Table 3.

Curricular examples related to CSWE (2015) Competencies 3 and 5

Course	Assignment	Learning objective
Generalist Practice II	Group Co-facilitation	Employ critical thinking, reflection, and self-reflection to understand privilege and oppression, manage personal values, and maintain professional standards
Social Welfare Policies and Services	Policy Analysis	Critically assess the key strengths/weaknesses of the policy, current administration’s impact on the policy/social issue, and propose two research-informed recommendations for future advocacy efforts that will further realize the human rights principles
Generalist Field Practicum I and II	Final Field Evaluation	Provide a vignette example of engaging in practice that advances social, economic, and environmental justice or promotes human rights in practicum
Specialized Practice with Communities	Community Capacity Photo Voice	Identify a community empowerment project and employ the Photo Voice technique to visually document capacity building activities with particular attention to groups who are under-or mis-represented by the main stream media
Specialized Practice with Individuals, Families, and Communities	Crisis Simulation	Create a policy/implementation plan to improve disaster preparedness and response on the municipal/state/federal levels as well as better address human rights violations and social injustices that are magnified in a community trauma/disaster
	ACT Photo Elicitation Project	Critically analyze ACT in relation to the photo elicitation project and by addressing applicability of ACT for work with individuals or families from oppressed or marginalized groups, for work with individuals’ recovery and resiliency process, and for taking into consideration the social determinants of health and structural barriers to wellness
Specialized Field Practicum I and II	Final Field Evaluation	Site supervisor evaluation of student performance in field based on nine core competencies