This two semester requirement provides advanced practice experience in a wide range of social work settings. Students spend 24 hours per week in the field. Individual field placements are arranged with each student by the field coordinator. In order to receive course credit, students must satisfactorily complete both semesters. A concurrent integrative seminar is also required. The goal of the workshop-style weekly seminar is to assist students in conceptualizing and integrating the multiple theoretical issues and practice concepts of course work and the practicum. Students are expected to take major responsibility for the semester, using the instructor as a resource. This is part two of the advanced year-long internship course. Students must have successfully completed the first half of internship and Internship Seminar 3.

This course provides an introduction to the most important topic in the 21 century--intellectual assets. Students will receive an overview in practical, real-world aspects of managing intellectual assets (copyright, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, etc.). Students taking this course will be exposed to lectures, guest presentations, and case studies aimed at increasing their understanding of intellectual property strategies and related legal issues; technology assessment; technology valuation; licensing issues, strategies and negotiation techniques; business planning and start-up company development; and strategies for attracting investment for new ideas. The instructors and guest speakers for the course are involved in managing, protecting, investing in, or commercializing intellectual property assets in real world settings such as university technology transfer offices, patent law firms, venture capital firms, start-up companies, and related settings.

Beyond Google is a 2-credit introduction to the six frameworks of information literacy for high education created by the Association of College and Research Libraries. Students learn the critical thinking skills necessary to identify, evaluate, and use diverse information sources to meet varied information needs.

This 2-credit course guides students toward critical thinking competencies and evaluative skills necessary for successful information-seeking strategies in workplace settings. By discovering and assessing a variety of career-specific information sources, students will explore how professional organizations develop questions to address problems of practice. Students will interrogate the contexts in which professionals create and disseminate knowledge; engage in fact-checking and other assessment activities; and address workplace issues through the effective use of relevant professional information sources.