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  • 3.00 Credits

    Social Welfare Development and Policy Analysis Provides development of analytical frameworks for understanding the processes of policy formation, factors shaping policy decisions, the content of program designs, and the performances of social welfare policy and service programs. Examines voluntary and proprietary systems in the development of knowledge and skills for the engagement of complex community resources, the promotion of service innovations, and the shaping of decisions in the arenas of public policy. Emphasizes diverse populations in metropolitan environments. Prerequisites: POLS 121 or HIST 132, and SCWK 300.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Social Work Interviewing: Strategies and Techniques Introduces the study and practice of interpersonal professional interaction skills within the framework of a social work helping process. Focuses on developing skills in professional observation, communication, interviewing, recording, and reporting. Course is didactic as well as interactive and includes an integrated laboratory component focusing on experiential learning. Required for social work majors. Prerequisite: SCWK 201.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Human Sexuality Cross-listed as WOMS 340. Provides a forum for information and discussion on topics relating to physical, psycho-social, and cultural components of human sexuality. Includes female and male sexual attributes and roles, sexual problems, alternate lifestyles, birth control, values, and sexuality and cultural components of sexuality.
  • 3.00 Credits

    SCWK 351. Social Work Research I Provides an introduction to social work research methods. Qualitative and quantitative methodologies are examined. Provides a foundation for advanced social work research (SCWK 451).
  • 3.00 Credits

    Person in Society I Provides a beginning theoretical framework within which the integration of prior knowledge can be made regarding physical, mental, and social development of the human being, perspectives on American culture and subcultural variations and their effects on human adaptability in the social environment, and the relationship of those entities to beginning professional social work practice. Prerequisite: school approved human diversity course (3 cr).
  • 3.00 Credits

    SCWK 401. Generalist Practice I Focuses on developing generalist social work practice knowledge and skills at the group, organizational, and community levels. Presents macro practice roles and skills and links to group and individual practice skills for beginning-level social work interventions with systems of all sizes. Prerequisite: SCWK 302 and admission to practicum. Corequisite: SCWK 402.
  • 4.00 Credits

    SCWK 402. Practicum I Placement in community social service agencies for supervised periods of observation and direct service assignments emphasizing performance of basic practice skills and understanding of the social service agency and its role in the community service network. Prerequisites: SCWK 302 and program consent. Corequisite: SCWK 401 except by program consent.
  • 3.00 Credits

    SCWK 403. Generalist Practice II Approach emphasizing problem solving, assessment, and the knowledge and skills of generalist practice. Focuses on skills, ethics, techniques, and processes of social work practice with individuals, families, and groups. Prerequisite: SCWK 401. Corequisite: SCWK 404 except by program consent.
  • 3.00 - 4.00 Credits

    SCWK 404. Practicum II Placement in community social service agencies for supervised direct service assignments emphasizing formulation of appropriate goals. Includes the selection of various social work roles and in-depth development of techniques and skills common to practice in the social service field. Prerequisite: SCWK 402. Corequisite: SCWK 403.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Children and Family Policy and Practice Provides knowledge and intervention skills for social work professionals involved in providing services to children when childcare within the family is temporarily or permanently disrupted. Special emphasis on risk assessment and permanency for children, identification of environmental factors that contribute to neglect and violence in families, legal procedures for Child in Need of Care (CINC) and juvenile offender cases, foster care, family preservation, adoption, children with special needs, and sexual abuse.
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