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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course examines cross-cultural practices and values, with emphasis on the commonalities and differences among individuals, groups, organizations, and communities. Emphasis is given to critical analyses of people based on age, ethnicity, race, gender, religion, spirituality, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, veteran, and/or disability status. Offered every semester.
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3.00 Credits
Examines social welfare as an institution, and social work as a profession in American society. Included are basic knowledge, values, and skills required for advanced generalist practice. Emphasis is on values and ethics, populations-at-risk, social and economic justice, and engagement with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Offered fall and winter semester.
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3.00 Credits
This foundation course for advanced generalist social work practice includes training in engagement, assessment and intervention with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Using a strengths-based perspective with respect to diversity, this course focuses on micro, mezzo, and macro theories relevant to practice. Offered fall and winter semesters. Prerequisite: SW 601.
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Prerequisite: SW 601.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines social services delivery systems in the United States, including the profession of social work and an analysis of the historical development in economic, political, and social contexts. Offered fall and winter semesters.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history and influence of the major contemporary public policies and programs on the welfare of children and families. Emerging trends and issues and their implications for future social policy, programs, and services are examined. Interventions via advanced practice skills are discussed. Offered spring/summer semester. Prerequisite: SW 610.
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Prerequisite: SW 610.
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3.00 Credits
The course is structured to provide students with a basis for literacy about modern human rights, including core principles, key documents, institutions, and practices. A framework for the analysis of social work/human rights interactions is utilized and systematically applied, including but not limited to the effect of social, political, and economic policies and programs on human rights; health and social consequences of human rights violations; and the inextricable linkage between promoting and protecting mental and physical health, community well being and family functioning, and promoting and protecting human rights. Prerequisite: SW 610.
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Prerequisite: SW 610.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the development of mental health policies and services in the United States and in Michigan. Public policies and organizations are analyzed and evaluated in relation to trends, impacts, and outcomes on the problem of mental illness in society. Offered spring/summer semester. Prerequisite: SW 610.
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Prerequisite: SW 610.
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3.00 Credits
The course synthesizes and applies theories of human behavior and the social environment into social work practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities, based on the person-environment construct and biopsychosocial-spiritual assessment models. Special attention will be on the effects of diversity and difference, and lifespan development. Offered fall and winter semesters.
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3.00 Credits
Provides a comprehensive body of knowledge, organized and integrated in both theoretical and practical terms. Includes an awareness of the dimensions of mental health and mental disorders in adulthood. Provides a bio-psychosocial spiritual strength-based perspective on engagement with, assessment of, and intervention in normal and abnormal behavior. Offered winter and spring/summer semesters. Prerequisites: SW 600 and SW 620.
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Prerequisites: SW 600 and SW 620.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an orientation to macro social work as a core method for advanced generalist practice. Students learn foundational theories and practice skills for engaging, planning, implementing, and evaluating change in communities and organizations. This course emphasizes principles of inclusion, social and economic justice, human rights, and empowerment. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: SW 603.
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Prerequisite: SW 603.
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