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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
The Social Work and Family Studies Department sponsors a study tour to New York City yearly during Thanksgiving vacation and a study tour to Europe every other summer. The objectives of these tours are to facilitate a better understanding of peoples and cultures and to enable the participants to work with people more effectively. The fall trip to New York City focuses on ethnicity, social problems, urban change, and social agencies (1 or 2 hours). The European tour focuses on a comparison of cultures, current issues, and social policies (6 hours). Fees are assessed to cover the expenses of each tour.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: BIOL 103; SOCI 125; PSYC 122; SOCW 211. Co-requisite: SOCW 314. First of a two-course HBSE sequence is a study on the reciprocal relationships between human behavior and the social environment from birth through young adulthood. Content will include empirically-based theories and knowledge that focus on the biological, sociological, cultural, psychological, and spiritual development of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. The course will follow a life cycle model from a systems perspective. (Fall)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCW 311. Second of a two-course HBSE sequence is a study on the reciprocal relationships between human behavior and the social environment from middle to later adulthood. Content will include empirically-based theories and knowledge that focus on the biological, sociological, cultural, psychological and spiritual development of middle and later adults. The course will follow a life cycle model from a systems perspective. (Winter)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: BIOL 103; SOCW 211, 212, 213; Co-requisite: SOCW 318. Provides students with theoretical framework for generalist social work practice. Topics include the establishment of relationship, assessment, contracts, intervention, utilization of resources, social work values and ethics. Work with individuals and families, primarily the micro dimension of social work practice, is emphasized in this first semester of a threesemester practice sequence. Social Work practice courses can only be taken by non-social work majors if ALL prerequisites have been completed. (Fall)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOCW 314, 318. A continuation of SOCW 314. The primary focus is on working with small groups and families, the mezzo dimension of social work practice, in this second semester of a three-semester practice sequence. This course focuses on strengths, capacities, and resources of client systems as they relate with their broader environments. Students learn to engage clients; identify issues, needs, strengths, and resources; collect and assess information; and plan service delivery. Practice content also includes identifying, analyzing, and implementing empirically-based interventions design to achieve client goals, and evaluating their effectiveness. Social Work practice courses can only be taken by non-social work majors if ALL prerequisites have been completed. (Winter)
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1.00 Credits
Co-requisite: SOCW 314. This skills lab provides students with direct field work experiences in social services agencies in the greater Chattanooga community. These field work experiences include application of assessment, intervention, and individual/family and group counseling skills. This class is to be taken concurrently with SOCW 314. (Fall)
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of the child welfare system in the United States from a generalist perspective. The history of the development of the continuum of child welfare services will be examined. Information on at-risk families, child abuse and neglect, foster care and adoption will be provided. The course will also review the social and organizational systems that are responsible for the delivery of child welfare services, and ways that social workers can influence these systems. Emphasis will be placed on increasing sensitivity to racial and cultural factors that affect the provision of child welfare services to various populations and the implications for practice. The organization and delivery of child welfare services in Tennessee will be discussed. (Fall)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SOCW 326 This course is the second in a series of two courses offered as part of the TN Child Welfare Certification Program. It is designed to assist students in acquiring the practice skills to become culturally competent child welfare workers. The course will analyze the practices of various human/social service agencies that provide preventative, case management, out of home care, treatment, and rehabilitative services aimed at children, youth, and families. The roles of social services in the broad context of formal and informal systems that influence the life course of the child will be addressed. This course will prepare students to practice in the child welfare field by teaching them about the various contexts in which child welfare practice takes place and the skills and modalities that are used with children, youth, and families who are the focus of child welfare intervention. Particular emphasis will be placed on the services provided by community based agencies, child welfare services and the juvenile justice system. Addition emphasis will be given to prepare the students to work the multicultural populations including consumers of different ages, races, cultures, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientations. The student will be prepared to meet ethical issues for social workers dealing with child welfare will be addressed with critical frameworks for resolving ethical dilemmas taught.
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3.00 Credits
This course is cross-listed with SOCI 349 and PSYC 349. A student may receive credit for this course from only one program. See SOCI 349 for course description.
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3.00 Credits
This course is cross-listed with SOCI 360. A student may receive credit for this course from only one program. See SOCI 360 for course description.
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