Social Work: Perspectives in Social Work

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MSW Advanced Standing Students Only Online Synchronous

The purpose of this course is to prepare advanced standing MSW students for participation in the UVM social work concentration curriculum. In this course Advanced Standing students will explore the guiding concepts of the UVM MSW curriculum and their application to human behavior, social work practice, policy, and research. The course begins by considering the major ideas of social construction—their genesis, conceptualizations, and relationships to social work. These ideas are then applied to different levels and contexts for social work. In particular, we consider how ideas apply to avanced social work practice contexts.

Successful completion requires that students complete 60 hours of study that involves reading required texts as indicated in the syllabus, weekly online classroom discussions, online discussions with classmates, blackboard posts and responses, individual meetings with professor and other independent work outlined in the syllabus and according to individual agreements made with the professor.

Student facilitation of readings, discussions in online meetings, and applied essays will be evaluated for their organization, reference to videos and texts used in the course to explain conceptual points, ability to interpret terms and ideas in course materials for social work contexts, and the quality of generated critical analyses.