Center for Global Education and Experience

BSW Mexico Consortium

The Social Work in a Latin American Context program sends a visiting faculty member to Cuernavaca, Mexico for the duration of the spring semester.  The visiting faculty member is responsible directly to the BSW Mexico Consortium during his/her tenure, acting through its administrative agent, the Center for Global Education and Experience (CGEE) at Augsburg University. The visiting faculty member is selected for a one-year term (with the spring semester of it spent in Mexico).  The visiting faculty member may choose to serve for a second year of service.  The visiting faculty member is selected by a selection committee made up of members of the BSW Mexico Program Managing Committee.
 
The visiting faculty position is full-time during the spring semester of the year of the appointment, permitting only limited time for research and other personal projects. 

Total course load is three (see syllabi):

• SWK 271: Comparative Social Policy (co-taught with CGEE staff who can focus on Mexican policies)
• SWK 316: Social Work with Groups and Families: Theory and Practice
• SWK 317: Social Work Field Experience (co-taught with CGEE field site coordinator)

• Round trip travel to/from Mexico
• The cost of round trip airfare for one guest during your stay in Cuernavaca
• Housing will be arranged and cost covered by Augsburg CGEE
• Group meals with students
• International health and travel insurance (does not cover routine care or pre-existing conditions) 

Responsibilities

Prior to the program

• Make an orientation visit during the spring of the year prior to teaching, if needed.
• Attend compliance training on accessibility, safety and security, sexual misconduct and privacy.
• Attend BSW Mexico Consortium planning meetings.
• ​Review/revise the syllabi for the Field Experience Course, the Group and Family Work Practice Course, and the Comparative Social Policy Course and submit to the Site Director in Mexico for review and the Executive Committee for approval in the fall prior to your teaching semester.

During the program

• Teach the following three courses in a collaborative fashion with the Mexico faculty and staff team, who will set up and translate for the experiential components of those courses: 

  • Social Work with Groups and Families:  Theory and Practice (SWK 316),

  • Comparative Social Policy course (SWK 271), and

  • Social Work Field Experience course (SWK 317).  Please note that the Mexican Internship Coordinator will assist with set up all of the fieldwork placements. 

• Collaborate with Mexico staff in the planning of the weekly schedule of activities through participation in pre-semester planning meetings weekly meetings with the Social Work semester program team.

• Attend the guest speaker, excursions, and other experiential activities with students and incorporate reflections upon these experiences into your class sessions and into students’ assignments.  (With a few exceptions, most of these speakers and excursions will be on week days.)

• Hold weekly office hours.

• Meet with and advise students as needed.

• Participate in mid-term and end-of-semester course evaluation and program evaluation.

• Complete a 1-page report for each of your courses regarding what worked well, what didn’t, and what changes you recommend for the following year.

After the program

• Stay in Cuernavaca for at least two work days after the end of the semester in order to participate in a half-day evaluation meeting with the site director and the rest of the Social Work semester team and in a half-day meeting with the members of the Mexican Social Work Advisory Council.   
• Submit grades by the required dates and format.