SOCW 4070 - Social Work Practice with Communities and Organizations

(3) Credit Hours

This course prepares students with knowledge and skills for practice within a broad array of community and organizational systems. This course emphasizes knowledge, theories, and frameworks relevant to community and organizational practice that are sensitive to human diversity, such as community development, social action, and organizing and planning. The course will help students develop knowledge, skills, and understand how to apply values when assessing and intervening within communities and organizations. Students will also reflect on cognitive/affective processes inherent to each student when interacting with diverse communities and organizations. Fall semester. Prerequisites: Approved statistics course, SOCW 3070, SOCW 3420, SOCW 3760 and SOCW 4080 or department head approval. Corequisites: SOCW 4120, SOCW 4130, SOCW 4170 or department head approval.