Course Description
Grounded in professional social work education, this experiential capstone is a year-long, applied process. In the second semester, students continue to implement community projects and reflect on and creatively convey during a culminating symposium, attainment of the core curricular competencies, meta-competencies, and effective integration of classroom and practicum learning.
Athena Title
Capstone II
Prerequisite
SOWK 5850 and permission of department
Pre or Corequisite
SOWK 5845 and SOWK 5846
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
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 • Collaboration • Trouble-shooting project ideas • Time management • Effective use of faculty mentorship experience • Effective presentation styles/skills • Applying scholarly literature and research • Collaborating with community stakeholders
Syllabus