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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Administration and Supervision
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to Art Therapy
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3.00 Credits
This advanced practice course, with heavy focus on clinical assessment, provides students with a conceptual framework for clinical social work practice with individuals. The course will emphasize assessing clients' systems at the micro level with a particular focus on diagnoses, assessment, and treatment of individuals. The course maintains a multicultural, strengths perspective and a focus on diversity, rural populations, and social and economic justice. The course will be offered in a blended distance learning format.
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3.00 Credits
Social Work and the Law
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3.00 Credits
Mediation as an alternate form of dispute resolution is continuing to rise and is being used in human services, corporate, labor, consumer, and family issues widely across the United States. Students in the Mediation class will focus on practical and theoretical aspects of mediation and its place in the larger framework of alternate dispute resolution for social work clients. Skills in helping parties find common ground, creating a climate for reaching agreement, aspects of confidentiality, and both directive and non-directive mediation techniques will be explored.
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3.00 Credits
Adv Social Welfare Policy
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3.00 Credits
Leadership theories and practices that are relevant to professional social work. The course prepares students for effective leadership practice in both formal leadership positions (i.e. administrative positions) and informal leadership (i.e. amongst colleagues). Students will be able to apply the course concepts to their work as advanced generalist practitioners at micro, mezzo and macro levels. Leadership issues and challenges within a multicultural context and variety of settings including nonprofit, public, for-profit, community-based, political, national and intemational organizations will be explored. Students will assess their own and others' leadership styles in order to build competence as leaders. Students will create an individual leadership development plan based on key leadership theories and models. Special emphasis will be placed on the need for evidence-based leadership practice and leadership for social and economic justice.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the topic of addictions, preparing students to recognize and intervene when clients and their families demonstrate addictions problems in a wide range of social service agencies and host settings, such as child welfare, mental health, aging, schools, health care, corrections, and drug and alcohol programs. The course will examine the evolving models of alcohol and chemical dependency to the present day understanding of the disease model, including an examination of the neurobiology of addiction and basic pharmacology including medication assisted therapies. The concept of harm reduction is introduced. Using a case studies approach, students will develop assessment and intervention skills. The course will address professional issues including credentialing, confidentiality and ethics.
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3.00 Credits
This three credit advanced elective course includes the examination of the major human rights documents and their impact on social work practice as well as the exploration of strategies and techniques used in the rights-based approach in social work. This is a hybrid course that is primarily delivered on-line with some face- to-face interaction.
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3.00 Credits
Students will be exposed to global issues and understand how the institution of social welfare has developed in different regions of the world. The course examines globalization and its effect on social welfare and human need. As a way of understanding how different regions and countries have responded to human need, the course explores the specific areas of women in developing countries, street children and child labor, HIV in the developing world, and the plight of refugees. The role of international organizations, such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the agencies of the United Nations, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in shaping international welfare policy and services will be examined.
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