Graduate Second-Year Administration Specialization
Field Goals and Objectives

The student will be expected to:

GOAL 1: Pursue professional self-development with a commitment to social justice and professional values and ethics.

Outcome Objectives
Fall Quarter:

1. Communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing.
2. Understand and use professional guidelines for confidentiality.
3. Understand issues, values, and processes related to potentially vulnerable and/or oppressed groups with a special focus on factors related to the rural environment.
4. Initiate discussions of self-evaluation with the field instructor and develop a concise learning agreement to strengthen performance.

1. Complete work in a timely way and facilitate the effective, efficient work of others.
2. Observe political and other environmental forces affecting family systems.

1. Understand and evaluate the impact of political and other environmental forces on program development and implementation.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of issues of diversity and multiculturalism and develop sensitivity to potentially vulnerable and/or oppressed groups in implementing and evaluating programs.
3. Demonstrate the ability to maintain professional confidentiality with regard to agency records and data.

GOAL 2: Illustrate "use of self" in relationship to client systems, the field instructor, and agency personnel with a particular appreciation for cultural and social diversity in rural environments.

Outcome Objectives
Fall Quarter:

1. Understand and effectively interact with the authority structures of the agency.
2. Understand, evaluate, and engage with the agency in communication processes.
3. Develop, for each project undertaken, a plan for addressing the concerns of a potential stakeholder.
4. Initiate a personal plan for developing skills in motivation, consultation, and conflict resolution.
Winter Quarter:
1. Anticipate how others will respond to self and use that knowledge to create desired impacts.
2. Work in conflictive situations and take appropriate steps to resolve conflict where possible.
3. Indicate awareness and utilization of the intricacies of the formal and informal communication structure.
4. Work with agency managers, committees, and boards in agency operations, planning, program monitoring and control, and program evaluation.
Spring Quarter:
1. Apply interpersonal skills such as motivation, consultation, supervision, and conflict management in planning, program monitoring and control, and program evaluation.
2. Be viewed as a valuable member of planning and implementation teams, reflecting professional knowledge and values.

GOAL 3: Promote integration of the agency and the community human service delivery system as resources in performing social work roles.

Outcome Objectives
Fall Quarter:

1. Apply an advanced understanding of the agency as a system in agency planning and evaluation processes.
2. Develop skill in working together with committees and boards.
Winter Quarter: Indicate a full understanding of the relationship of the agency to other community segments and use this understanding in work assignments.
Spring Quarter: Understand community structure, process, and needs as they relate to the agency and utilize this knowledge in performing grant writing and/or fund raising on behalf of family systems.

GOAL 4: Formulate and utilize the professional relationship in engaging and working with the client system to identify strengths and goals.

Outcome Objectives
Fall Quarter:

1. Understand and evaluate the relationship between the agency structure and the change process.
2. Recognize the impact of structural patterns on the work unit and on individual performance and use this understanding in accomplishing work tasks.
3. Assess the scientific and programmatic value of various surveys, reports, and other evaluative documents.
Winter Quarter:
1. Demonstrate sensitivity to the needs and special circumstances of under-represented and disadvantaged rural populations in policy formation and program evaluation.
2. Understand and apply knowledge about environmental, organizational, and political concepts and conditions to the agency fiscal accountability process.
3. Develop and utilize the management information system for purposes of problem identification, program monitoring, and program evaluation.
Spring Quarter:
1. Anticipate as many changes as possible which may affect program implementation and apply processes of program control and monitoring during the implementation phase.
2. Recognize the impact that organizational communication, patterns of decision making, participation, and other working conditions have on program planning and implementation and initiate a project to improve on some aspect of these.
3. Develop and utilize the management information system for purposes of problem identification, program monitoring, and program evaluation.

GOAL 5: Develop interventions which are culturally and age appropriate and which are sensitive to potentially vulnerable and/or oppressed groups, while working with individuals, families, small groups, organizations, and communities in rural environments.

Outcome Objectives
Fall Quarter:

1. Incorporate knowledge of organizational theory and system change while participating in agency program planning and program evaluation processes.
2. Develop broad skills in several aspects of personnel administration including recruitment, performance evaluation, staff and career development, job analysis, collective bargaining, and grievance handling, with special emphasis on factors related to the rural environment.
3. Prepare reports and other documents which exemplify high levels of competence.
Winter Quarter:
1. Develop sensitive agency standardization procedures.
2. Develop and utilize monitoring and control processes as well as management information systems.
3. Work with agency fiscal management processes and understand accountability in the policy-making processes.
Spring Quarter:
1. Initiate grant-writing activities and other fund-raising processes.
2. Develop operations planning processes, individually and through the cooperation of others, which meet identified organizational goals.
3. Utilize computer technologies in the processes of program monitoring and evaluation.

GOAL 6: Demonstrate the importance of and implications of transitions as they relate to diverse populations in multiple practice settings, particularly those in rural environments.

Outcome Objectives
Fall Quarter: Attend to the meaning of changes and endings related to administrative and policy issues.
Winter Quarter: See the need for and take appropriate steps as a part of the planning, implementation, and evaluation processes.
Spring Quarter:

1. Recognize the involvement of self in ending experiences and use the experiences for personal growth.
2. Plan future career goals that are the result of commitment to social work values, evaluation of strengths, and recognition of the importance of continuing education.

GOAL 7: Support evaluation and develop research skills and methods as necessary components of social work practice.

Outcome Objectives
Fall Quarter:

1. Analyze and utilize evaluation data in agency policy formation.
2. Apply common statistical and research knowledge to the evaluation of agency programs and processes.
Winter Quarter: Develop and implement research strategies for assessing effort, effectiveness, and efficiency as required by the agency.
Spring Quarter:
1. Develop and implement a program evaluation effort which incorporates multiple organizational units, data collection techniques, and data analytic strategies.
2. Prepare at least one report which interprets some interim or final results from the program evaluation effort in terms that are meaningful to the organization.