This course is designed to familiarize students with common types of supervision found in social impact settings. The course will present fundamental knowledge and skills needed to effectively engage in supervisory relationships, both as a supervisor and as a supervisee. Students will learn strategies for effective supervision, learn to handle conflict in and across workplace settings, and develop skills needed to support and assess performance of employees and contractors.
Objectives
- Compare supervision models and best practices for applying each model to the field of social work/social work setting.
- Examine behavioral examples of effective supervision strategies.
- Identify strategies to effectively manage conflict in and across workplace settings.
- Explore characteristics of effective performance appraisals.
- Apply ethical decision making as it applies to supervision.
Design
This course will use multiple methods including but not limited to lectures, demonstrations, readings, discussions, assignments, individual and group exercises. The primary pedagogy will be experiential, with hands-on applications of real world situations arising in the field. The course will be graded satisfactory/unsatisfactory.
Intensive Focus on Privilege, Oppression, Diversity and Social Justice (PODS)
This course integrates PODS content and skills with a special emphasis on the identification of theories, practice and/or policies that promote social justice, illuminate injustices and are consistent with scientific and professional knowledge. Through the use of a variety of instructional methods, this course will support students developing a vision of social justice, learn to recognize and reduce mechanisms that support oppression and injustice, work toward social justice processes, apply intersectionality and intercultural frameworks and strengthen critical consciousness, self-knowledge and self-awareness to facilitate PODS learning.
Issues related to privilege, oppression, diversity, and social justice will be explored in this course through an investigation of the supervisory role, as well as the dynamics and power associated with the supervisory relationship. This course will focus on providing students tools to consider the impact of identity on such a relationship and will explore frameworks of inclusion and anti-racism as they relate to supervision.