The Department of Social Work asks agencies to serve as field placement sites when it believes the agency offers potential for providing high quality field experiences for students.  Agencies are expected to provide a variety of learning experiences representing the breadth of social work practice.  Agencies are also expected to support the field instructors who provide this service to the profession.  Prospective field agencies will be evaluated in terms of their consonance with our social work program’s goals, objectives, and mission; their appropriateness for specific learning experiences; their ability to provide educationally directed field instruction; and their clear articulation of intern learning in proposed tasks to be assigned.