Describes a successful research seminar offered for five years to second-year students in a master's program at the Jane Addams School of Social Work. Included are rationale, objectives, content, and teaching and learning experiences covering the function and design of information systems for accountability, planning, management, supervision,…

This description of course objectives, content, students, and evaluation of an interdisciplinary social welfare course concludes that teaching social welfare in a comparative cross-national framework contributes to instilling an understanding of key social welfare concepts, programs, and issues. (JT)

Various ways in which social work educators can use the classroom to prepare students for creative groupwork are explained and the roles and responsibilities of teachers are discussed. Knowledge areas that should be emphasized include: views of the human condition, small group theory, group dynamics, and modelling professional values. (Author/BH)

A redefinition of the role of the clinical social worker as researcher is proposed and a sequence of courses and practicum-related assignments designed to prepare students for this role are described. A major reorganization of the prevailing curriculum structure is needed to prepare social work students. (Author/BH)

The benefits of a course on American racism for Black graduate social work students are discussed. It is suggested that their personal experiences of oppression and social alienation provide an impetus to use the present to counteract attitudinal/institutional White racism, and that feelings about the past can offer insight to affect social…

An approach to teaching research to MSW students which emphasizes production of an article for a professional journal is described. Special skills needed are identified and the motivational task of the instructor is discussed. It is suggested that a successful research experience provides reinforcement for the continuation of writing by students…