This is the first half of a year-long course that serves as a capstone to the full MSW learning experience. Students will design and conduct human rights-based research projects that integrate the key concepts of the MSW program’s curricular themes and course work, and develop an integrative project proposal for a study that contributes to the knowledge, skills, and values of justice-based social work practice. Prerequisites: completion of foundation year courses. Offered winter break.
Extended course description Students apply scientific methods of knowledge development for social work clinical practice; ethical standards for scientific inquiry; quantitative and qualitative research methods; and research designs to critical evaluation of research in the clinical concentration and to development of a plan for research project implementation. Students will engage in an advanced research practice experience that enables them to demonstrate the capacity to plan, conduct, and evaluate a research project in an agency or other approved venue. The research proposal is implemented during the spring semester while enrolled in SWK 609 Integrated Seminar-II and usually concurrently enrolled in Advanced Field Internship.