2023-2024 Seminary and Graduate Catalog

SWK 630 Advanced Practice: Organizations and Communities

This practice course will refine students’ practice in an organizational and community context (macro practice). Students will integrate their knowledge of practice positions and policy impacts with an understanding of systems approach, analyzing structures that interact within macro settings. Students will evaluate organizations and communities, interpreting client system data to support client system outcomes. The overall purpose of the course is to help students develop social work knowledge and skills in translating social work practice philosophy into sustainable, ethical social work in diverse situations involving communities and organizations. The continued development of an integrated biblical model of social work delivery will be explored. This course is reserved for students enrolled in the Advanced Generalist Practice concentration.

This course meets the following MSW program competencies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Credits

3