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3.00 Credits
Prereq: Admission to the BSW Program. Examines the history, challenges, and issues of governmental intervention in families to protect at-risk children. Concentrates on the effects of the 1980 federal legislation (PL 96-272) on child welfare delivery systems and practice. Provides a comprehensive overview of child welfare services, including child protective services, in-home services, foster care, group care, and adoption. Overview of the juvenile justice system and its impact on children and their families.
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3.00 Credits
(3 cr) Prereq: Admission to the School of Social Work or special permission. SOCW 3320. A comprehensive avenue of guided exchange and dissemination of mental health and mental retardation issues. Increases students' knowledge, awareness, and understanding of mental health concerns facing social workers in their interventions with direct and indirect consumers of services and other professionals. Includes: history, laws, and policy implications; human rights and social justice issues; the assessment of individuals; and the delivery of services.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: Admission to the BSW program or permission of the School of Social Work. Fundamental principles of criminal and civil law that have relevance to the practice of social work. Topics include the legal system, legal research methods, professional ethical/legal responsibilities, family law, criminal law, juvenile law, personal injury law, employment discrimination law, capacity to make contracts and wills, rights of institutionalized patients, and rights of handicapped children to an education.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: BSW students who have completed SOCW 302 and 335, or permission of the School. Social work literature defines spirituality as the human striving for a sense of meaning, purpose, values, and fulfillment. Spirituality is expressed through diverse forms in clients' lives; it is central to clients' understanding of suffering and their attempts to resolve it. Examines major issues pertaining to spirituallysensitive social work practice with clients of diverse religious and nonreligious (i.e., outside sectarian institutional contexts) perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
(GERO 485) (3 cr) Prereq: Senior or graduate in social work or permission of School. Offered fall semester only. Designed to involve students in the recognition of fears, concerns, and needs of dying patients and their families by examining the hospice concept and other services available in our community. Factual information, readings, professional presentations, films, and experiential exercises are offered to aid the student in understanding that hospice is an alternative to the traditional medical model so that when the "cure" systemis no longer functional, then the "care" system, hospice, can beoffered.
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3.00 Credits
(3 cr) Prereq: SOCW 335. Focuses on the issues of feminism and sexism in social work practice and their implication for social service delivery systems, social policy and practice modalities.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Prereq: Admission to BSW program. This course may be repeated for up to 9 hours credit. Advanced topics and experiences in social work theory and practice. Specifics announced when the course is offered. The topics selected will be consistent with faculty expertise and student needs.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
( Fall, Spring, Summer) Prereq: Permission of the School. Written approval required prior to enrollment. Independent study in library research, social work practice, or individualized special projects.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Prereq: Senior in Honors Program. The senior honors project must by approved by the CPACS Honors Coordinator. Independent research project supervised by department/ school faculty.
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2.00 Credits
Lec. Students in CASNR must use this as a free elective. Soils and civilization. Soil disasters due to erosion, salinization or contamination. Historical failures in soil conservation. Dependence of highways, building foundations and waste treatment on soil behavior. Ecological functions of soil. Soils as the source of food and fiber production.
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