4.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): SOWK 2500, SOWK 3000, and formal admission to the social work major. Corequisite(s): SOWK 4320. This course provides the general method as a practice framework for beginning social work practice. Building on foundation knowledge, values, and skills introduced in SOWK 1020, SOWK 2500, and SOWK 3000, this course emphasizes an ecological-systems approach to problem solving. Students further develop this foundation as it relates to engagement, data collection, assessment, intervention, evaluation, and termination phases in service delivery with a variety of systems. Primary emphasis is on micro and small group systems. Students learn how to work effectively without bias or discrimination. Students are required to participate in community-based learning experiences.