What is the process to obtain a field placement?
In the semester prior to the beginning of the field placement, the B.S.W. and Foundation students complete an application for field placement (found online and due at the published deadline). This application includes background information and, students are invited to indicate their social work practice interests. The field office considers each student’s interests, goals and background to determine which agencies might be a good match. Students will then be tentatively assigned to an agency, pending a pre-placement interview. Regardless of where a student is placed, B.S.W. and Foundation settings provide social work practice learning opportunities that will broaden students’ professional experience and develop basic social work knowledge, values and skills. Concentration students receive information about placements available in their selected concentration (clinical or planning and policy practice) in several ways in the Spring semester prior to the fall semester when they will do t
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