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3.00 Credits
An opportunity for students to participate in internships and service learning experiences within the Hispanic Community of Central Massachusetts. Integrated into the senior capstone experience.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the historical, philosophical, and value background of social welfare, the definition of social work, its issues, problems and opportunities. Prerequisite: SOC 201.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the relationships among environmental issues, social concerns, and economics by engaging in a values-centered study plan rooted in the Catholic mission of the College. Analysis of environmental problems takes a social justice perspective and uses the data, models, and methods of both social work and environmental science. Students explore how the benefits and burdens of human-environmental interactions are distributed locally and intentionally, and with respect to differences in ethnicity, income, sex, and age. Students formulate strategies to prevent and remedy environmental equity problems by influencing the policies and operations of social systems. Field trips and speakers provide additional exposure to current issues.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the social, psychological, and institutional implications of race and culture as dynamic forces influencing social work and human service delivery. This course will familiarize students with a theoretical overview of race and racism, historical and current manifestations of racism, racial identity formation, fundamentals of cultural competence, and effective strategies for promoting anti-racist and anti-oppressive social work practice.
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3.00 Credits
Provides students with knowledge of contemporary social problems. The selected social problem may change from year to year. Identified social problems will be studied from ecological, historical and social work perspectives. Topics will include ethical implications of these problems, governmental role in setting policies, and the impact of these problems on individuals, families, groups, and communities. Students will develop potential social work strategies for addressing these problems with a focus on micro, macro, and mezzo practice.
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3.00 Credits
Provides students with knowledge of the Court system in Massachusetts. Develops student skills in writing reports that will be used by judges in Probate and Family Court and the Juvenile Court to assist them in their decision-making on matters before the Courts. Areas to be explored include Massachusetts General Laws, confidentiality, rights of children and parents, burden of proof, best interest of the child, and authority of the investigator. Students will examine writings for case file documentation, Guardian Ad Litem reporting, and Care and Protection investigation reporting
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3.00 Credits
Examines the policies, programs, issues, and problems that social workers confront. Encourages the student to develop critical and analytical skill in examining our present policies and in considering possible alternatives. Prerequisite: SWK 242.
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3.00 Credits
Provides the conceptual framework of generic social work practice. This first course in the methods sequence introduces the concept that methods to be used in a given situation depend on the needs and preference of the client as well as on the skills of the social worker. It teaches the basic macro- and micro-interventive skills, techniques, and processes required for the sound practice of social work at the beginning of the professional level. Focus is on professional and personal values and knowledge of self. Open to social work majors only.
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3.00 Credits
Studies in depth the physical, psychological and cultural forces affecting any human situation on the assumption that any human situation can be most fully understood by taking these forces into account. the physical, Provides the student with the opportunity of integrating knowledge from courses in biology, psychology and sociology. Using a life span approach, the first semester covers the prenatal period through the school age child. The second semester covers adolescence through the aging years and death. Prerequisites: BIO 112, 113; SOC 201
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3.00 Credits
Provides the student with an introduction to child maltreatment; includes a historical perspective, the various types of child abuse and neglect, and contributing factors. In addition, this elective course will include a discussion of the child welfare system, child welfare legislation, child abuse and neglect reporting laws and procedures. Students will examine the current Department of Social Services system and will learn about the process by which children come into the care of the state. The legal and emotional implications of foster care placement, termination of parental rights, and the adoption of older children will be a focus. Open to all students.
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