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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Independent Study
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3.00 Credits
This course immediately precedes the Field Practicum (Social Work 380). Students integrate principles and skills of culturally competent assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation with diverse clients - micro, mezzo, and macro. They roleplay diverse practice situations and articulate implications of social policy for cross-cultural practice. Brief immersion opportunities in diverse communities are included. Prerequisite: Social Work 261. Offered in September each year, for majors only; additional fee.
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2.50 Credits
In this "real world" experience, social work majors complete at least 400 hours in a rural or urban agency with structured learning about generalist practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities from diverse backgrounds. Students engage in professional responsibilities with careful guidance and supervision from the field instructor and the field coordinator. Students periodically attend a seminar to integrate classroom learning, share experiences and obtain support. Prerequisite: Majors who have satisfactorily completed all foundation and required courses with numbers below 380. Offered Fall Semester.
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3.00 Credits
This capstone course is for senior majors. Students complete a community-based project commonly assigned to a beginning-level generalist social worker. Weekly seminars introduce auxiliary skills and knowledge for beginning workers. Students discuss current social work issues and provide peer consultation with projects. Evaluation includes: a report of project results; analysis of decision-making in relation to theory, scientific findings, diversity, and ethics; and assessment of demonstrated mastery of program objectives. Prerequisite: Social work majors who have satisfactorily completed Social Work 380. Offered Spring Semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a comprehensive research opportunity, including an introduction to relevant background material, technical instruction, identification of a meaningful project, and data collection. The topic is determined by the faculty member in charge of the course and may relate to his/her research interests. Prerequisite: Determined by individual instructor. Offer based on department decision.
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3.00 Credits
Independent Research
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3.00 Credits
This course approaches longstanding questions about the meaning of conflict, violence, and power in human societies from an anthropological perspective. The course examines indigenous traditions of conflict and conviviality and the violence indigenous societies endured in colonial encounters with the West. Students also consider anthropological approaches to modern forms of violence including terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and state violence. Finally, students examine anthropological approaches to the analysis of twenty-first century wars and contemporary peace movements. Offered during Interim.
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3.00 Credits
In many respects, products like caffeine, nicotine, alcohol and opium provide the glue that holds together modern life. This course examines the web of these substances from an anthropological perspective. Our focus includes the politics of production, the culturally diverse practices of consumption, and the social consequences of regulation. Based on our collective experience at St. Olaf, we consider the mood-altering substances on and off campus and examine their influence in such things as our social identity, individual consciousness and the structure of authority. Offered during Interim.
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3.00 Credits
In this course we will explore how jazz music and accompanying cultural forms have reflected as well as shaped American society and culture. Utilizing photographs, film, music and texts, we will examine how race, class, and gender structured jazz, as well as politics, urbanization, migration, and technology. We will look at jazz in terms of social deviance and as a social movement, including its relationship to slavery, segregation and African cultural roots. Offered during Interim.
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3.00 Credits
This course helps students explore the connections between society and their own lives. Students answer challenging questions such as "Do we have a 'human nature' ," "Why does social inequality exist ," "What is race ," and "How do societies change " In answering these questions students learn to develop a sociological imagination. In doing so they review the various research methods and theories that form the sociological tradition. This course is primarily open to first year students or students in certain accredited programs. Offered both semesters. Open to first-year students only.
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