| The Richard Stockton College of
New Jersey
Social Work Program Description |
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The primary objective of the program is to prepare students for
beginning level professional social work practice. The
Social Work Program offers the student a unique interaction between
classroom lectures and discussions and field observation, experience,
and work. Course content in social welfare concepts and practice builds
upon concepts from the humanities and from the natural, social,
behavioral, and health sciences.
The program consists of three core sequences of social work courses:
The Introductory Sequence: The
introductory sequence is normally taken during the first and second
years at Stockton. In this sequence, the student is introduced to
the building blocks--knowledge, values, and skills--of generalist social
work practice. These courses are taken by the student in the first and
second years, beginning no sooner than the second term of the first
year. During these two years, the student is preparing to become a
social work major. Faculty evaluate student efforts at this introductory
level as students seek to enter the junior sequence. In addition to the program courses listed
below, the student is expected to complete cognate courses in four areas
at the introductory level (Psychology, Sociology/Anthropology, Political
Science/Criminal Justice, Economics), in addition to college
requirements in General Studies, including a Freshman Seminar, a Writing
course, and a Biology course. By meeting these requirements and a
minimum of 16 credit hours distributed among General Arts and
Humanities, General Social and Behavioral Sciences, General Natural
Sciences and Mathematics, and General Interdisciplinary Skills and
Topics, the student meets the liberal arts base requirement of the
education program. Introductory sequence Social Work program
courses include the following:
(12 credits) Students must complete all introductory
level SOWK courses (pre-requisites), including liberal arts
prerequisites, before moving into the junior sequence. The Junior Sequence:
In the junior year, the student, having completed the introductory
sequence and the liberal arts base, becomes a full-fledged major and
takes courses to begin to integrate the knowledge, values, and skills of
generalist social work practice. During this important year, faculty
assess student interest in and commitment to the profession of social
work. At the end of the first term of this junior sequence, faculty
review student progress and potential to become generalist social work
practitioners. In addition to the courses listed below ,
the student is expected to continue in fulfilling general studies
requirements and should begin to complete more advanced social and
behavioral science requirements.
(18 credits) The Senior Sequence: In
the senior year, having completed the introductory and junior sequences,
the student prepares to become a generalist social work practitioner
through completing the integration of knowledge, values, and skills.
Social Work majors apply to enter the Senior
Seminar with Fieldwork in the Spring of their junior year. The faculty
determines their eligibility, based on the student's academic and field
work record. Students must have completed all introductory and junior
level courses to be eligible to enter the senior sequence. Through the senior year, the student
completes all General Studies requirements (total of 32 credits), most
particularly the GIS Senior Seminar course, and all 16 credits in the At
Some Distance (ASD) category. The final Social Work sequence is composed
of the following courses:
(16 credits) The fieldwork requirement is 400 hours in an approved social work
agency or program. |
Faculty members work closely with majors and intended majors to plan individual programs of study and to help assess student interest in and commitment to the profession of social work. |
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