Social Work Macro Practice – SOWK 410

Course Description

This course provides a generalist social work perspective of social work with communities and organizations. Topics include engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation as well as advocacy in regards to social and economic justice.

Rationale

Social workers interact with communities and organizations on a daily basis. This course aids the student in developing competency in the areas of engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation when working with communities and organizations. It prepares the student with the foundational knowledge necessary for effective practice in macro settings.

Course Assignment

Textbook readings and lecture presentations

Course Requirements Checklist

After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.

Discussion

This discussion gives students practice applying the conflict management material reviewed in the text.  Specifically, from the case example provided, students will identify the kind(s) of conflict that exist within this situation and apply conflict resolutions skills.  Additionally, students will have opportunity to respond to other students and provide feedback and discussion on this important topic. The student will post one thread of 350 - 450 words and 2 replies of 200 - 250 words.

The purpose of this assignment is to provide students with an opportunity to evaluate Policy Advocacy within Organizations proposals that peers have created.  The student also will receive feedback on their own Proposal. For this thread, the student will attach their Policy Advocacy within Organizations assignment and post a 1-3 sentence "Summary of Proposal". The student will post 2 replies of 250-300 words.

Community Needs Assessment and Asset Mapping Assignment

The purpose of the Community Needs Assessment and Asset Mapping Assignment is for the student to apply assessment skills at the macro social work level to better understand their own local community’s needs and strengths.  For this assignment, they will employ the skills of community needs assessment and community asset mapping as described in the text.

Students will demonstrate macro advocacy skills by creating a memo to the leadership of an organization to advocate for a specific policy change. They also will review it with at least one person and incorporate feedback

The purpose of this assignment is to apply and practice the macro social work skill of program evaluation. 

Based on the Community Needs Assessment and Asset Mapping completed earlier in the semester, students will identify a primary community need in their local community. In this 
assignment, you will imagine that you have created a program in your social services agency to address this community need as directly as possible, and develop a program
evaluation process that demonstrates your understanding of the key evaluative concepts.

Quizzes (7)

Each quiz will cover the Learn material for the module: week in which it is assigned. Each quiz will be open-book/open-notes, contains multiple-choice and true/false questions, and has a 20- or 30-minute time limit.  The quizzes assess Competency 2-Diversity (knowledge), Competency 3-Justice (values, knowledge, cognitive/affective processes), Competency 4-Research (knowledge), & Competency 5-Policy (knowledge, values, cognitive/affective processes).

Quiz: Final

The Quiz: Final covers the textbook material from all modules: weeks. This quiz contains 50 multiple-choice and true/false questions and has a time limit of 1 hour and 30 minutes. The Quiz: Final assesses Competency 2-Diversity (knowledge), Competency 3-Justice (values, knowledge, cognitive/affective processes), Competency 4-Research (knowledge), & Competency 5-Policy (knowledge, values, cognitive/affective processes).