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Field Education

Perhaps no part of the curriculum provides as intensive a learning environment as the field education sequence for bachelors and masters level students. In the community, learning alongside veteran social workers and administrators our students' experience the efficacy of their learning in action for others.

The objective of the field program is to develop practitioners who are strongly identified with the social work profession and its values and who are committed to self-evaluation and life-long professional growth. The field sequence is a distinct and integral part of the curriculum providing students with the opportunity to build, apply and integrate knowledge from all areas of the curriculum within a practice setting. In addition, the field sequence courses provide educationally-directed learning experiences for students to explore their professional identity, professional use of self, issues of social and economic justice, issues concerning populations-at-risk, and the ethics and values of the social work profession. The School has placement settings in Austin, in Texas, out-of-state, and Internationally. It also maintains a field unit, the Title IV-E Child Welfare Education Collaboration with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.

Please visit the BSW Field and MSSW Field pages for information specific to those degree programs. If you have questions, please contact the Field Office at 512-471-6207 or by email at ssw-field@austin.utexas.edu

Agencies

Innovative Field Instructor Training

Please visit these four special topic areas that are critical for effective field instruction. We welcome your participation and feedback. Have fun with this experience as you learn! CEU's for each module are available.

2006 - 2007 Field Survey

Our Fall Field Process for Fall 2006 begins in February*. Download the form (PDF) and fax it us to submit your requests for BSW Fall Block and 1st year MSSW Concurrent social work students.

*If you have never requested student interns in the past, please contact the Field Office at 512-471-6207 or by email at ssw-field@austin.utexas.edu for an application to become an approved agency through The UT Social Work Field Education Program. You must meet the qualifications to supervise student interns and the application must be processed and approved before you fill out this survey.