|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
This first course in the policy sequence emphasizes the analysis of social programs, policies, and the policy-making process. An important focus of the course is to identify and understand the impact of a wide range of social policies on social work clients and the human service delivery system within a social justice framework. The course content reflects the interdisciplinary efforts of the social, political, legal, economic, and administrative processes which are vital to policy-making at all levels. Prereq: Admission into the MSW program.
-
2.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the place of ethics in professional social work practice; the philosophical formulations that underlie ethics; and relevant concepts derived from these formulations. The course emphasizes the development of ethical reasoning and decision-making. Prereq: Admission into the MSW program and SW 600.
-
4.00 Credits
This introductory field-based course under faculty direction requires that students apply and integrate generalist social work knowledge from the foundation curriculum. Students study the special strengths and needs of populations at-risk for reaching their full potential. Emphasis is given to the beginning development of social work practice skills for work with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities toward the goals of restoration and enhancement of social functioning. Students examine many social work roles in the direct delivery of social services with specific attention paid to the NASW Code of Ethics. Experiential learning, 300 hours including weekly seminars. Prereq: SW 600, SW 620, SW 630, SW 625, and SW 650.
-
3.00 Credits
Description and explanation of behavior, socialization and personality differentiation during the post-maturation developmental period: emotional aspects of aging; perception; intelligence; learning; motivation; normal and abnormal behavior; sexuality; life style. Prereq: SW 620 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
-
3.00 Credits
Introduction to systematic approaches to scientific thinking necessary for building knowledge and evaluating one's own practice. Includes ethical use of scientific inquiry, critical appreciation of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, and use of research for program evaluation. Prereq: Open only to students admitted to the graduate Social Work program.
-
2.00 - 6.00 Credits
Current issues that have special significance for social work practice. Selected problems in accordance with the needs and interests of the students registered for the course. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits. Prereq: Consent of instructor.
-
3.00 Credits
This course is designed to enhance the student's professional judgment and clinical decision-making capacity with adult clients across mental health and human service systems of care. This course provides knowledge and skills for assessment and intervention with a broad range of adult biopsychosocial disorders, including situationally precipitated conditions or disorders. An integrative, comparative, and analytic approach will be utilized to explore the relationship between these conditions and the matrix created by biology, society, culture and environment, and to apply this knowledge to the assessment and treatment process. Prereq: Admission into the MSW program with advanced standing or SW 722.
-
3.00 Credits
This course is one of two assessment and intervention courses in the Family and Community Practice Concentration. The course examines the community context of social work practice with an emphasis on organizations, neighborhoods, communities, and larger social systems that influence quality of life. Models of community practice are presented to assess and intervene in social problems and acts of social injustice that constrain opportunities and limit access to resources for individuals and families. Particular attention is given to the concept of asset-based development for building community capacity and empowering individuals and groups. Prereq: SW 722, SW 731, and completion of foundation courses or advanced standing.
-
3.00 Credits
Designed to enhance clinical judgment and decision-making with populations at high risk for victimization or perpetration of violence and substance misuse, this course provides contemporary scientific and clinical knowledge and explores the associations of violence, child abuse, and mental disorders with substance misuse. Theories of addiction are explored with attention to genetic, familial, gender, geographical, and cultural contribution. Neurochemical and neuroanatomical correlates of addiction are explored. Assessment approaches and major interventions are analyzed and applied to practice situations. Prereq: Admission into the MSW program with advanced standing.
-
3.00 Credits
Designed to enhance professional judgment and clinical decision-making concerning child and adolescent clients, this course provides knowledge and skills for assessment and intervention concerning a broad range of biopsychosocial disorders, including situationally precipitated conditions or disorders. An integrative, comparative, and analytic approach is used to explore the relationship between these conditions and the matrix created by biology, society, culture and environment, and to apply this knowledge to assessment and treatment. Prereq: SW 722.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|