Educ Tmr Prct

This course will employ community agency-based case studies as vehicles to explore connectionsbetween foundation practice behaviors and the practice behaviors characteristic of the Advanced Concentration curriculum of the MSW Program. Additionally, the course itself will be a learningexperience as class sessions will be conducted as a task-centered learning group with the discussions, presentations, and projects serving as material for reflection and demonstration of group process. Course-pack materials, journal articles, media content, instructor/student presentations, team interactions, and class projects will be utilized to illuminate how ethics, a policy advocacy role, and foundation practice skills inform the assessment, engagement and evaluation practice behaviors characteristic of the Advanced Concentration curriculum of the MSW Program. (For new Advanced Standing Students only)

Credits

3