The sequences are Practice, Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Policy, Research, and the Field Experience. Courses are given in each of these sequences at both the Foundation and Advanced Levels. This foundation is presented in terms of knowledge guided frameworks for operationalizing the various phases of the empowerment process with the multiple levels of client systems with whom we work in direct practice. Generalist practice embodies the dualistic vision of social work which focusses concurrently on private issues and social justice concerns. The various sequence courses devolve from this base.
Social policy focuses on issues around social justice and humanizing systems.
The human behavior courses focus on the basic knowledge and differing world views regarding how people operate in their environments that undergird knowledge driven practice. The research sequence centers on basic knowledge needed for both self critical practice evaluation and accountability to sanctioning institutions. Both practice and field sequences focus on knowledge, values and skills essential for application in the service system environment. The concentration builds on the foundation, focusing on families, development, strengths, unique characteristics, differential expressions according to culture, research related to them and the policies impinging upon them. The knowledge, values and competencies which maximize the strengths of families along with their proximate and larger environments are stressed.