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3.00 Credits
Defines, describes, and analyzes the legal situation of children in an adult-oriented society. Investigates children's rights with respect to major societal institutions, such as family, schools, the justice system, and the welfare system. Assesses societal attitudes, values, and beliefs to determine their impact upon the legal position of the child within these social systems. Explores current issues in adoption, abortion rights, and deinstitutionalization.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SWK 201. Examines the policy-making process in social welfare, from policy formulation and development to implementation and impact. Reviews major social welfare policy developments in U.S. history, such as income security, health care and civil rights. Emphasizes conceptual and analytic models for policy development and evaluation in relation to social work's commitment to serving populations at risk and promoting global social and economic justice.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Comparative analysis of selected theories of human behavior in the social environment through the life cycle for the purpose of understanding criteria for selection, use, and integration of theory and social intervention.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Comparative study of human behavior within the contexts of formal and informal social systems (families, small groups, neighborhoods, organizations), focusing on the relationship between social environment and human behavior.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SWK 201. Prerequisite to SWK 305. Introduction to the philosophy and methodology of science; acquaints the student with research techniques, strategies, and resources; develops critical readership ability; promotes consumership of research findings in social-work practice; instructs in the ethical and political considerations which are inherent in research. The course also provides students with skills to develop field research proposals.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SWK 304. This course builds on the knowledge acquired in Perspectives on Social Work Research I. This class aims to expand students' understanding of quantitative and qualitative methodologies and techniques and skills for data collection and management. It also aims to provide students with computer skills for text and data processing and data processing techniques for descriptive and inferential statistics from research data. This course will expand students' knowledge and skills for social-work practice-related research and evaluation.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an opportunity to become familiar with legislative process, litigation and the courts, and administrative law; analysis of the relationship between individual rights and human services, including mental-health law, juvenile, narcotics, and housing laws.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite SWK 240. Juvenile and adult correctional settings are explored. Study of the modes of organization and management which are applicable to correctional settings, examination of the resources and constraints in current community-based corrections practice as an alternative to incarceration, emphasis on current theory and innovative approaches in various countries.
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3.00 Credits
Overview of how the legal system deals with persons convicted of a crime or in the custody of correctional facilities, the correctional process itself as it relates to interests of defendants as well as to the interests of society, how correctional authorities mediate between these two interests and to whom they are accountable.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite to SWK 385. This course is the first of the Intervention sequence, which prepares social work majors for generalist social work practice. It is designed to develop and enhance the students' knowledge, skills and affective development in forming working relationships necessary for generalist social work practice with individuals, families, small groups, organizations, and communities within a diverse society.
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