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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Free Elective/Certificate in Catholic Social Ministry course. Must be enrolled in MSW/Catholic Social Ministry Certificate program. This course examines the increasing gap between the nation's and the Church's challenge to American Catholics. Racial intolerance and poverty in our own country are considered. Peace and disarmament teaching are examined for their implications for spiritual living, teaching, and preaching.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Free Elective/Certificate in Catholic Social Ministry course. Must be enrolled in MSW/Catholic Social Ministry Certificate Program. This course provides a historical survey of the Catholic Church in the United States from the beginning to the present, with special emphasis on the church in Philadelphia, PA.
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3.00 Credits
Macro Practice Elective. Social Policy reflects the dominant political and economic ideologies of societies at distinctive moments in their social histories. This course focuses on the evolving nature of the socio-economic policy development process in economically advanced countries, but especially that of the United States. The course helps students draw on their current practice experiences to identify the unique contributions made by social workers to social and economic development (SED) policy development. Particular attention will be given to the range of SED policy "actors" and the dominant sectors of SED activity in development-oriented social work practice (e.g.housing, health care, income security, community development, etc.)
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3.00 Credits
Macro Practice Elective. This course provides an introduction to community organization and community capacity building. The course encompasses strategies, models, and techniques for the creation of organizations, the formation of federations of existing organizations; and coalition-building, all designed to address problems requiring institutional or policy changes or reallocation of resources to shift power and responsibility to those most negatively affected by current socioeconomic and cultural arrangements. The course emphasizes development of strategies and techniques to organize low-income minority residents of urban neighborhoods, and to organize disenfranchised groups across geographic boundaries as the first required steps in an empowerment process.
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3.00 Credits
Direct Practice Elective. Anxiety and depression are two of the most common mental disorders seen in social work clients, and frequently they occur concurrently. This course describes the medical and "physical" concomitants and psychosocial factors associated with both conditions and introduces diagnostic and assessment procedures and methods of intervention that social workers use in working with clients with these conditions. The course also consideers how culture, social class, gender, and other social differences affect the expression of these disorders and their concomitant treatment.
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3.00 Credits
Macro Practice Elective. Resilient organizations engage in a continuous process of self-review and refocusing. Referred to as "strategic planning," this process requires the active participation of a broad range of agency "stakeholders" who, in their work together, seek to realign the organization's goals, structures, and programs to make them more responsive to the changing needs of their service populations. Building on the content of foundation pratice courses, this course strengthens the student's capacity to engage in strategic planning and resource development with nonprofit organizations. The importance of organizational flexibility, innovation, and the creation of public-private partnerships is emphasized throughtout the course.
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3.00 Credits
Direct and Macro Practice Elective. The discourse on juvenile justice in the United States,once driven by themes of treatment and rehabilitation, has been dominated in recent years by vocabularies of punishment and incapacitation. The juvenile court, an enterprise founded by social reformers and the social work profession at the turn of the century to "save children," is now under severe political and legislative pressure to impose harsher penalties on younger and younger offenders who are increasingly portrayed as violent "super-predators," while its most vulnerable segments, children and youth, stand in greatest need of what a social service system can offer. Not surprisingly, those most likely to wind up under supervision are economically poor, under-educated, disproportionately of color and disproportionately at-risk to become victims of violent crimes. How does the profession situate itself in this discourse and what are individual social workers to do
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): SWRK715. Research Option. Action research is a form of social research that combines research with intervention. It is characterized by a collaborative relationship between the researcher and a client organization that is in an immediate problematic situation. The research process is directed toward addressing the problem situation and producing knowledge that contributes to the goals of social science. Action research is compatible with many of the values and principles of social work. This course also addresses issues of social work ethics and values encountered by the action researcher.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): SWRK715. Research Option. This course provides graduate social work students with research knowledge and skills aimed at enhancing their direct practice with clients. The course examines methods of assessment, methods for choosing and evaluating techniques of intervention, methods for determining the effectiveness of practice and the use of research in social work decisionmaking.A successful outcome of the course will be that students perceive a more positive relationship between research and social work practice and possess a set of tools that they will be able to utilize in their future careers as social workers. The course starts from an assumption that students have some familiarity with research and are primarily engaged in direct practice with individuals, families or groups.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): SWRK715. Research Option. This course introduces the process of policy analysis, stressing the joint use of qualitative and quantitative methods. Targeted to both the social work activist and the social worker within the agency, the course first explores how and why policy analyses are used and then introduces specific techniques. Methods will be illustrated through examples of policy research. These examples improve students' skills in understanding how policy analyses may directly impact who they serve and the resources available to those they serve. Assignments develop research skills while allowing students to use methods most suited to their interests. Specific techniques discussed include interviewing, observation, descriptive data analysis, researching the legislative process, cost-benefit analysis, and simple quantitative models. Combining techniques allows for more complete discussions of process evaluation, social experiments, and discriminating between alternative policies.
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