STAR COLLEGES INC.

156 Pico Road, La Trinidad, Benguet, Philippines

Tel No. (074) 422-2636 * E-mail: general@starcolleges.edu.ph
*Website: www.starcolleges.edu.ph
Member: Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI); International Reading Association; Boys Brigade Asia; and Association of
Christian Schools Colleges and Universities (ACSCU)

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN SOCIAL WORK

SWP 2: Fields of Social Work

VISION: Enable students to exemplify leadership in academic excellence, Christian character, and globally competitive skills.

MISSION: Prepare students to be responsible citizens by providing the opportunity to acquire skills, knowledge and abilities necessary to make decisions that will lead
to meaningful and productive lives for the glory of God.

SCI OUTCOMES
1. Seek professional and academic excellence.
2. Teach biblically based programs that will foster Christian character.
3. Advocate parental involvement with emphasis on parent’s support.
4. Respond to every curriculum need of students to meet national and international standard.
5. Instill environmental awareness and consciousness among the students.
6. Acquire necessary skill to enhance their leadership abilities for community involvement.
7. Need to uphold cooperative teacher-parent partnership.
8. Set and develop firm discipline among staff and students motivated by professional interest.
COLLEGE OUTCOMES
Star Colleges, Inc. has adopted the following objectives of Tertiary Education as provided in the Manual of Regulations for Private Higher education of 2008:

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 1. To provide a general education program that will assist each individual to develop his/her potential as a human being, enhance the quality of citizen
participation in the basic functions of society, and promote in each student a sense of national identity, cultural consciousness, moral integrity and spiritual
vigor;
2. To train the nation’s human resources in the required skills for national development, and to instill and foster the appropriate and relevant attitudes, skills and
knowledge to enable each individual to become a useful productive, globally competitive, and gainfully employed member of the society;
3. To develop and maintain the integrity of the profession and disciplines that will provide leadership for the nations; and
4. To advance the frontiers of knowledge through research work, and apply the technology gained for improving the quality of human life and responding
effectively to changing societal needs and conditions.
5. Articulate and discuss the latest developments in the specific field of practice;
6. Effectively communicate in English and Filipino, both orally and in writing;
7. Work effectively and collaboratively with a substantial degree of interdependence in multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams;
8. Act in recognition of professional, social, and ethical responsibility;
9. Preserve, promote “Filipino historical and cultural heritage” (based on RA 7722);
10. Model Christian values and biblical principles; and
11. Imbibe the great commission found in Matthew 28:19-20.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN SOCIAL WORK PROGRAM OUTCOMES

Knowledge:

Skills:

Attitude:

Values:

I.COURSE INFORMATION
Course Title Fields of Social Work
Course Code SWP2

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Course Description Exposure to and orientation on the different social welfare/social work settings and contexts; social work roles and functions in
working with different types of client system, issues and concerns of social welfare/development agencies.
Course Credits 3 units
Prerequisite none
General Learning Outcome A. Cognitive
1. Identify the different social work practice settings, clients; needs and problems and agency responses.
2. Compare and contrast at least 2 different social work practice settings based on typology of setting, clientele, functions
of social work including gender responsive approach.
3. Explain the reasons for the existence of welfare agencies as influenced by the socio-economic and political conditions
of the country.
4. Explain the class, age, ability, gender, education, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation are used to assess the especially
difficult circumstances of the clientele of social welfare/development agencies.
B. Affective
1. Demonstrate appreciation of the scope and diversity of the social work settings.
2. Manifest beginning identification with particular social work settings as a potential career path.
C. Psychomotor
1. Produce a directory of social welfare and developmental agencies with corresponding target clientele, program and
services, and eligibility requirements.

II. COURSE CONTENT

Lesson/Topic Methodology
Levelling of expectations; Overview of Fields of Social Work Presentation of course syllabus, interactive-discussion
Review of basic concepts in Social Work: social work, needs, problems, issues, Situationer/s, lecture-discussion
provisions, programs and services, social responsibility, human rights, clients,
social welfare and social agency
Overview of social realities, social services and resource systems for clients Lecture-discussion
Fields of Social Work Panel discussion, interactive discussion, agency visit, film showing, role playing
 “Locus of practice” Direct and indirect practice
 Primary and secondary settings
 System level/size: micro, mezzo, macro

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  Contexts: hospitals, court, welfare institutions, school, church, military,
industrial/corporate
 Sector based client population: farmers, fisher’s folks, women, peasants,
laborers, OFW, and migrant workers, urban, poor, etc.
 Types of organizations: LGUs, NGOs, GOs, Civil Society, POs
 Social work practice with specific client population with special needs and
circumstances.
International social work practice Research activities
Other settings or emerging fields of social work practice Research activities
Practice corresponding roles and functions of the social work Lecture-discussion
 Migration and social work
 International social work
 Human trafficking
 Cyber crimes
 Forensic social work
 Gender and development
 Corporate Social Responsibility
 Environmental protection
 Peace and Development
 Social Work and Mental Health
DSWDs response to Poverty Lecture-discussion
 4Ps
 SLP
 KALAHI-CIDDS
 Social Protection
Course Integration and Synthesis Group sharing, role plat

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Course Requirements
1. Attendance
2. Participation in class, group discussions and activities
3. Documentations
4. Quizzes
5. Assignments

Grading system
The policy on the grading system of the HEI will be followed

References
1. Thelma Lee-Mendoza, Social Welfare and Social Work
2. Philippine Encyclopedia of Social Work
3. DSWD Reform Agenda
4. Fundamentals of Social Work. Leonora de Guzman
5. RA 7610
6. MDG Documents

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