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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on developing computer literacy in applications that are relevant to social work practice and research. Computer applications include word processing, data management, and other uses relevant to monitoring direct practice and evaluating agency programs and services. A lab component is offered to provide students with hands-on experience with computers.
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3.00 Credits
The focus of this course is on social welfare programs and services, legislation and policies in child welfare as they relate to children with special needs and their families.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SW 200, 201, ECO 211, and PS 135. This course focuses on the policy formulation process and evaluates its components. The interaction and relationship between and among the pluralistic social, political, and economic systems and sub-systems of society are analyzed. Emphasis is placed upon the egalitarian and humanitarian values that contribute to mutual aid and social justice. Additionally, the course assesses the underlying factors that influence definitions of social problems needing private and/or public solutions. The role that human diversity plays in influencing the social welfare policy decision making and implementation processes is discussed. The scientific research process and its role in the policy arena are considered.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SW 200, 210, 301; Corequisite: SW 302. (Restricted to majors only). This course is the first of the required practice courses designed to provide the necessary knowledge, skills, and values and ethics to prepare students to function as generalist social work practitioners. It focuses on the relationship-building and problem-solving skills necessary for social work practice with individuals, families, and groups.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the historical development and contributions that have provided the foundation to the Black experience in social work. It discusses the unique manner in which African Americans practice "Black experience-based social work." Based on the spiritual and blues traditions, the course offers social work techniques to work with African American individuals, families, groups, and communities. The roles of African American people in social work are explored. Emphasized are such factors as education, housing, family, employment, and the impact of racism.
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3.00 Credits
A broad survey of the administrative and management theories associated with the knowledge base of the social work profession. This course focuses on organizational and agency structure in relation to the delivery of services. It develops leadership skills and a systematic approach to management of work loads. Theories of management and motivation are considered in relationship to operation of organizations and agencies.
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3.00 Credits
As one of the primary social work methods of practice, community organization is experiencing a revival in urban and rural areas in this country. This course assists social workers and other helping professionals respond to the resurgence of interest in this area. The focus is on "the community as the client" and itis both didactic and experiential in structure. The history, theories, and models of community organization practice are reviewed. The functions and roles of human service professionals in macro practice are examined. The primary emphasis is on the areas of practice and strategic practice approaches.
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3.00 Credits
Description and analysis of laws and court decisions relating to social, economic and legal problems in American society. The legislative process for addressing these problems is also studied.
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3.00 Credits
Social work students develop skills in using learning theory to modify human behavior. This course introduces a practical approach to assessment and intervention in achieving stabilization and behavioral change. The focus is upon overt behavior exhibited by clients whom the social worker encounters in practice.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation of those social, psychological, educational, and/or economic factors which influence teenagers toward sexual activity, pregnancy, marriage, pregnancy termination, etc. Emphasis is also placed on functional research relative to understanding the adolescent mind in urban centers, the unique problems and needs of the adolescent, and those social services in urban centers which attempt to meet the needs of adolescents.
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