SCWK 211 - Field Observation

3 Credit(s)

Students complete a 112-hour placement in a social service agency under the supervision of a social welfare field instructor. Goals include observing how social workers provide generalist social work services and understanding how social welfare agencies assist clients. Students demonstrate ethical and professional behavior in a practice setting, begin to engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate clients, and learn to use supervision to guide these processes. Students critique their understanding of the profession of social work at both thinking and feeling levels. This course may be repeated for up to three additional credit hours in a different agency providing service to another population of people. Field Observation is completed during May term.

Prerequisite(s): Satisfactory completion of SCWK 200.

Course Frequency: F, S, M

Grading Method: Pass/Fail.