SWRK 319W - Writing for Agency Practice [GEWI]

This is a writing intensive course, preparing students for the professional writing components of professional, agency-based practice while developing professional writing skills focused on a simulated client situation.

Credit 3 hrs May not be repeated for additional credit
Grade Mode Normal (A-F) Course Rotation

Concurrent Prerequisite(s) SWRK 315
Major Restriction(s) Social Work [BSW]
Class-Level Restriction Undergraduate standing

Social work practice requires that record-keeping be accountable, efficient, and that it protect the client’s privacy. Good records are concise, specific, relevant, clear, logical, timely, meaningful, and useful. Records are grounded in fact, professional ethics, and accepted theory. Above all, high quality records are well organized and well written. This Writing Intensive course is based on the philosophy that the most effective way to improve student social work record-keeping skills is to practice writing actual social work records. To this end, the course will be modeled after a writing lab, where each week students will be working on a particular social work record-keeping document, such as an Intake Form, Social History, Plan of Care, Case Notes, Advocacy Letter, and using a simulated case this is the focus of the Social Work practice course SWRK 317 in which students are concurrently enrolled.
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Updates Change to class-level restriction 1/2017, effective Fall 2017; Change to description 10/2013, effective Winter 2014; 12/2007, effective Winter 2008; Change to Corequisite and prerequisite 6/2011, effective Fall 2011

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