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4.00 Credits
4, 4 s.h. The field practicum component for senior social work students involves 200 clock hours per semester of direct service in a human service agency. Working under social work supervision, students are provided with structured learning opportunities that permit them to apply the knowledge, skills, and values of generalist social work practice in working with client systems of all sizes (individuals, groups, agencies, and communities). Students practice and refine skills in assessment, interviewing, problem solving, goal formulation and contracting, data collection, and evaluation within the context of the agency and the profession's values and ethics. Students are expected to effectively seek out and use supervision, conduct themselves professionally, and to demonstrate an active appreciation and respect for the positive value of diversity. Students are placed at their assigned practicum site fifteen hours per week for two consecutive semesters (400 hours minimum). The accompanying SW 4850/4950 Field Seminar I and II serve as the capstone courses in which students demonstrate competence in the knowledge, values, and skills of generalist beginning level social work. At the completion of this course students are prepared for beginning level Generalist Practice and/or graduate social work studies. Prerequisites: SW 2390; SW 4140; SW 3700 for 4800; SW 4350 and SW 4800 for 4900; admission to the Social Work Program; and permission to register for field. Co-requisites: SW 4850 with 4800, SW 4950 with 4900.
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2.00 Credits
2 s.h. This is a weekly integrative seminar taken concurrently with Field Practicum I and II (SW 4800 and SW 4900). Students are expected to share and reflect upon the experiences and challenges of their field practicum. The focus is on evaluating and supporting the student's integration and application of the knowledge, skills, and values of generalist social work practice (learned throughout the social work curriculum) to agency practice and their beginning work with client systems. Students are expected to demonstrate the professional use of self, self-awareness, and an appreciation of diversity particularly as it relates to practice with populations at risk including people of color, women, the disabled, and gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered clients. Agency data, reports, forms, etc., are reviewed to further develop skills in research and program and practice evaluation strategies. Prerequisites: SW 3700 for 4850; SW 4350 and SW 4850 for 4950; admission to the Social Work Program; and permission to register for field practicum. Co-requisites: SW 4800 with 4850; SW 4900 with 4950.
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4.00 Credits
4 s.h. Prepares the student to be an educated consumer of social work and social science research studies and provides them with skills and knowledge necessary to perform basic research and program evaluation studies. Students are oriented to the research process; quantitative and qualitative methodologies as well as ethical considerations in conducting research with human subjects. Emphasis is placed upon applied research skills such as data collection, entry, and analysis, culminating in a final, original research project that demonstrates knowledge in all steps of the research process. Prerequisites: SW 4500, CIS 2380 and admission to the Social Work Program.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. An in-depth survey of the Catholic Faith covering such basic elements as the founding of the Church, the nature of the Church as an historical community, the Church as the covenant of God, the Church in relation to Christ, the sacraments with special emphasis on the Eucharist, the relation of Scripture to the believing Catholic, the four marks of the Church, and the covenantal order of Salvation. Additional focus on the major religious distinctions between Catholicism and Protestantism and on topics from the Catholic moral tradition, particularly sin, conscience, and virtue.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. A study of moral and ethical issues and the implication of human acts from a Christian perspective, including several issues within the field of medicine and bio-ethics, military ethics, and business ethics. Study of ethical schools of thought. Issues are examined in light of the Christian meaning of the person and human community.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. An examination of the history of the Catholic Church from its earliest beginnings in Palestine through the Second Vatican Council. All major and significant episodes of the history of the Church are covered, with more in-depth study of the Crusades and the Protestant Reformation. Students are also provided some familiarity with Christian thinkers who have made significant contributions to Church doctrine and theology.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. Introductory theology course focusing on the revelation of God to Israel and the Church. Hebrew ideas contrasted to ancient pagan views, the revelation of God to persons in the Old Testament, the New Testament and Christianity as the fulfillment of Old Testament expectations, the relationship of the Bible to the Church, and the person of Christ as the final and fullest Revelation of God to humankind.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. An introductory course on the Hebrew Scriptures: the various literary traditions that comprise the Old Testament, Hebrew theology of the covenant, history, and humanity's relationship with God in terms of election, sin, and redemption. Primary focus on the first five books of the Old Testament, the Davidic kingship, and the major prophets.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. Basic overview of the scriptures of the Christian religion: the four Gospels, with attention paid to the development of the New Testament canon, the Bible in the early Church, theological themes and issues of each Gospel, and the Gospel narrative itself; the letters of Paul and the catholic letters, their authorship, dating, development, importance to the Church community, theological themes, issues, and categories; and the Book of Revelation.
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