MSW Internship
Internship is designed to provide MSW students with an opportunity to integrate and apply knowledge and skills developed through coursework to practice settings. These combine with the unique abilities, style, and goals of each student and learning opportunities available in each agency to produce a highly individualized internship experience.
SWK 595 Generalist Internship
MSW students enrolled in the two-year, four-year, or Online-Blended MSW Program complete a two-semester internship experience (SWK 595) as part of the MSW Generalist curriculum. The internship seminar course, SWK 595, MSW Generalist Internship, is completed over two consecutive semesters, alongside the 400 hour, generalist internship experience. The internship experience links coursework with social work practice, allowing students to develop and apply knowledge, values, skills, and affective and cognitive processes associated with generalist practice. In SWK 595, students complete weekly logs to document their learning in their internship experience, foster critical self-reflection, and facilitate integration of practice experience with classroom knowledge and skills. Both the internship seminar and experience are sequenced to ensure students have opportunities to meet the generalist year competencies and demonstrate the practice behaviors described in the course syllabus and their learning plan agreement and student process evaluation.
SWK 695 Specialization Internship
All MSW students complete a two-semester internship experience as part of the MSW Specialization Year curriculum. The internship seminar course, SWK 695, MSW Specialization Internship, is completed alongside the 500 hour, specialization year internship experience. The specialization year internship is designed to foster development of advanced practice skills, allowing students to further develop and apply knowledge, values, skills, and affective and cognitive processes. Internship seminar provides students with space to discuss, explore and analyze the relevance and applicability of social work knowledge, skills and values to practice at multiple levels: with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. In internship seminar, students work together and with the guidance of their internship liaison to address professional, ethical, policy and practice concerns that arise in their internship experiences. Students complete weekly logs to document their learning in their internship experience, practice critical self-reflection, and further integration of practice experience with classroom knowledge and skills. Both the internship seminar and experience are sequenced to ensure students have opportunities to meet the specialization year competencies and demonstrate the practice behaviors described in the course syllabus and their learning plan agreement and student process evaluation.