SW 6400 - Advanced Standing: Bridge to Practice

3 Credit(s) | $7.50 Fee

This course supplements the knowledge, skills, and values foundation developed in participants’ BSW programs. Review content learned at the baccalaureate level and material that will help prepare students for the concentration year of the MSW program. Prepares MSW students to transition from the foundation year to the advanced concentration courses. Addresses topics necessary for advanced MSW-level practice and to support effective and ethical micro- and macro-level interventions. Covers key content addressed in SW foundation courses within the BSW program. This course is open to Advanced Standing students only. This is the first course of a required two-course sequence of social work “methods” or practice courses for the Advanced Standing MSW Program. Bridge focuses on applying a problem-solving approach to a broad range of target systems including individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities, based on consideration of diverse populations, those at risk, and the oppressed. In addition, it emphasizes the later stages of the problem-solving process-intervention, evaluation, and termination, particularly intervention options and skills. (Fall) [Graded Letter]

Registration Restriction(s): Advanced Standing MSW students only