Topics in Advanced Social Work Practice and Policy: Four-Country Observation and Comparison of Services
SWK710 Topics in Advanced Social Work Practice and Policy: Four-Country Observation and Comparison of Services - May 2010
This course offers Syracuse University M.S.W. students in the School of Social Work the opportunity to study comparative social work services in a specific area of human need by visiting human service agencies in France, Germany, and Switzerland in the company of social work students from these three countries. U.S. students participate in a one-week seminar in the Alsace/Rhine region of Europe with approximately 40 European social work students, followed by five days in Strasbourg with visits to the Council of Europe and a social work agency, debriefing and synthesis, and touring. In class sessions on the S.U. campus before leaving for Europe, students study the structure of the social welfare systems in the three countries and how each country and the U.S. address the social problem that is the focus of the year’s seminar.