May 07, 2025  
BVU Academic Catalog 2024-2025 
    
BVU Academic Catalog 2024-2025
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SCWK 442 - Field Practicum


4 Credit(s)

Students integrate social work knowledge, values, skills, and thought and feeling processes during practice in a social welfare agency. Field Practicum is an individually planned experience where students provide 480 hours of social work service in an approved agency under the guidance of a social work supervisor. A learning contract is developed by the student and field supervisor to guide activities and assure mastery of the nine CSWE core competencies, practice behaviors, and dimensions.

Prerequisite(s): Satisfactory completion of all social work major courses.

Course Frequency: S

Grading Method: Student option.

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Demonstrate the ability to respect client self-determination during the assessment process by developing a mutually agreed-upon plan.  
  2. Demonstrate ability to apply knowledge of culturally responsive, evidence-informed interventions to achieve client and constituency goals. 
  3. Demonstrate ability to apply knowledge of culturally responsive methods to negotiate, mediate, and advocate with and on behalf of clients and constituencies. 
  4. Demonstrate ability to select and use appropriate methods for evaluation of outcomes. 
  5. Demonstrate ability to critically analyze, monitor, and evaluate intervention processes and outcomes.  
  6. Demonstrate the ability to apply evaluation findings to improve practice effectiveness. 



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