COURSE SYLLABUS
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL WORK: SWK 1206-N02
May 20th – July 17th 2014
Meeting Day and Time: Tuesday and Thursday – 10am-11:50am
Building 12, Room 375
Instructor: Nkechi Green MSW, LMSW
Email: nkechi.green@sinclair.edu or Angel
Department Website: www.sinclair.edu/departments/soc
Department phone: Administrative Assistant 512-2944
Text:
Social Work, an Empowering Profession, 8th. Ed. DuBuois, B. and Miley, K (2011), Allyn & Bacon
Composition Notebook: Please purchase one for your Journal Entries
Course Description:
Explore how historical events have shaped the social work profession. Recognize personal values in the context of one 's practice as social worker and identify roles …show more content…
Plagiarism--representing another person 's work as your own--is unethical behavior and will not be tolerated. Cheating in any form (including plagiarism) will result in zero points for the assignment. Students are expected to abide by the Sinclair Honor Code: “As a member of the Sinclair College community of students, faculty and staff, I will uphold the values of citizenship, social-responsibility, and personal accountability. I will maintain the highest standards of professional and academic ethics. I will uphold my personal integrity, dignity, and self-respect by being fair and honest at all times and by treating all individuals with respect. By honoring these ideals, I will be building a better future for myself, my college, and my local, regional, and global …show more content…
At the discretion of the instructor the penalty for plagiarism may be a grade of zero credit, "F" with no opportunity for a rewrite. Subsequent plagiarism, at the discretion of the instructor, shall be grounds for failure of the course.
There are a variety of types of plagiarism; common types include:
a. Student submits a paper wholly or in substantial part using the exact phrasing of source material. In-text parenthetical documentation and quotation marks fail to make clear the degree of borrowing.
b. Student submits a paper closely paraphrased from source material, i.e. the original source material is simply edited with perhaps minor word changes occurring. There is an absence of reorganization of the source.
Example: Source says, "The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity."
Plagiarized condensation says, "The inflated style is a kind of euphemism. A bunch of Latin terms falls on the facts like soft snow. The opponent of clear language is, thus,