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3.00 Credits
Three hours This course is designed to assist students to successfully manage interpersonal relationships with people from differing cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Emphasis will be placed on the social systems, value orientations, and lifestyles of major ethnic minorities in the United States, along with the effects of prejudice, discrimination, and racism. Students will be epected to eplore their own ethnicity and develop a greater understanding of one's origin. In addition, this course will review denominational differences, religion, and the Appalachian region. Open to non-majors.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours An overview of social work values and ethics with an emphasis on their application in professional practice. Special attention will be given to ethical dilemmas faced by social workers. This course eamines Judeao- Christian values and ethics and how they interact, parallel or come into conflict with the ethics and values of the social work profession.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours This course prepares students to work in church and faith-based organizations. This course is an introduction to the nature of faith-based social services and social ministries. Content includes spirituality assessment tools, the Biblical and theological basis for faith-based social services, various models for faith-based services and recent government initiatives/policies related to faith-based services.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours This is the first of two required courses for child welfare certification. It is open to all students.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours Methods for Social Work This course demonstrates linkages between theory and research, the role of research in investigating theory, logic applied in the research process, stages of the research process, strategies and techniques in data collection, the major approaches to data analysis, and methods for preparing a research proposal. The primary focus is on quantitative methods.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours Methods for Social Work This course eplores issues related to the qualitative research and presents the foundations and techniques of carrying out qualitative research. This course introduces the five qualitative traditions of inquiry (biography, phenomenological, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study). Topics include theoretical foundations, planning for a qualitative research project, ethics of conducting research, data collection and analysis, and writing/presenting qualitative research. This course requires a research project involving participant observation and/or interviewing.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours This is the second of two required courses for child welfare certification. It is open to all students.
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3.00 Credits
Twelve hours This course requires two hours of weekly classroom seminar. Field education is designed, coordinated, supervised, and evaluated on the basis of criteria by which students demonstrate the achievement of social work program objectives. Students spend a minimum of 500 clock hours during the last semester of their senior year at an approved practicum setting that meets the criteria for social work field education as stated by the Council on Social Work Education. Application for field instruction must be processed and approved the semester before registering for SWK 410. Prerequisites are: All social work courses ecept SWK 450 which can be taken concurrently. Social work majors only.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours See PSY 414 for course description.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours This course is designed to provide both theoretical and eperiential eposure to the diverse population eperiencing death, dying, and bereavement. Values and ethics of professional practice are eplored as well as social and economic issues that interact with the aspects of dying.
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