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  • SCWK 191: UNIVERSITY SEMINAR I - SOCIAL WORK

    1.00 Credits
    Delaware State University

    University Seminar is a two-semester, General Education course sequence designed to provide students with the essentials for a smooth transition to college life and academic success. Academic skills will be developed. These skills include critical reading, thinking, listening, writing, speaking, and using the library, the internet, and word processing. Values clarification, coping with peer pressures, and the impact of a healthy lifestyle will be addressed. Opportunities will be provided for self-evaluation and growth in basic learning strategies as well as personal and career goals. Knowing the history of the University, feeling connected to the institution, and sharing a common educational experience with other freshmen are important goals of this course.Credit, one hour.
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  • SCWK 192: UNIVERSITY SEMINAR II - SOCIAL WORK

    1.00 Credits
    Delaware State University

    University Seminar is a two-semester, General Education course sequence designed to provide students with the essentials for a smooth transition to college life and academic success. Academic skills will be developed. These skills include critical reading, thinking, listening, writing, speaking, and using the library, the internet, and word processing. Values clarification, coping with peer pressures, and the impact of a healthy lifestyle will be addressed. Opportunities will be provided for self-evaluation and growth in basic learning strategies as well as personal and career goals. Knowing the history of the University, feeling connected to the institution, and sharing a common educational experience with other freshmen are important goals of this course.Credit, one hour.
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  • SCWK 201: ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND SOCIAL WELFARE

    3.00 Credits
    Delaware State University

    The course provides an examination of the structure, function, and interaction of economics, politics, and social welfare. The interrelation between the nature and scope of economic and political systems is explored. Focus is on social welfare policies and programs within the context of economic and political demands. Selected social welfare problems are surveyed and examined. The course will apply the principles of political economy to the world of Social Work. What is the basis of this discipline and how can this method of inquiry enhance our understanding? What, how, and why do we do what we do as social workers?Prerequisites: SCWK 101, or with consent of the Instructor.Credit, three hours. Prerequisite:    SCWK 101
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  • SCWK 300: RELATIONAL CULTURE PRACTICE

    3.00 Credits
    Delaware State University

    This course is designed to provide a comprehensive framework for utilizing Relational Cultural theory in social work practice. The theory will be taught as an alternative framework for understanding human growth and development across the life span and for assisting individuals, families, communities, groups and organizations experiencing problems that adversely impact their well-being and functioning. The course specifically addresses the relational experiences of women and other groups who are marginalized in society because of ethnicity, race, class, religious orientation, gender identity, political ideology, age, color and sexual orientation. The course will build on the underpinnings of the social work curriculum which include and Black perspective for social work practice, empowerment, the strengths perspective, the rural perspective and the global perspective.
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  • SCWK 302: HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT I

    3.00 Credits
    Delaware State University

    The course is the first in the two-course foundation--Human Behavior and Social Environment sequence. HBSE I emphasizes the significant biological, psychological, social, and spiritual developmental milestones during the life span stages of conception through childhood and their associated life events. It studies the various components of human behavior and social environment and provides a framework for studying the person-in-environment from an ecological approach. Designed for the generalist practitioner, the course explores multiple factors (e.g., socio-structural factors and human diversity) that shape the development of individual growth and social interaction and explores a range of theories. In addition, it provides a conceptual model for viewing behavior from a holistic perspective within the context of a Black Perspective, strengths perspective, empowerment, and professional values and ethics.Prerequisites: Junior status, SCCJ 101, PSYC 201, or consent of the Instructor.Credit, three hours. Prerequisite:    SCCJ 101 AND PSYC 201
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  • SCWK 303: HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT II

