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3.00 Credits
(Spring and Alternate Summers, Course Offered Every Year) What is our responsibility for those who cannot or will not look after themselves Different societies reflecting their respective ideologies address these issues from a variety of perspectives. This course will examine the ideologies and perspectives that have shaped social welfare policy in the United States and in other societies around the world. Then, using the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and other international covenants as a lens, the course will examine the resulting social welfare policies and the intentional and unintentional impacts these policies have on vulnerable and oppressed populations. This course requires 15 hours of service learning activity. Prerequisite: 75 credit hours completed upon course enrollment. Also offered as CORE 406.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall and Spring, Course Offered Every Year) This course is the first in a three-course generalist practice sequence that focuses on strengths, capacities, and resources of client systems in relation to their broader environment. The course prepares students to engage individuals in an appropriate working relationship, identify issues, problems, needs, resources, and assets; collect and assess information; and plan for service delivery. It also includes identifying, analyzing, and implementing empirically based interventions designed to achieve client goals and promote social and economic justice. Open to social work majors only. Prerequisites: SWK 241 and SWK 307 or SWK 308.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall and Spring, Course Offered Every Year) This course is the second in a three-course generalist practice sequence that focuses on strengths, capacities, and resources of client systems in relation to their broader environment. The course prepares students to engage families and groups in an appropriate working relationship, identify issues, problems, needs, resources, and assets; collect and assess information; and plan for service delivery. It also includes identifying, analyzing, and implementing empirically based interventions designed to achieve client goals and promote social and economic justice. Open to social work majors only. Prerequisites: SWK 241, SWK 304 and SWK 307 or 308.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall, Course Offered Every Year) Provides content on the reciprocal relationships between human behavior and social environments. Content includes empirically based theories and knowledge that focus on the interactions between and among individuals, groups, societies, and economic systems. The course focuses on theories and knowledge of biological, sociological, cultural, psychological, and spiritual development that address the stages of the life span from conception through adolescence. Also addressed is the range of social systems in which people live (individual, family, group, organizational, and community); and the ways social systems promote or deter people in maintaining or achieving health and well-being. Prerequisites: PSY 100, SOC 230. Prerequisites or co-requisites: BIO 322/342, SWK 241.
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3.00 Credits
(Spring, Course Offered Every Year) Provides content on the reciprocal relationships between human behavior and social environments. Content includes empirically based theories and knowledge that focus on the interactions between and among individuals, groups, societies, and economic systems. It focuses on theories and knowledge of biological, sociological, cultural, psychological, and spiritual development that address the stages of the life span from young adulthood through death. Also addressed is the range of social systems in which people live (individual, family, group, organizational, and community); and the ways social systems promote or deter people in maintaining or achieving health and well-being. Prerequisites: PSY 100, SOC 230: Prerequisites or co-requisites: BIO 322/342, SWK 241.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall, Course Offered Every Year) This course prepares students to develop, use, and effectively communicate empirically based knowledge, including evidence-based interventions. Qualitative and quantitative research content provides understanding of a scientific, analytic, and ethical approach to building knowledge for practice. The course prepares students to provide high-quality services; to initiate change; to improve practice, policy, and social service delivery; and to evaluate their own practice. Prerequisite: PSY 200.
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1.00 Credits
(Fall and Spring, Course Offered Every Year) Students will be assisted in the selection of a social work field placement and in the completion of the application and interview process. The professional values, knowledge, and skills necessary for a successful field experience will be reviewed. Prerequisite: SWK 304, Co-requisites: SWK 305, SWK 401. Pass/fail grading only.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall and Spring, Course Offered Every Year) This course is the third in a three-course generalist practice sequence that focuses on strengths, capacities, and resources of client systems in relation to their broader environment. The course prepares students to engage organizations and communities in an appropriate working relationship, identify issues, problems, needs, resources, and assets; collect and assess information; and plan for service delivery. It also includes identifying, analyzing, and implementing empirically based interventions designed to achieve client goals and promote social and economic justice. Open to social work majors only. Prerequisites: SWK 241, SWK 307 or 308, SWK 304.
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12.00 Credits
(Fall and Spring, Course Offered Every Year) The social work field experience is an integral component of social work education and is anchored in the mission, goals, and objectives of the social work program. A minimum of 450 hours of beginning level generalist social work practice experience under the supervision of a professional social worker in an appropriate social agency is required. This experience will reinforce the student's identification with the purposes, values, and ethics of the profession; foster the integration of empirical and practice- based knowledge; and promote the development of professional competence. Open to social work majors only. All social work major courses must be completed prior to enrollment in SWK 402 and SWK 403, which are corequisites. Also requires approval of Director of Field Education. Fee: $300.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall and Spring, Course Offered Every Year) Students meet weekly for a 3-hour integrative field seminar designed to assist them in applying empirically based social work theory, knowledge and professional ethics in a social work practice setting and provide a capstone experience. Students complete an evaluation of practice research project in which they apply in their field settings research skills obtained through the social work curriculum. Written assignments are provided to demonstrate integration of knowledge and practice. Open to social work majors only. All social work major courses must be completed prior to enrollment in SWK 402 and SWK 403, which are co-requisites. Also requires approval of the Director of Field Education.
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