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3.00 Credits
This course provides a comprehensive overview of HIV/AIDS, including biomedical, psychological, sociological, and global considerations for prevention and care. The course is intended to familiarize students with current knowledge for culturally competent direct social work practice with HIV-positive individuals and their families. In addition, attention is focused on organizational, community and policy level responses to AIDS. Specific topics include medical and cultural origins of HIV; multi-level prevention strategies and barriers to their enactment, including stigma; legal and ethical aspects of prevention, testing, and treatment; psychosocial issues for families of HIV-positive persons, including the implications of grieving, death, and dying; clinical skills in assisting HIV-positive clients/patients; ways to assess comprehensiveness of services offered in and for varying communities; social workers’ varying roles in responding to AIDS as a social and health problem; and, current research and policy implications of the illness. Note: Includes a minimum of 12 hours of volunteer work related to HIV/AIDS.
Prerequisite:
Junior or senior standing in social work or related majors
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the evolution of health care policy in the United States and the changing roles of social workers in health care over time. A range of specific issues are discussed including access to care, quality of care, cost and financing of care as well as specific topics such as health disparities, AIDS, homelessness, and health care in prisons. The course also considers the way selected other countries have organized their health systems, the values that have informed their decisions, and the trade-offs reflected.
Prerequisite:
Junior or senior standing in social work or related majors
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the historical, philosophical, legal, social, political, and economic influences on the development of child welfare services. Selected aspects of children’s lives will be examined to understand and analyze the state of children in the United States and the effects of state intervention in the lives of children and their families. A range of services from family supports to foster care, kinship care, adoption, and family preservation will be examined. Issues of access and equity, gender, differential needs and treatment of children based on race, socioeconomic status, and family type will frame the analyses. Comparisons between the U.S. and other countries will be made to address changes for the future.
Prerequisite:
Junior or senior standing in social work or related majors
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with current information about alcohol and other substance abuse. Using ecosystems and family systems frameworks, information is presented regarding the bio-psycho-social impact of alcohol and other substance abuse on individual and family functioning. Particular attention is given to treatment options and resources for change.
Prerequisite:
Junior or senior standing in social work or related majors
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of theories of social transformation with particular focus on analyzing and addressing societal oppression and injustice. Course topics include dynamics of empowerment and self-determination, social movements and collective action, and the risks and rewards of being a change agent. Emphasis is on participatory learning and practical application in social work and human service settings.
Prerequisite:
Junior or senior standing in social work or related majors
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3.00 Credits
Explores public and private resources, the need for social and political action, the network of services to meet the needs of individuals and their families, present policies and practice in income maintenance, health, housing, safety, and social status. Public-private sponsorship, cost, accountability, benefit levels and administration. Student social action projects completed and expanded.
Prerequisite:
Junior or senior standing in social work or related majors
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the law as it affects the human services professional and the practice of social work. The course provides an overview of major areas of the law as they relate to juveniles, families, and the elderly. It also includes a review of professional responsibilities including informed consent, privileged communication, malpractice laws and the building of effective social work/legal terms.
Prerequisite:
Senior standing in social work or related majors or permission of the instructor
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3.00 Credits
The dynamics of loss, the stress of grief and mourning, societal attitudes about death, and cultural variations in dealing with loss and bereavement practices. To help students explore and examine personal meanings about loss and to prepare students to be responsive and helpful as social workers working with those experiencing loss and grief. Class sessions combine cognitive and experiential material.
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Junior or senior standing in social work or related majors
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
A program developed by instructor and student to permit the study of issues of interest to the student and relevant to social welfare and social work. Students must meet with the faculty member within the first week of the term and agree on: the topic area(s), readings, graded assignments, and due dates. Note: Registration for this course requires prior consent from the faculty member with whom the student wishes to study. The academic advisor will register the student once the professor has agreed and the student communicates this information to the advisor. Study plan must be submitted and approved by the instructor and the Director of the BSW Program.
Prerequisite:
By arrangement of instructor
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the philosophy, concepts, principles, and methods of empirical research in the social and behavioral sciences. Characteristic stages and formats of social research are reviewed, with the primary aim of developing beginning competence in the critical assessment of published research and use of research techniques.
Prerequisite:
PSYCH 1167 (C067); MATH 1013 (C067); SOC 1167 (C067); or STAT 2101 (C021)
Corequisite:
SOC WRK 4001 (4096/W285), 4187 (0290)
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