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Experience is the Key
"While a student in the social work program, I volunteered at a runaway and homeless youth agency and spent a month shadowing social workers in a foster care setting. These experiences were an integral part of my education and gave me a good opportunity to apply the material I was learning in my classes." Jennifer Coleman, Class of 2000
Field Trips: Every semester social work students and faculty attend professional conventions and visit community agencies and programs.
Guest Speakers: Professional social workers speak in classes and visit campus every semester.
Experience Based Education (EBE): Every student has the opportunity to complete one or more social work EBE. EBE allows the student to earn academic credit while observing social work practice in a hospital, school, voluntary or public social service program.
Practice Laboratory: Each of the three major social work practice courses includes a laboratory period in which students have the opportunity, through simulations and other experiential activities, to practice the skills and use the ideas they are learning in the curriculum. These laboratories prepare students for their full-time social work practice experience, the Social Work Practicum.
Social Work Field Practicum: In the final semester the student completes a full-time, full semester social work practice experience under the supervision of an agency practicum instructor and a college practicum instructor.
Accreditation and Certification
The Council on Social Work Education fully accredits the program at the baccalaureate level. This means that the Program meets the same standards as other accredited programs in the United States and in Kansas.
The Behavioral Science Regulatory Board of the State of Kansas recognizes the Program. Graduates are eligible to sit for the bachelor level social work licensing examination. |
