SW 470

Practicum I

This course is designed to provide an educationally supervised practicum within human services organizations. This is a generalist practicum work experiences based on the structural/strengths model of social work practice and taken concurrently with Practicum Seminar and Lab I and Generalist Practice III courses. This practicum course integrates course assignments to assist students in developing social work perspectives and skills, using the Elements of Thoughts from the Paul-Elder Framework of Critical Thinking in working with a range of client systems: individuals, couples, families, groups, organizations and communities. The practicum experience provides for the integration of theory learned across social work practice, human behavior, diversity, organizational and community dynamics, social policy and research courses

Units: 3.0