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5.00 Credits
Banner Title: Social Work Methods Students will explore the procedures used to identify and evaluate an individual's and/or family' s strengths, weaknesses, problems, and needs in order to develop an effective plan of action. Topics focus on the oral and written communications skills that are essential for assessment, screening, intervention, client information,and referral. Prerequisites: SWG 100, SWG 101, SWG 102 Offered Spring term
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5.00 Credits
Banner Title: Counseling Skills This course introduces the major theories treatment modalities, including client-centered, psychodynamic, rational-emotive, and reality therapy. Topics include cognitive/behavioral approaches such as behavior modification and life skills training. This course also provides an introduction to experimental therapies. Prerequisites: SWG 100, SWG 101, SWG 102 Offered Winter and Summer terms
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5.00 Credits
Banner Title: Abnormal Behavior This course provides students the opportunity to increase their knowledge and understanding of current issues and perspectives in abnormal behavior. Instructors will call attention to the issue of gender, as well as culture, in discussions of psychological disorders. This course also covers groundbreaking biological research on abnormal psychology and provides an integrated bio-psycho-social understanding of each disorder. Students will develop an appreciation of traditional approaches to understanding abnormal behavior. Prerequisites: PSY 101 or PSY 191, SOC 191, SWG 102 Offered Summer term
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5.00 Credits
Banner Title: Special Problems/Youth This course examines various modalities for assessing and intervening with children and adolescents with special needs. The course focuses on problem assessment, types of intervention strategies, and techniques and methods for determining the effectiveness of interventions with children and adolescents. Prerequisites: PSY 101 or PSY 191, SWG 100, SWG 102 Offered Winter term
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5.00 Credits
Banner Title: Adolescent Life Cycle This course is a study of the developmental phases from adolescence through young adulthood and the tasks and goals to be achieved during those stages. Topics include physiological and psychological changes, interpersonal relationships, and the individual's ability to relate to the social environment. An emphasis on the critical areas of the adolescent period of the life cycle will be crucial to the student' s development of skills and techniques needed to work with diverse groups. Prerequisites: PSY 101 or PSY 191, SWG 102 Offered Fall term
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8.00 Credits
Banner Title: Field Experience I Field Experience I and II and the concurrent one-hour seminars are designed as a continuum. Students will be introduced to the basic knowledge, values, and skills that comprise the core of social work practice. Emphasis is placed on a generalist approach, which can be applied to work with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Students will become proficient at identifying multiple levels of intervention (individual, family, community, social policy) and multiple targets for change (individual, society, family, organization) for addressing a wide variety of social problems. Field experience provides students with the opportunity to apply and integrate academic content and to develop skills that meet the requirements for entry-level professional social work assistants. Supervision in the field is provided by a qualified practitioner committed to undergraduate education. Students are required to spend a minimum of 336 clock hours in an educationally oriented field practicum, which is practical general training and experience in the workplace. Instructors and the employer develop and document an individualized plan for each student. The plan relates the workplace training and experience to the student's general and technical course of study. The seminar facilitates the integration of classroom learning with knowledge gained in field practice settings. The seminar encourages students to discuss the different agency settings, wide variety of client populations, and numerous field practice roles and activities. The understanding of the professional role is strengthened and is enhanced beyond the individual student' s own experience. The one weekly concurrent seminar during the quarter permits field experience students in the different agencies and settings the opportunity to share and benefit from the numerous and varied learning experiences. The seminars are held to evaluate, discuss, and interpret th e student? ? involvement and development as a beginning-level professional social work assistant Prerequisites: SWG 100, SWG 101, SWG 102, SWG 103, SWG 104, SWG 105, SWG 200, SWG 201 Offered Quarterly beginning Spring 2009
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8.00 Credits
Banner Title: Field Experience II Field Experience I and II and the concurrent one-hour seminars are designed as a continuum. Students will be introduced to the basic knowledge, values, and skills that comprise the core of social work practice. Emphasis is placed on a generalist approach, which can be applied to work with individual, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Students will become proficient at identifying multiple levels of intervention (individual, family, community, social policy) and multiple targets for change (individual, society, family, organization) for addressing a wide variety of social problems. Field experience provides students with the opportunity to apply and integrate academic content and to develop skills that meet the requirements for entry-level professional social work assistants. Supervision in the field is provided by a qualified practitioner committed to undergraduate education. Students are required to spend a minimum of 336 clock hours in an educationally oriented field practicum, which is practical general training and experience in the workplace. Instructors and the employer develop and document an individualized plan for each student. The plan relates the workplace training and experience to the student's general and technical course of study. The seminar facilitates integration of classroom learning with knowledge gained in field practice settings. The seminar encourages students to discuss the different agency settings, wide variety of client populations, and numerous field practice roles and activities. The understanding of the professional role is strengthened and is enhanced beyond the individual student' s own experience. The one weekly concurrent seminar during the quarter permits field experience students in the different agencies and settings the opportunity to share and benefit from the numerous and varied learning experiences. The seminars are held to evaluate, discuss, and interpret th e student? ? involvement and development as a beginning level professional social work assistant Prerequisites: SWG 100, SWG 101, SWG 102, SWG 103, SWG 104, SWG 105, SWG 200, SWG 201, SWG 202 Offered Quarterly beginning Summer 2009
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5.00 Credits
Banner Title: Social Policies/Aging This course explores the aging process and the experience of aging from a variety of perspectives, including physiological, psychological, and socio-cultural. Instructors place emphasis on developing students' understanding of the normative changes associated with the aging process, as well as the ways in which those changes are experienced personally and societally. Issues covered in the course include the realities of aging on our society; issues around health and emotional well-being and aging, including life adjustments; physical health and mental problems; changes in physical appearance; and the future of aging. Prerequisite: PSY 101 or PSY 191, SOC 191 Offered Fall term
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5.00 Credits
Banner Title: Group Work Intervention This course focuses on the development of students' knowledge and skills in the use of group methods in clinical social work practice. The course emphasizes forming the group; assessing member problems; setting goals; structuring group tasks, activities, and experiences; understanding and enhancing group functioning; enabling problem-solving processes; facilitating transfer of change; evaluating individual and group change; and terminating the group. Particular attention is given to utilizing group methods in clinical social work with clients and client systems from high risk and vulnerable populations and from varying racial, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds. Prerequisites: SWG 102, SWG 104 Offered Winter term
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3.00 Credits
Banner Title: Intro to Veterinary Technology This course introduces the veterinary technology occupation. Topics include terminology, library skills, office procedures, sanitation, regulatory and ethical issues, handling and restraint, breeds, and laboratory issues. Field trips may occur on days other than scheduled class times. Students must pay a $25 supply fee when registering for this course. Prerequisite: Program admission Corequisite beginning Fall 2009: VET 106 Offered Fall term
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