Course Description
Grounded in professional social work education, this experiential capstone is a year-long, applied process. In the first semester, students work collaboratively in small groups to design and implement community-based social service/justice projects with an emphasis on attainment of core curricular competencies, meta-competencies, and integration of classroom and practicum learning.
Athena Title
Capstone I
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Pre or Corequisite
SOWK 5835 and SOWK 5836
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Course Objectives
•Students will engage effectively in a small-group process •Students will communicate with their assigned faculty mentor regularly •Students will make effective use of the faculty mentor •Students will collaboratively develop applied project ideas •Students will build their projects over the course of the two- semester experience •Students will engage in critical self-reflection •Students will understand the core competencies •Students will meaningfully meet benchmark expectations of core competencies •Students will develop explicit knowledge of implicit aspects of professional socialization to social work •Students will develop key meta-competencies •Students will convey integration of learning
Topical Outline
• Competencies and meta-competencies • Integrated learning • Reinforce learning re: small-group dynamics • Random group assignment • Effective brainstorming • Collaboration • Developing project ideas • Planning project • Timeline development • Time management • Effective use of faculty mentorship experience • Reviewing scholarly literature and research • Develop relationships with community stakeholders
Syllabus