The course will take up special topics on emerging trends in social work practice focusing on the profession’s responses to social issues and problems.

The course deals with the development and conduct of Social Work community education and training activities in the context building capacities of peoples organizations.

The course will enable social work students to become familiar with the management of social welfare agencies, both public and private, to prepare them for field placement in an institutional setting; will provide theories, methods and processes how a social agency functions and how it is managed. The course will also focus on Social Work Supervision as an administrative, teaching, and helping tool.

Research II is designed to augment Research I with the end goal of fully developing the competencies needed by the students in the systematic conduct of research. This course covers the writing of a scientific paper/ thesis; final oral defense to a chosen panel of experts; dissemination of the results to an appropriate venue, for example, a research congress /forum or during community extension activities.