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Social Work Program
Overview
The Social Work Program prepares students
for professional employment in human service organizations
and or graduate study in social work. Students earn the Bachelors
of Social Work degree (BSW). The program is accredited by
the Council on Social Work Education.
To prepare generalist social work practitioners, the program begins with a firm
liberal arts foundation and base in the social sciences. The program then provides
a “practice sequence” to facilitate students in utilizing their social
science foundation to actually assess and plan effective intervention at all
social levels – individual, family, small groups, organizations and communities.
Finally, the program combines this academic study with supervised field experiences
so that our students have “hands on” experience prior to graduation.
This program prepares students to work with various populations from children
to the elderly, their families and from individuals with physical impairments
to those with severe and persistent mental illness. The social work profession
has a rich and proud heritage. There are few professions that offer the challenge
and variety of opportunities to serve others. Career opportunities abound in:
- Nursing Homes
- Hospitals
- Substance Abuse Programs
- Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities Services
- Public Health Agencies
- Family Services Agencies
- Aging Services
- Domestic Violence Programs
- Criminal Justice Agencies
- Income Maintenance Programs
- Hospices
- Home Care Agencies
- Mental Health Services
- Vocational Rehabilitation Services
- Community Action Agencies
- Children and Youth Services
- Residential Treatment Programs
- Child and Adult Day Care Centers
- Homeless Shelters
- Schools (Elementary and Secondary)
- Legal Services Agencies
Click here http://www.uncw.edu/stuaff/career/Majors/socialwork.htm for
more information on social work as a career.
To view a chart which displays the full and part time salary earnings of social
workers nationwide in 2005, please click
here
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Program of Study
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Click
here for the online version of the Social Work Student Handbook
Accreditation/Certification
As a graduate of MacMurray’s Social
Work Program, you may receive advanced standing (between 18 to
24 credit hours) in a Master’s level social work program
and be eligible to take state and national licensing examinations.
Admission and Retention Criteria for the Social Work
Program
First Year
A student must meet the following criteria:
- Admission to MacMurray College
- Attain an overall GPA of 2.5
- Maturity to accept the extra self-discipline
to be a social work major (i.e. regular attendance in all classes,
academic honesty, and self-examination).
- Demonstrates effective coping with
personal problems (e.g., personal and professional stress, freedom
from alcohol and chemical dependency, behaviors that puts others at
risk).
- No illegal or criminal behavior that
may preclude professional licensure or certification.
- Completion of
the first entry in the student’s social work portfolio, a 200
word essay stating reasons for wanting to enter the field of Social
Work.
Second Year
A student must meet the following criteria:
- Cumulative grade point average of 2.5
in all classes.
- Attain at least
a "C" in
all prerequisite and social work courses and an over all grade point
average of 2.5 in all social work courses.
- Progress toward 50 hours of volunteer
service
- Completion of second year social work
portfolio assignments
- Criteria and portfolio review with
social work advisor
- Continued compliance with the requirements
of the first year.
Third Year
The student will be reviewed for acceptance
into the department by the social work faculty. The review will take place
as you are completing SWK 314, Generalist Practice II. You will be expected
to verbally address a case provided by faculty in the interview. You will
discuss strategies a social worker would use to address the case and any
possible ethical issues. The student must also demonstrate readiness to
begin field work by satisfactory compliance with all requirements. Additionally,
you must also meet the following requirements:
- Completion of all Social Work Department
application materials.
- Completion of third year social work
portfolio assignments.
- Documentation of 50 hours of volunteer
service.
- Personal interview with Social Work
Faculty.
- Commitment to the principles and standards
of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics.
- Continued compliance with the requirements
of the first and second years.
Fourth Year
You will be reviewed by the agency instructor of your placement agency and
social work faculty. Completion of all portfolio assignments with a satisfactory
grade. You must also comply with the requirements for the first, second, and
third years and with the principles and standards of the NASW Code of Ethics.
Note: Students who are unable to
fulfill all of the requirements for each level of acceptance into the
Social Work Department may be accepted on a conditional basis. If a student
is accepted conditionally, those conditions will be put in writing and
reviewed by the student and her or his advisor at the midterm and the
end of each semester.
Internships
The major combines academic study with supervised field practicums
in order to fully integrate classroom theory with actual social
work practice.
Beginning in the senior year students are able to choose from a wide
variety of agency placements in the Jacksonville-Springfield area. Students
may also identify their own placement sites as long as the agencies meet
Departmental requirements.
Click
here for a sample of listing of Agency Placements.
Click
here for an online version of the Social Work Field Practicum
Manual
Faculty
John
D. Cox, DSW, ACSW
Professor and Chair of the Department
Dr. John Cox, Professor and Chair, earned
his doctorate of Social Work from the University of Utah. Prior to coming
to MacMurray College, Dr. Cox served as a Colonel in the United States
Air Force assigned as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Air Force,
Pentagon, Washington, D.C. His teaching experience has included faculty
positions with a Family Practice Residency Program, the Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences, and as visiting lecturer for the College
of Professional Development, Air University.
Dr. Cox received the United Methodist Church, Excellence in Teaching Award, 2002-2003.
Professor Cox has also served as the Director of an Alcoholism Treatment Center,
Director of a Family Support Center, and manager of programs dealing with work
and family, family violence, equal opportunity, sexual harassment, and workplace
diversity.
Professor Cox’s areas of special interest are substance abuse; poverty;
family violence prevention; and children, families and communities.
E-mail: john.cox@mac.edu
Fax: 217-479-7097
William R. Tennill, MSW, ACSW, LCSW
William R. Tennill, MSW, ACSW, LCSW received his Bachelor
of Arts degree in Psychology from St. Louis University in 1978 and his
Master of Social Work (MSW) degree from George Warren Brown School of
Social Work at Washington University in 1985.
His varied social work experience includes clinical practice in public and private
settings working with abused and/or neglected children and families; adolescents
and adults with emotional and/or chemical dependency problems; the severely and
persistently mentally ill; and emotionally disturbed forensic adolescents and
adults. His experience also includes administration specifically in providing
habilitation services for adults with mental retardation, and private practice
within a managed care environment.
E-mail: william.tennill@mac.edu
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