Enrollment in SS courses is limited to students officially admitted to the Community Service Assistant Program. Content includes the variety of community social agencies, their historical development, their purpose in society, the people they are designed to serve and the philosophy under which they operate. Requires 25 hours of volunteer service in a local social service agency. Offered daytime in fall semester and evening in spring semester. Discussions and demonstrations of stages of the professional helping interview, impact of interviewer attitudes, cross-cultural interviewing, types of social work interviews and general principles of interviewing are included.
Role play and classroom experiential learning are significant course components.
Students are placed in a social work agency where they receive intensive supervised experience in working with people. Issues relating to professional ethics and responsibilities, process recording, confidentiality, termination, current professional issues and theories of helping are explored. Registration in this course requires the student to purchase liability insurance through the college. Offered during the day only. Fieldwork component also completed primarily during day hours.