Master's Special Topics Seminar: Workforce Development

1-2 credits · Graduate

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the tensions, techniques, and dynamics of current issues applicable to a specific social work workforce arena (e.g., child welfare, public behavioral health, integrated behavioral health, aging services). Actively exposing oneself to current issues in the workforce, the organizational contexts in which they are embedded, convergences and divergences between the theoretical, evidentiary, and practice bases characteristic of the arena, identifying areas of entry-level professional development trajectories, and for development in the social work field, and developing effective strategies for presenting scholarly work are important skills for social work professionals.