Macro Practice: Service Learning Lab
SOWK 331- SLL
University of Indianapolis Phylis Lan Lin Program in Social Work
Social Work Macro Practice: Service Learning Lab Winter, 2011
SOWK 331-SLLab Jeff Bryant, MSW, LCSW
Room: TBA Office: GH 216, 788-3999
When: TBA
General Course Description:
Service Learning Labs provide an opportunity to extend learning outside of the traditional classroom and encourage students to strengthen and refine their skills. The primary goal for this lab is to further develop the student’s use and appreciation of knowledge and application for practice. This practice includes integrating knowledge, skills, and values in the areas of social work values and ethics, diversity, social and economic justice, populations-at-risk, human behavior and the social environment, social welfare policy and services, social work practice and field. This lab is designed to strengthen the students understanding and appreciation of the macro setting in social work. Where they can gain a better understanding of how policy and procedures are implemented, designing new programs, supervising staff, writing grants, and how an agency operates.
Prerequisites:
To be eligible for SOWK 331, students must be currently enrolled in the SOWK 330 course. All learning objectives and expectations for SOWK 330, which are required for this lab, are outlined in the SOWK 330 course syllabus. This course, SOWK 331 is an optional one hour experimental learning opportunity. This lab applies the knowledge, values, and skills of the content of the SOWK 30 course to an applied learning experience.
Objectives:
1. Demonstrate an understanding and application of the macro practice approach to building knowledge for practice and for evaluating service delivery in social work practice.
2. This will illustrate awareness and concern for ethical standards of macro practice including general principles in common use for practice in concert with the NASW Code of Ethics.
3. Develop an awareness and concern for diversity issues in the context of working in a macro setting of an agency.
4. Develop an understanding and appreciation for the macro aspect of an agency including issues such as how policy and procedures are implemented, designing new programs, supervising staff, writing grants, and how an agency operates.
Requirements:
1. Students need to complete and hand in the confidentiality clause form as attached.
2. Students need to volunteer 24 hours of time doing community service work at on Agency.
3. Daily Reflective Journaling must be completed after each volunteer visit (see sample form). Students either use this form or write a free style journal of their experience.
4. An agency paper and or presentation, from a Macro perspective, will be turned in before the end of this course.
5. Evaluation forms must be turned in at the conclusion of your service learning project; the project evaluation completed and signed by you and the project supervisor/faculty.
6. Prepare a presentation for the “Service Learning Expo” in the Atrium of Schwitzer Center, on Tuesday, April 20, 12 noon-1 pm. Presentations may be displayed in a 3-way poster format, notebook portfolio, or PowerPoint presentation. Presentations must include:
a. Name of agency; describe its service and programs.
b. Social problem or problems the agency addresses, types of clients you worked with or served, description of neighborhood/community.
c. Tasks, responsibilities you had during your project.
d. Relate agency and service to our class/textbook- macro.
e. Describe in length one or two memorable experiences that happened to you during your Service Learning work- “Tell Your Story.”
f. Why were these memorable or important to you? What feeling did you have about this?
g. How does your new knowledge about your experience relate to this course?
h. Include brochures, pamphlets, workshops attended, project materials you were involved with. You may also include pictures of when you were there. You will need to get permission from any of the clients if you wish to show their pictures.
Text:
Generalist Practice with Organizations and Communities, Kirst-Ashmen and Hull, third edition
Grading:
Grades will be calculated as percentages based on the numbers of points earned in relation to the total possible for the course. There will be no curve.
The following grading scale will be used:
9 4-100 = A 84-86 = B 74-76 = C
90-93 = A- 80-83 = B- 70-73 = C-
87-89 = B+ 77-79 = C+ 64-69 = D
63 or below = F