This course is designed to provide individualized and experiential generic learning offered within the setting of a social service agency. The student will be introduced to a variety of social work practice roles, develop professional relationships with client systems and learn to apply a number of interventive modalities to effect change. In order to facilitate integration of classroom theory with practice, students will attend seven two-hour seminars. This course is designed to provide supervised, individual, generic learning experiences, in selected social welfare agencies. It is designed to introduce graduate students to beginning micro and macro social work practice.
Emphasis is placed on the use of research in social work practice.
Social and behavioral science research methods will be reviewed. Research on racism, minorities, social status, disabilities and Third World peoples will be reviewed. Statistics used in the studies will be reviewed. Students enrolled in the 63 Credit Program will have met this requirement at the foundation level.