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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. This course surveys the fi eld of child welfare. Students will acquire an understanding of the issues involved in providing services to children who have been affected by child abuse and neglect, unplanned pregnancy, foster care, institutional care, and mental health concerns. The student will acquire knowledge relevant to working with children, biological parents, foster parents, adoptive parents, and other systems involved in the welfare of children. Restricted to students with sophomore standing or higher. (See SOCL 333)
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. This course provides an overview of social work practice with families. Using a family systems and family life cycle perspective, diversity in families will be examined. The dynamics of families experiencing a wide variety of life challenges such as divorce, remarriage, family violence, caring for aging parents, or homosexual family life and social work interventions with these family issues will be explored. Students will have the opportunity to refl ect on their own family for the purpose of better understanding family dynamics from a nonjudgmental perspective. Prerequisite: 210 or PSYC 100 or 171 or SOCL 125 or 210. Restricted to students with sophomore standing or higher.
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. This course will provide an overview of research methods appropriate for evaluating all levels of social work practice. Students will study the logic and ethics of research designs and practice evaluation. Selected research strategies will include single subject design, needs assessment, and program evaluation. A key component of evaluation includes the effect that diversity has on all phases of the research process. Prerequisite: admission to the social work program.
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. This course will provide an overview of the history of American social welfare programs, the assessment of socio-economic attitudes that underlie policies related to social and economic justice, and the process of governmental policy making. Students will be introduced to social policy analysis. Special emphasis will be placed on poverty, welfare programs, and welfare reform. An overview of current social policy associated with economic support, housing, food, and immigration will be provided. Prerequisite: admission to the social work program.
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. Social workers and other helping professionals perform critical roles in mental health treatment teams, community support programs, and as advocates for mental health issues. This course provides an introduction to the community based mental health care delivery system. The strengths perspective is stressed with an emphasis on biopsychosocial aspects of mental health, social constructionist perspective of mental illness, and generalist practice. Psychological diagnosis for common mental illness is introduced for the purpose of working in interdisciplinary teams and in supportive roles with families. Evidence-based, best practice approaches are reviewed. Prerequisite: 210 or SOCL 210; PSYC 171; SOCL 125. Restricted to students with sophomore standing or higher. (See SOCL 366)
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. This course will provide an opportunity to become informed and aware of critical issues in the lives of professional social workers and the client populations that they serve. This course will allow students to engage in critical discussion and understanding of specifi c issues that are currently affecting the practice environment, social welfare policy, societal concerns, and professional development. Prerequisite: 210 or SOCL 210.
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. This course will further develop the knowledge and skills of generalist social work practice by applying the planned change process to groups and communities. Students will learn alternative intervention strategies with populations at risk, and examine ethical confl icts in work with groups and communities. Prerequisitess: 280, 321, 431; admission to the social work program.
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. This course focuses on the theory and knowledge needed to understand human interaction in the social environment from a social systems perspective, including groups, communities, and organizations. Emphasis will be placed on viewing human behavior and social problems as multi-causal and involving intervention with multi-person client systems utilizing the generalist approach to social work practice. Students will develop an understanding of how human diversity impacts the functioning of families, groups, communities, and organizations with particular focus on race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. Prerequisites: 331; admission to the social work program.
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3.00 Credits
3 Cr. This course presents an overview of the development, implementation, and effectiveness of current policies and programs associated with aging, health, mental health, and disabilities and implications for social work practice. The impact of these social policies and programs on the well being of racial and ethnic groups and populations at risk will be examined. Students will strengthen their skills in analyzing the adequacy, effectiveness, and equity of these policies and learn how to infl uence the course of social welfare policy. Prerequisite: admission to the social work program. W
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1.00 Credits
1 Cr. This course provides students with an overview of the Field Education experience and focuses on the work required to obtain an approved Field Education placement. The course will meet for one hour per week and cover material regarding admission to fi eld education, agency sites, placement process, agency interviews, fi eld education expectations, learning contracts, NASW Code of Ethics issues pertinent to fi eld education, and Senior Capstone course overview. Students will be completing many of the course requirements outside of class. Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment or completion of social work core requirements except for 480 and 482. Restricted to students with senior standing. Graded CR/NC.
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