CAST 477 - CAST Capstone Experience

(3 credits)

This course is the Capstone student experience for the Child Advocacy Studies minor and includes 64 hours of supervised professional work experience coupled with online/asynchronous coursework. Students will be expected to engage with content and lectures related to professional practice issues such as self-care, appropriate boundaries, empathy, current issues impacting children including mental health, neurodivergence, and how diet impacts mood and behavior. Students will apply child advocacy concepts to their experiential learning through participation in online discussion boards and a final written reflection of their fieldwork with children and families. All fieldwork is arranged by the department and supervised. Prerequisites: CAST 301 - Perspectives on Child Maltreatment and Child Advocacy,

CAST 302 - Global Child Advocacy Issues

and declared CAST minor. Recommended prerequisites: CAST 401 - Professional and System Responses to Child Maltreatment and CAST 402 - Responding to the Survivor of Child Abuse and Survivor Responses. P/NC only. Offered each semester.

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