SWRK 4365 - Senior Seminar in Social Work

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Restrictions: Social Work Director’s approval. Prerequisites: All general education and liberal arts requirements; and all social work required core courses.
The third of three courses required for the Social Work Practice sequence. This is a comprehensive and integrative capstone course for senior level social work majors. The course is designed to help students integrate course content learned in the explicit curriculum with emphasis on the program’s competencies and the following core content areas: Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Social Welfare Policy and Services, Social Legislation, Social Work Practice, Research and Field Practicum within their beginning professional generalist social work practice. The senior seminar provides opportunities and preparation for the student’s development of his/her professional use of “self,” self-evaluation, and proficiency in the self-critical and accountable use of social work knowledge, values, and practice skills from the liberal arts. The course also allows students an opportunity to review various theoretical and conceptual frameworks as well as intervention strategies utilized to alleviate discrimination and/or oppression within diverse populations and systems levels. Students are required to attend Social Work Computer Lab sessions which will include: reviews of SPSS, sample examination items for both the Social Work Comprehensive Examination and the Social Work Licensing Preparation Materials. In order to pass this course, all students must score 70 or higher on the Social Work Comprehensive Examination. Students will be allowed only one opportunity to retake the examination.