Social work:
Helping people through counseling, advocacy and community practice.

Practice Experiences

Practicums

Practice experience in the community enhances your  classroom education.

Bethel offers a unique experience of having a junior and senior level practicum placement. This gives students the opportunity to explore multiple areas of interest.

You can expect to graduate from Bethel College with confidence that your practicum experiences have prepared you to step right into a career or be successful at graduate school.

Examples of recent practicum settings and populations include:

  • Schools
  • Poverty prevention, community resource centers, housing and food equity
  • Medical, hospital, clinic
  • Mental health
  • Disabilities and special needs
  • Addictions
  • Policy advocacy and community organizing
  • Child advocacy
  • Early childhood education
  • Child welfare, adoption, foster care, family preservation
  • Retirement communities
  • Criminal or Restorative justice
  • LGBTQ+ and gender equity
  • Criminal and restorative justice
  • Immigration and refugee resettlement
  • Hospice