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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: SOCI 304, approval of instructor, and department. For senior honors candidates and other qualified senior majors. Intensive reading and research in a selected field of sociology.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the processes that influence the development of social policy and social services. Included are legislative and political processes, models of policy analysis, service delivery and policy implementation. Effects of these on people are considered from global, political, economic and social policy perspectives. This course is developed around the general proposition that social workers utilize knowledge and skills to carry out roles and functions critical for practice. Such knowledge and skills include the application of social policy analysis, the legislative process, the role and impact of politics and political choice on the quality of life of people, and the effect of economic-social policy decision and judicial actions on social services. In addition, the course examines the variability of the common and uncommon attributes of service delivery systems.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores current thinking about domestic violence and its impact on adult participants, children and families. Emphasis is placed on understanding theories about what causes domestic violence and effective intervention strategies for eliminating violence in families. Topics include socio-cultural, intrapersonal, and interpersonal explanations for domestic violence, the co-occurrence of domestic violence and child abuse, and strategies for effective intervention with batterers, victims, and children.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of social work intervention services from historical, theoretical, and practice perspectives. Services to children and their families are divided into support services which enhance family life, supplemental services that help struggling families to maintain or regain their functioning, and substitute services that provide for the child on a temporary or permanent basis when the family cannot do so. Each service is considered in terms of need, rationale, provision of service, diverse populations, consumer views of service, and social trends that may affect future provision of the service.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to explore the epidemiology, prevalence, and culture of embeddedness of polydrug use and abuse among college students and inner-city residents. Students will compare and contrast the sociopolitical, sociocognitive, legal, and economic processes that contribute to high risk health behaviors in college and inner-city communities. Participants will develop an understanding of how one’s family, friends and current systemic anti-drug initiatives come to shape high-risk health behavior patterns. Panel presentations by former polydrug users from each community will be held with a focus on developing creative solutions for a growing problem.
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3.00 Credits
Unlike adult crimes, most juvenile delinquency is committed in groups. The aim of this course is to examine national and local gang dynamics within the context of weapon availability, drug markets, turf issues, and the economy. The rapidly changing social variables of race, social class, migration, and immigration are explored relative to gang membership, chronic gang problems, and solutions.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of communication skills with Tibetan refugees living in India and the conditions under which they live. Their life and culture will be addressed with special attention to the implications for their social and human welfare. This course will include the fundamentals of spoken and classical Tibetan. Students will have the option of participating in a four week trip to north India to work with the Tibetan refugee population in exile in a project co-sponsored by The School of Social Work titled “Compassion in Action.â€
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce the student to Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan culture, the historical and current political situation in Tibet, and the social service needs of the Tibetan refugee population living in exile in India. An optional component of the course is a four week journey to India to engage fully with the Tibetan Refugee population. The course will incorporate films, guest speakers, readings, class discussion, student presentations and basic Tibetan meditation practices to provide a comprehensive overview of this rich and varied system and people.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the Tibetan refugee life and the struggle to preserve their culture and way of life. We will also analyze the transformation of Tibet in the Western imagination and appropriation of Tibetan culture and their consequences for Tibetan people. How does the Tibetan refugee life affect the democratization of Tibetan society and internationalization of Tibetan issue? In order to answer these questions, we will explore a history of social movements taking place in Tibetan communities and on international platforms. Our study will be rooted in a broad variety of literary genres including historical accounts, autobiographies, and documentary films.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores human sexual functioning in the context of self in relationship to others and community. It provides content on various aspects of sexual behavior, problems and difficulties, and diversity of sexual experience. Grounded in the human services, ethical and professional values are considered and discussed throughout the course. The course format includes professor lecture, student discussions and presentations, role-play, and use of films. Discussion of central issues and introduction to treatment approaches are encouraged in class. Guest lecturers who are experts in various areas of human sexuality and sex disorders will provide additional content.
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