Commenced Attendance Quiz
This brief quiz will be utilized to establish your attendance in this course per regulations from the U.S. Department of Education. Not completing this quiz could impact your financial aid
Attendance (5 points per day-approximately 220 pts total)
Much of the integrative learning that occurs in this class comes from lecture and discussions in-class. Attendance is a necessary component of the course experience. Consequently, daily attendance will be taken via a single canvas quiz offered at random times throughout the class period.
Students are allowed 5 (five) free absences without any penalty to their grade. When an emergency, illness or other events arise, you do not need to let me know when you want to use one of your free days, just know I will apply your free days to the missed day. In order to avoid penalty beyond the five days, you will need accommodations from the
Disability Resource Center (DRC)Links to an external site.. Please reach out to them if you experience something that would lead to missing more than 5 days. In the event class is canceled, you will automatically get full points for that day.
Attendance at The SUU Festival of Excellence & The Utah Council on Family Relations Conference (25 pts each- 50 total)
Weekly Discussions (10 points each - 140 total)
Discussions provide you an opportunity to think critically about what you are learning, to share this with others, and to learn from your fellow students. Each week a discussion question will be posted. You are expected to create your own response (a minimum of four sentences) and then respond to two other posts (two to three sentences).
Your first response is worth 5 points, with follow-up comments worth 2.5 points each. Please keep in mind this is not a casual text to your friend but a well-thought out response, using professional language including appropriate punctuation, capitalization and grammar. Use of in text citation will add depth to your post. Please write according to APA-7.
Reading Quizzes (10 points each - 140 total)
Due each Wednesday. Quizzes are a great way to encourage reading. Each week there will be a reading quiz due. Each quiz will have 5 objective (e.g., multiple-choice, matching, and true/false) and worth 10 points each. Quizzes are time limited to 8 minutes but can be taken twice, with Canvas retaining your highest score. Quizzes will be administered through Canvas utilizing Proctorio. At the end of the semester, I will drop the lowest two quiz scores (only 2 quizzes).
Quizzes are open note and open book, but not open neighbor.
Guest Speaker Quizzes (10 points each - 140 total)
Exposure to licensed social workers in the field is one of the best ways to offer you an introduction to the field of social work. Every Friday we will have a guest speaker that is prerecorded so that I can introduce you to social workers across the US. Every Friday (with the exception of the first Friday of the semester) you will attend the lecture asynchronously which means you do not need to come to class on Friday.
We will be using Anotto technology for the guest speaker videos. 5 quiz questions (2 pts each) are built into the 50 min and will pause at random times throughout the video to "quiz" you about what you just heard. These questions will be straight forward and aimed at assessing whether or not you watched the video.
Tips for Using Anotto:
- Use Chrome for your browser
- You may always rewind, but you cannot fast forward
- Be sure to hit "submit" (lower right corner) of the screen
Guest Speaker Information Covered in the Videos:
- Career path
- The population they work with
- The route they took into social work
- Social justice issues they face in their career
- Social welfare programs they intersect with.
- Ethical issues they face in their career.
Macro Social Work Career Presentation (50 points total)
In week 5, We will learn about macro social work from each other using group presentations. Social workers must learn to work alongside others and practice networking with other professionals, which is why this is a group assignment. Please create a powerpoint presentation with the below components and present to the class (sign ups will occur in week 4). Each member needs to speak during the presentation. Your presentation will need to be 10 mins and no longer to ensure everyone has time to present. Your group needs to have a minimum of 4 group members.
Tasks:
- Choose one career path option for social workers who want to work at the macro level of social work.
- Explain this career path including a job description, duties, earning potential, etc.
- Differentiate macro-level social work from micro- and mezzo-level social work by stating who the “client” is, who the social workers colleagues are, etc.
- Summarize the skills that are needed to engage in this career
- Provide examples of social justice issues that this career path might encounter
- Summarize potential ethical dilemmas this career might encounter and what the social workers’ ethical obligations might be to engage in social and political action within this career choice
- Evaluate your own goodness of fit with macro-level social work practice as a potential future career option (each group member could take less than a minute to state how they see themselves fitting within this career path)
Mid-Term Critical Thinking Paper (50 points total)
This assignment is about learning to think critically which is a foundational skill for this course and future related study. To complete this assignment, please take any topic you read in your required readings and/or a topic discussed in class, and think critically about it. An example could be the topic of substance use. You may be exposed to ideas that challenge your previous perspectives on why folks use substances. You could critically explain your thoughts on the debate of whether substance use is a disease or not. You want to explain information and possibly research/theories about substance use itself and then share your analysis of this information and what you think to be true.
Your paper should be at least 2 pages and no more than 5 pages. In order to successfully complete this assignment in 2 pages, you must be very articulate and thoughtful about how you present the information. Please follow the directions below and refer to the grading rubric for full credit for this assignment.
Critical Thinking Paper:
- Introduce one topic discussed in class or in the text (use APA to cite your references)
- Apply critical thinking to the above topic. Discuss thoughts and/or insights you have about the content.
Final Project References (25 points)
For your final project (see below), students are required to have 4 references. At least 2 of them must be from academic sources such as a textbook or journal article. In order to support you in building a project based off suitable academic resources, students will submit their references via canvas and will be approved by your instructor. Use APA format in submitting your references.
Final Project (140 points)
Final Project (150 Points total. 100pts for the project, 50pts for comments).
In lieu of a comprehensive final exam, there will be a research Project that will be presented to the class through Padlet within Canvas. You will find it under the Final Project Module.
For this project, you will do the following:
1) Choose either a social welfare agency, a social policy, or an aspect of social work history.
2) Explain the following:
a) What your topic is
b) Why it is of interest to you
c) How ethics are relevant to what you are researching,
d) How the topic you are researching interfaces with the other two options for research (for example, if you research a social policy, how is that policy impacted by social work history and how will it impact social welfare agencies).
3) Please include at least 4 references 2 of which must be academic sources (journal articles or textbooks and Peer reviewed) using APA 7 formatting.
4) Submit your references in Canvas separately from your project in Padlet.
5) You may work in a group or individually to complete this assignment.
6) You may use any format to present your project such as a PowerPoint, a video, graphic etc. as long you include the required information.
7) In addition to posting your own project, please review and comment on at least 5 other student/group projects.
Extra Credit- Complete Your Course Evaluation (25 points)
This is a huge make-up credit opportunity for you. It could replace at least 2 discussions, reading quizzes or guest speaker quizzes. Feedback on the course helps me become a better instructor. Please complete the course evaluation during the period specified on Canvas and upload evidence (a screen shot) of its completion (not the actual evaluation).
***NO other extra credit is offered. If you miss this opportunity, you forfeit your opportunity to get extra credit