Masters in Social Work

Masters in Social Work

Portland State University School of Social Work 

How many credits?

The course will comprise of at least 78 credit hours, commonly 6 or 7 quarters of scholastic study. Four credits will be honored for Peace Corps administration, which will oblige understudies to create and execute an individualized administration learning arrangement in the host nation. This methodology will start preceding flight with the understudy determining wide learning objectives. In any case, the understudy will take part in an augmented period (three to four months) of evaluation and reflection upon landing in the host nation before adding to a last administration learning arrangement. The arrangement will be inspected by an employee in the School of Social Work, through email, and the understudy will track progress towards objective accomplishment and upgrade the employee on a consistent (e.g., quarterly) premise through the rest of the administration period. An extensive variety of regions identified with youth advancement may manage the arrangement, for instance: extending or fortifying instructive open doors for youth; supporting families, more distant families, and non-family relationship bolster systems; advancing positive associate systems for youth; enhancing maternal and kid wellbeing and psychological well-being; or averting negative results, for example, homelessness or youth viciousness. Determined exercises will reflect social work values, information and abilities, and will concentrate on fortifying nearby group based and hierarchical formal and casual structures that advance youth improvement.

Pre-Peace Corps service coursework:

To guarantee a typical base for social work hone the MSW program workforce at Portland State has recognized an obliged Foundation educational module to be finished by all understudies, paying little mind to their decision of fixation. Understudies in the MSW system will finish two years on grounds preceding their Peace Corps administration, and afterward finish an one-term 2-credit autonomous study when they come back to the PSU grounds. Three terms of simultaneous Foundation field practicum experience are an indispensable piece of the educational module. Fulfillment of this Foundation year of social work substance will furnish PCMI understudies with a learning and expertise base for practice over five levels: people, families, gatherings, groups, and society. Particular propelled substance in Community-Based Practice or Social Services Administration and Leadership will get ready understudies to draw in groups and people in the Peace Corps host nation, work synergistically to survey qualities and needs and to distinguish craved results, and create micro-, meso-, and macro-level systems for attaining to results. The in general educational program's attention on social equity and against onerous practice will expand understudies' capacity to participate in socially delicate exercises in host groups that are relationship-based, strengthening focused, and driven by neighborhood conditions. Moreover, entry level position involvement in youth-serving settings, Foundation and propelled practice coursework, and specific elective substance on youth work in social work will plan understudies for formatively touchy practice in the field.

How would the Peace Corps experience be integrated into the students' academic program?

Students will engage in self-directed learning prior to and during the overseas experience. At the conclusion of their time overseas, students will have implemented an individualized learning plan and documented activities related to attaining learning goals. Upon return to the School of Social Work, students will complete a two-credit independent study during which they integrate the overseas learning experience with social work coursework, with required products including a paper and public presentation for peers, faculty, and others.

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