SOWK 6341 Field Practicum I
Field Practicum I, is the first in a sequence of four field practicum courses. Students are introduced to the principle that students need to develop social work practice skills to work with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities. Students learn to integrate the theoretical and conceptual frameworks of social work in field practicum sites to increases their knowledge and practice skills of how poverty, oppression and trauma influence social welfare problems and their manifestation into problems facing individuals, group, communities and organizations. Students being to demonstrate the nine social work competencies in a professional setting and evaluated each semester on their growth. Field Practicum I require students to complete 225 hours of supervised clinical practice in an agency or organization. Field Education I and II are sequential courses that require a minimum combined total of 450 hours