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This course will examine in some detail crimes such as murder, serial killers, child molesters, rapists, and related crimes of violence. Topics such as psychological profiling of serial killers, rapists, and child molesters will also be discussed.

Taken concurrently with SWK-470. Requires placement in a social service agency arranged by the Department of Social Work. Through observation and participation in a social service program in a community agency, students advance their knowledge of the social work profession and refine their practice skills. This placement occurs under the educational direction of agency professionals and university faculty. IWU-National and Global students remain in their field placement site from SWK-366 and continue working 17 hours per week. Residential students are placed in a community agency and are required to complete 32 hours per week. Prerequisites for residential students: SWK-357 and completion of the field practice application process.

Taken concurrently with SWK-466 Social Work Field Placement Seminar. This seminar course is the signature pedagogy and last stage of the Social Work program. Designed to integrate the concepts, knowledge, skills, and values that are learned from Social Work Practice, Social Policy, Human Behavior in the Social Environment, and Social Research. Provides opportunities for students to share learning experiences from agency placement and develop professional identity and competency.

A series of rotating seminars focusing on social work practice relative to special populations, settings, interventive approaches, and specific problems such as social work with the substance abuser, social work with children, issues in child welfare, or social work with the aging.

Prerequisites: Social Work major and permission of instructor.

Taken concurrently with SWK-470. Requires placement in a social service agency arranged by the Department of Social Work. Through observation and participation in a social service program in a community agency, students advance their knowledge of the social work profession and refine their practice skills. This placement occurs under the educational direction of agency professionals and university faculty. Non-residential students remain in their field placement site from SWK-366 and continue working 17 hours per week. Residential students are placed in a community agency and are required to complete 32 hours per week. Prerequisites for residential students: SWK-357 and completion of the field practice application process.