Field Practicum (SW 5410 00)

Term: 2025-26 Fall

Faculty

LaToi S Smith
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Schedule

Tue, 4:00 PM - 5:55 PM (8/26/2025 - 8/26/2025) Location: AMAIN ADMIN 2203
Tue, 4:00 PM - 5:55 PM (9/16/2025 - 9/16/2025) Location: AMAIN ADMIN 2203
Tue, 4:00 PM - 5:55 PM (10/14/2025 - 10/14/2025) Location: AMAIN ADMIN 2203
Tue, 4:00 PM - 5:55 PM (11/11/2025 - 11/11/2025) Location: AMAIN ADMIN 2203
Tue, 4:00 PM - 5:55 PM (12/2/2025 - 12/2/2025) Location: AMAIN ADMIN 2203

Description

This course is the foundation field placement which allows students to apply and integrate Social Work foundation knowledge, skills, values, and ethics with direct practice. The course is taken concurrently with the required foundation field seminar. The fieldwork experience provides students with supervised field-based assignments and tasks selected to complement Social Work foundation academic courses. Students will be exposed to a variety of social work roles such as case manager, counselor, advocate, organizer, administrator, facilitator, mediator, educator, and planner. Students are expected to develop knowledge, understanding, and skills concerning relationships with clients, supervisors, co-workers and external constituencies. In addition, students will be expected to develop an understanding of the context of social work practice as it relates to: multiculturalism and diversity; social justice and social change; prevention, promotion, treatment and rehabilitation; and research-