Introduction to Social Work

Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:

Students successfully completing this course will be able to:

• Demonstrate ability to differentiate between social welfare and social work, social need and concern, professional and personal value systems.
• Demonstrate an understanding of forms of oppression and discrimination and how this affects vulnerable populations.
• Demonstrate understanding of how a society’s structures oppress, marginalize, alienate, create, or enhance privilege and power.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how policies impact the delivery and access to social services.
• Demonstrate understanding and application of the generalist method of social work practice.
• Demonstrate an understanding of strengths perspective and its use in social work generalist practice.
• Demonstrate the ability to problem solve with clients using agency procedures.

Course Grading Information:

Activity/Performance Measure	Percentage/Points
In-Class Participation/Attendance	15 points
Social Worker Interview Narrated Slide Deck	15 points
Social Welfare Pioneer Group Presentation	15 points
Quizzes (4)	20%
Community Engaged Service-Learning Experience & Reflection Components	35%

In-Class Participation (contributes 15% to the final grade)

Grading Scale

Percentage	Letter Grade
95% - 100%	A
90% - 94%	A-
87% - 89%	B+
83% - 86%	B
80% - 82%	B-
77% - 79%	C+
73% - 76%	C
70% - 72%	C-
67% - 69%	D+
63% - 66%	D
60% - 62%	D-
59% and below	F

Attendance/Participation:

In-Class Participation (contributes 15% to the final grade)

Course Materials Purchased by the Students:

DuBois, B., & Miley, K.K. (2019). Social work: An empowering profession (9th ed). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.