SOCIAL WORK 315
SCWK 490 & 491: Social Work Field Placement I and II In field placement, students are expected to demonstrate in specific and concrete ways that they are prepared as beginning professional generalist practitioners to work with all size systems from individual, family, group, organization and community. It is the program’s expectation that students will not only use the values and ethics that they have acquired through their liberal arts foundation and the social work curriculum but that they will actively promote these values and ethics in agency settings. The field component by its very nature of exposing students to real and complex life situations demonstrates and requires students and field instructors to seek new social work knowledge in order to find the best solutions to meet the client systems needs. Corequisite: SCWK 363, 400 6 credits SCWK 495: Advanced Interviewing Skills This course will focus on two very similar approaches to interviewing: solution focused and motivational interviewing. Both approaches are similar and reinforce each other and both approaches are aimed at what professionals label difficult clients. The course requires a basic understanding and skill in using basic interviewing skills. These skills will be quickly reviewed and then students will learn both solution focused and motivational interviewing. Prerequisite: SCWK 360 3 credits Social Work Curriculum (Numerals in front of courses indicate credits)
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FRESHMAN Fall Semester College Composition/LENG 111 Social Work/SCWK 111 Sacred Scriptures/LTHE 121 First-Year Seminar Public Speaking/SPCH 111
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SOPHOMORE Fall Semester History Without Borders/LHST 111 Literature Series/LENG Theology II Series/LTHE/THEO Hum Beh & Soc Env I/SCWK 221 Human Diversity/SCWK 230 Philosophy II Series/LPHI
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JUNIOR Fall Semester Statistics/SOCI 351/PSYC 211 3 Intro to Generalist Practice/SCWK 361 3 Organizational Behavior/MGMT 316 or Ethical & Social Responsibility/ 3 MGMT 360 Language 3 Fine Art Series/LFIN Electives 3 ___ 15
Spring Semester Crit Analysis & Comp/LENG 112 Political Science/POLI 111 Introduction to Philosophy/ LPHI 131 PC Applications/CIS 170,171,172,173 Social Problems, Services, Issues/SCWK 212
Spring Semester Psychology/PSYC 111 Political Science/POLI 122 Leadership Seminar Interviewing Skills/SCWK 360 Hum Behav & Soc Env II/SCWK 222 Theology or Phil III Series/LTHE or LPHI
Spring Semester Hum Beh & Soc Env III/SCWK 223 Generalist Practice with Families/Groups/SCWK 362 Social Welfare Policy, Prog & Issues/SCWK 364 Social Work Research Meth/ SCWK 380 Language