    3.00 Credits
    Delaware State University

    The course is the second in a two-course foundation--Human Behavior and Social Environment sequence. HBSE II emphasizes the significant biological, psychological, social, and spiritual developmental milestones during the life span stages of adolescence through aging and their associated life events. It studies the various components of human behavior and social environment and provides a framework for studying the person-in-environment from an ecological approach. Designed for the generalist practitioner, the course explores multiple factors (e.g., socio-structural factors and human diversity) that shape the development of individual growth and social interaction and explores a range of theories. In addition, it provides a conceptual model for viewing behavior from a holistic perspective within the context of a Black Perspective, strengths perspective, empowerment, and professional values and ethics.Prerequisites: SCWK 302.Credit, three hours. Prerequisite:    SCWK 302
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  • SCWK 310: ELEMENTARY STATISTICS FOR SOCIAL WORK

    3.00 Credits
    Delaware State University

    The course communicates the underlying statistical methods used in the analysis of social data. The course presents the basic concepts and assumptions of statistical theory applied in the logical development of statistical inferences. Descriptive and inferential statistics (parametric and nonparametric) are covered. Emphasis is on the interpretation of statistics in social work research, literature, and evaluation. It also emphasizes a generalist perspective in social work practice problem-solving/planned change process. Basic concepts include centrality, estimation of variability, probability and the normal distribution, precision of estimate, group differences, ANOVA, single subject design, regression, and correlation. Computation problems and examples will be keyed to generalist social work practice as aids in developing an understanding of substantive material presented.Prerequisites: Completion of Math General Education Requirements.Credit, three hours. Prerequisite:    MTSC 101 OR MTSC 102 OR MTSC 121 OR MTSC 122 OR MTSC 107 OR MTSC 108
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  • SCWK 311: INTRODUCTION TO GROUP DYNAMICS

    3.00 Credits
    Delaware State University

    The course focuses on the nature of groups, group development, and the interrelations between and among groups and individuals, other groups, and larger entities. The course's goal is that students understand the relevance of small group theory and research to social work practice with groups and develop an understanding of group phenomena that will facilitate their growth and effective functioning as a group leader. The course focuses on various aspects of group life including group goals, leadership, cohesion, communication and interaction patterns, roles, status and norms, culture, and stages of group development. Through readings, lectures, class discussions, and experiential learning, students integrate theory and practice of group process.Prerequisites: Junior status. Credit, three hours.
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  • SCWK 315: SOCIAL WELFARE POLICIES AND PROGRAMS I

    3.00 Credits
    Delaware State University

    The course is the first in a two-course foundation policy sequence. It provides a framework for the understanding of social welfare policies and programs as well as the historical and contemporary forces that have shaped their development. The parallel historical development of the profession of social work, including the ways it responded to the demands of social problems across key periods of social welfare policy transformations, will be examined. The course also focuses on the role of the social work generalist in integrating the concepts of social and economic justice, a Black perspective, empowerment, advocacy, and social action, and on how these concepts have impacted the experiences of populations at risk. It introduces a framework for social policy analysis.Prerequisites: Junior status, SCWK 101, SCWK 201.Credit, three hours. Prerequisite:    SCWK 101 AND SCWK 201
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  • SCWK 316: SOCIAL WELFARE POLICIES AND PROGRAMS II

    3.00 Credits
    Delaware State University

    The course is the second in a two-course foundation policy sequence. Consistent with the generalist perspective to social work practice, the purpose of this course is to ensure that the student is able to analyze social welfare policies within a specific conceptual framework. The course will help students to apply the framework of analysis to study and evaluate various social welfare policies. To this end, students will examine residual and universal social welfare benefits and related policies regarding their goals, recipients, entitlements, how social welfare programs are financed, and their effectiveness and adequacy, etc. The course will also examine the degree to which the concept of social and political justice bears on the nature and scope of social welfare programs and the policies that govern them. Particular emphasis will be placed on policies that address poverty racially oppressed groups and other populations at risk that have become central issues in the analysis of the welfare system. Managed care, welfare reform, privatization, and political ideologies will be discussed within the context of their significance in any analysis of social welfare programs and related policies of the millennium.Prerequisites: SCWK 315.Credit, three hours. Prerequisite:    SCWK 315
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