SOWK 492 - Senior Field Instruction Internship

15 credits.
This course is open only to majors with senior status. Forty hours per week in a local community agency under the supervision of an agency based field instructor will be a major component to the course. The total hours of senior field instruction (SOWK 492) is 500-600 hours upon placement. SOWK 492 is intended to extrapolate and build from Junior Field Instruction beginning level practice skills with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. The purpose of this course is to reinforce students’ identification with the purpose, values, and ethics of the social work profession. Field education is systematically designed, supervised, coordinated, and evaluated on the basis of criteria by which students demonstrate the achievement of program objectives.

Prerequisite(s): SOWK 330, SOWK 425, and SOWK 430 with a 2.30 G.P.A average overall.
Corequisite(s): None.

*Fulfills General Education Goal 14.