The Stockton University Social Work Program’s mission is to prepare undergraduate social work majors for generalist social work practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities by providing a broad-based, professional education that rests on a solid liberal arts foundation. The Program also seeks to serve the larger college community through Social Work and General Studies course offerings that have universal appeal to those seeking a better understanding of the human condition. The Program’s central focus is on producing graduates who have a lifetime commitment to upholding human rights, respecting human diversity, and working towards social and economic justice in their professional and personal lives.

1. To prepare graduates to practice with diverse populations, particularly those who have been placed at risk by patterns and histories of social injustice.

Core Competencies

1. Engage diversity and difference in practice
2. Advance human rights and social and economic justice
3. Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities

2. To provide comprehensive content about generalist social work practice.

Core Competencies

1. Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly
2. Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice
3. Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments
4. Engage diversity and difference in practice
5. Advance human rights and social and economic justice
6. Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research
7. Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment
8. Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services
9. Respond to contexts that shape practice
10. Engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
11. Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment

3. Provide content about the social contexts of social work practice.

Core Competencies

1. Apply knowledge of human behavior and the social environment
2. Engage in policy practice to advance social and economic well-being and to deliver effective social work services
3. Respond to contexts that shape practice

4. Infuse throughout the curriculum the values and ethics that guide professional social workers in their practice.

Core Competencies

1. Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice

5. Prepare graduates to be conscientious lifelong learners.

Core Competencies

1. Identify as a professional social worker and conduct oneself accordingly

6. Prepare graduates who demonstrate the ability to think critically, write effectively, communicate effectively orally, use practice experience to inform scientific inquiry, and be comfortable with the use of computers.

Core Competencies

1. Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments
2. Engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research

7. Faculty of the Stockton Social Work Program will provide service to the broader college community, to the surrounding southern New Jersey region, and in wider statewide, national, and international arenas. In this way, we deepen the Social Work Program’s capacity to bring professional values and ethics to the broadest possible population, representing to students what it means to be engaged professional social workers; and we demonstrate our commitment to ensure that Stockton College graduates are prepared to be citizens in a democratic, multi-cultural society.

The Social Work Program is open to Stockton students in good standing who have successfully completed the introductory sequence of social work courses and who have discussed their intent to major in social work with a social work program preceptor. Students are encouraged to consult social work faculty members as a means of determining their interests in social work and assessing what the program and the profession may offer to those who participate. The earlier this is done the better.

Transfer students must contact a faculty member immediately upon arrival at the college and before registration, so that previous academic work can be evaluated and an individualized course of study can be established.

Community college transfer students who do not come from a human services/social work program may have to complete more than 64 credits at Stockton to satisfy the requirements for the degree in social work. This may require an additional one or two terms of academic work.

Since the beginning of the Social Work Program at Stockton University in 1972, practicum has been a vital and highly valued component of social work education. We work very closely with over 70 community agencies and their staff in the professional social work community to provide opportunities for students to apply classroom learning in practice settings under the supervision of highly qualified professionals. Additionally, students are able to test and evaluate their developing competencies as generalist social work practitioners in their internships as well as integrate their experiences into classroom learning assignments.

In the Junior Sequence, students are introduced to practicum and prepared for internships in SOWK 3905- Practicum taken in conjunction with SOWK 3605- Theory and Methods of Generalist Practice II. Students are expected to complete 436 hours in their Senior Year in conjunction with their Senior Seminar Course that emphasizes the development of practice skill in the delivery of social services. Typically to meet these requirements, students arrange their academic schedules to accommodate spending 2 days a week per semester interning during both semesters of their senior year in addition to attending practicum seminars held throughout the semester.

Social work agencies, departments, and programs selected to provide internship opportunities must be committed to the value of undergraduate social work education and be able to provide pertinent learning experiences for students. To see a list of our current internship agency partners, please visit the Internship Opportunities webpage.

For further information, please contact the Coordinator of BSSW Practicum Education, Douglas Deane, at 609-626-3562 or by email: Douglas.Deane@stockton.edu.

General Information

• 2024-2025 Practicum Manual
• 2022-2023 practicum Manual
• 2024-2025 SOWK Student Handbook
• Current Work Setting practicum Placement Request form
• Incident Report form

Practicum Instructor Forms

• Practicum Instructor Update Form
• Practicum Instructor Evaluation of Stockton Social Work Program

Junior Forms

• Junior Application and Informed Consent
• Placement Interview Evaluation
• Process Recording Process for Supervision Session
• Junior Learning Contract

Senior Forms

• Senior Learning Contract
• Senior Practicum Evaluation Form
• Senior Student's Evaluation of Practicum Experience
• Process Recording Process Template
• Process Recording Process for Supervision Session
• Journal Exercise