Social Work
Student Learning Outcomes
After careful consideration, the following educational outcomes were derived from the
mission of Weber State University, the purpose of social work as a profession and the
recommendations of the Council on Social Work Education as related to ultimate outcomes
for social work graduates:
At the conclusion of the educational experience, social work students will be able to:
- Demonstrate how the behavioral and social science liberal arts perspective underpins
professional social work practice.
- Discuss the historical development of the social work profession that impacts on current
structure and services.
- Link people with and assist in the development of resources, services, and
opportunities.
- Identify and assess interactions of people within their social environment.
- Explain how systems promote or deter people in the maintenance or attainment of optimal
health and well-being.
- Explain the effect of policy on social work practice in helping or deterring people in
the maintenance or attainment of optimal health and well-being.
- Explain the knowledge of bio-psycho-social variables that affect individual development
and behavior, and use theoretical frameworks to understand the interactions among
individuals, and between individuals and social systems (i.e. families, groups,
organizations, and communities).
- Define issues, collect and assess data, plan and contract, identify alternative
interventions, select and implement appropriate course of action, using appropriate
research-based knowledge and technological advances, and termination.
- Assist and empower people to develop and use problem-solving, coping, and networking
capacities.
- Recognize the forms and mechanisms of oppression and discrimination and apply the
strategies and skills of change that advance social and economic justice.
- Explain and evaluate research studies that are critical for understanding client systems
of various sizes and shapes.
- Identify and use professional written and verbal communication skills that are effective
when working with client groups, colleagues, and members of the community.
- Employ generalist practice skills sensitive to diverse, oppressed, and at-risk
populations.
- Apply critical thinking skills within the context of professional social work practice.
- Apply knowledge of research studies to practice, and, under supervision, evaluate one's
own practice interventions and those of other relevant systems.
- Explain the values and ethics that guide professional social workers in their practice.
- Under supervision, function within the structure of organizations and service delivery
systems and seek necessary organizational change.
- Discuss factors that are critical for continual professional growth and development.
- Explain attributes that are critical to the professional use of self.
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