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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Explores the complexities of large organizations and bureaucratic systems. Examines formal and informal structures, communication patterns, and philosophical approaches as these affect the effectiveness and efficiency of services delivery, worker motivation, and resource procurement and allocation. Accomplishes the objectives of the course through the application of diverse organizational and diffusion theories and perspectives as a means to increase students' understanding of their practicum experiences in the policy, planning, and administration concentration. Prerequisite: Passing Qualifying Review or permission of Academic Standards Committee.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to the range of issues, knowledge, and skills required in designing, planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs. Students build on knowledge obtained in other concentration courses. Integrates the course focus through the development of a comprehensive program proposal for the students' practicum agency or other identified community group. Prerequisite: Pass qualifying examination, or permission of the Academic Standards Committee.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the supervisory process in relation to clinical, administrative, educational, and supportive functions. Emphasizes supervisory knowledge, skills, and techniques necessary for the development of staff capable of functioning creatively and independently.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the complexities of human-resources management in large organizations and/or with diverse employee populations. Strengthens students' knowledge and professional decision-making relative to the implementation of federal, state, and local policies (i.e., affirmative action, nondiscrimination, sexual harassment, etc.). Permission of instructor required for students not in the policy/administration concentration. Prerequisite: Pass qualifying examination, or permission of the Academic Standards Committee.
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3.00 Credits
Selective course, taken to supplement SOWK 676A, deepens students' exposure to leading-edge discussions on the legal and ethical aspects of human-resources management and contemporary issues affecting morale and productivity in today's work environments (e.g., familial dysfunction of employees, single-parent families, care-provider roles of employees, and coworker violence). Learning supported through guest speakers and panel discussions. Permission of instructor required for registration by students not in the policy, planning, and administration concentration.
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2.00 Credits
Provides an opportunity to integrate advanced courses with individuals (SOWK 663) and groups (SOWK 665) by furthering the application of in-depth psychodynamic analysis of mentally ill individuals. Identifies specific themes of intrapsychic dilemmas and treatment interventions. Students enhance their analytic writing and verbal skills via presentations based on the bio-psycho-social-spiritual perspective of psychopathologies to be encountered as a clinical social worker. Expands the body of knowledge of social work students who are interested in cultivating expertise in clinical social work via advanced training institutes and/or a doctoral program. Prerequisite: SOWK 663, SOWK 665.
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2.00 Credits
Required of students with advanced standing. Students complete 200 hours of practicum and 20 hours of practicum seminar. Designed to provide a bridge quarter to integrate the B.S.W. degree experience with the second year of the M.S.W. degree program. Emphasizes reviewing the knowledge, values, and skills of generalist social work practice; and defines the additional competencies required for advanced practice. Assists instructor and students in identifying and addressing individualized needs for further development, including application of professional ethics and judgment, use of self as a therapeutic tool, and self-awareness. At the culmination of this course, students also formulate conceptual and experiential learning objectives for their second year of study.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Provides an opportunity to participate in an international institute featuring world leaders in psychiatric care. Topics include: world diagnostic guidelines, psychotropic medications and issues in treating ethnic populations, spirituality and psychiatry, transpersonal psychiatry in theory and practice, multidisciplinary teams in the practice of mental health services, and problems of mental health in immigrant populations. Students registering for 1 unit participate in ten hours of lecture including a pre- and post-session. Those taking 2 units also develop a major paper on one of the institute topics.
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2.00 Credits
Provides students with an understanding of the major social-policy issues affecting the current organization and delivery of human services for children and families. Analyzes current debates about the tensions between social policy and the doctrine of family privacy, with attention to the legal basis of state interventions and judicial decisions affecting family relationships, including parent to parent and child to parent.
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2.00 Credits
Provides a conceptual understanding of the development and organization of the health and mental health systems within institutional and community-based settings as they stem from national and local policy perspectives. Considers major issues dealing with the economics of health, health planning, and health legislation. Reviews health and mental health programs based on selected cross-national comparisons.
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