This 24-credit curriculum provides education and skill development in the values, concepts and processes that are the core of all social work practice. Course work in Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Social Policy, Research, and Social Work Practice helps students develop a problem-solving framework. Students also complete a two-semester practicum, two days a week, in a social service placement where, with the support and supervision of a Field Instructor, they engage in carefully supervised and progressively responsible social work practice. (Students may begin taking certain advanced courses in the semester following completion of SOWK 630 and SOWK 635.) The goal of the Foundation Curriculum is to provide for all students a sound, broad base for future practice in all concentrations and specialized fields of practice. The Foundation Curriculum comprises: | | Credits | SOWK 600 | Social Welfare and Social Policy | 3 | SOWK 630, 631 | Social Work Practice I, Social Work Practice II, These two courses cover Social Work with Individuals, Groups and Families, and Communities and Organizations (students stay with the same class all year) | 6 | SOWK 635, 636 | Foundation Field Instruction Practicum (2 days a week, fall and spring semesters, consecutively) | 6 | SOWK 640, 641 | Human Behavior and the Social Environment I, II | 6 | SOWK 670 | Social Work Research | 3 |
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