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1.00 Credits
This seminar for junior level students meets once a week to prepare students for field experience and to facilitate the application and interview process needed to secure a field placement. Students must complete a portfolio, a series of interviews and a proposal for a learning contract. Topics to be covered include 1) professional boundaries and liabilities, 2) diverse client populations, 3) practice settings, 4) legal, ethical, and practical concerns in the field experience practicum. Prerequisites: SOWK 301, 305, 311; majors only.
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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary consideration of the sociological, psychological, and biological processes of aging with emphasis on modes of social intervention. Important aspects of the demography of the aged are clarified, as is the aging's relationship with the family. Studies in changes in intelligence, memory, brain function, and behavior accompany a look at the physiological aspects of the psychology of aging. Normal and pathological physical changes and the effects of exercise receive attention. Discussions of environmental and social issues such as prolongation of life, institutionalization, economics, neighborhood planning, public policy, and community services are examined in their particular applications to older persons and the aging processes. Strategies and techniques of the development and delivery of social services are presented. Prerequisites: SOCI 203 and PSYC 203 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Gives the advanced undergraduate student an opportunity to explore further and integrate, in a generic way, knowledge learned in individual courses covering many other areas of content. There is in-depth analysis of social work values and ethics, professionalism, social change, and systems of delivering human welfare services. Prerequisite: senior majors only.
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3.00 Credits
The culmination of the social welfare student's course work in which the student will be expected to transform theory into practice through direct delivery of human welfare services in an approved community agency under the direction of a qualified supervisor. The student works in an agency 20 hours per week and attends a two-hour seminar held weekly on the University campus. The University faculty and the agency supervise work closely to insure the student undergoes an intense, thorough, broad experience in direct service to people in need. Prerequisite: senior majors only. Note: All students required to complete field work must fill out a field work application form in duplicate during the semester preceding the proposed field work. Forms can be obtained from the field instruction coordinator.
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3.00 Credits
Continuation of Field Experience in Social Work I. Note: All students required to complete field work must fill out a field work application form in duplicate during the semester preceding the proposed field work. Forms can be obtained from the chair of the Social Work Department. Prerequisite: senior majors only.
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2.00 Credits
Weekly seminar which aids the student in meeting the objectives of the field experience program and in applying, in an integrated manner, the theoretical concepts and principles learned in the classroom to the actual delivery of social services. Through use of the case presentation format, the student will be exposed to a variety of change agent, client, target, and action systems and will further develop the ability to analyze and evaluate differing interventive approaches and techniques. The seminar will also expand the student's knowledge of and experience with group problem-solving and professional relationships. Prerequisite: senior majors only.
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2.00 Credits
Weekly seminar which aids the student in meeting the objectives of the field experience program and in applying, in an integrated manner, the theoretical concepts and principles learned in the classroom to the actual delivery of the social services. Through use of the case presentation format, the student will be exposed to a variety of change agent, client, target, and action systems and will further develop the ability to analyze and evaluate differing interventive approaches and techniques. The seminar will also expand the student's knowledge of and experience with group problem-solving and professional relationships. Prerequisite: senior majors only.
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3.00 Credits
The culmination of the social welfare student's course work in which the student will be expected to transform theory into practice through direct delivery of human welfare services in an approved community agency under the direction of a qualified supervisor. The student works in an agency 20 hours per week and attends a two-hour seminar held weekly on the University campus. The University faculty and the agency supervisor work closely to insure the student undergoes an intense, thorough, broad experience in direct service to people in need. Prerequisite: senior majors only.
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3.00 Credits
The final semester of the social work students's field instruction in which the student will be expected to continue applying theory to practice through direct delivery of human services in an approved community agency under the direction of a qualified supervisor. The student works in an agency 20 hours per week and attends a two-hour seminar held weekly on the Shepherd campus. The University faculty and the agency supervisor work closely to insure the student undergoes an intense, thorough, broad experience in direct service to people in need. Prerequisite: senior majors only.
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3.00 Credits
Selected, in-depth analysis of specialized areas of social welfare. The class is structured around intensive reading in a concentrated area with follow-up discussion groups. Each student prepares a research paper exploring some aspect of the topic under study. Content areas include historical analysis, policy formulation, practice theory, comparative policy and theory, and research theory and methodology. Prerequisite: junior/senior status.
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