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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Problems and issues confronting American families and existing and proposed policy initiatives to address the matters. Focus on the values, the political forces, and the knowledge base behind policy intervention. Major emphasis on policy analysis as a systematic means of approaching this topic.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore conceptual, analytical, and strategis parameters of effective policy leadership for community work. It seek to provide for the community social worker both perspective and guidance for facilitaing changes in community policy forums, decision-making structures, and policy implemation arenas. An operational goal of the course is to increase the community policy development skill repetoire of the MSW professional to inform and enhance effective community practice.
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3.00 Credits
The Professional Foundation plus one Concentration Core course. Designed to bring together students across concentrations to examine the needs of families., neighborhoods, and communities struggling with high levels of poverty and its effects. Based on social work's historical mission of intervention in high-risk commnunities while advocating for social reform, this course is aimed at using the ecological model to develop an understanding multilevel assessment and practice focused on empowering families, neighborhoods,and communities. This course recognizes the pattern of social and economic injustices based on racial, ethnic socialcultural, and gender characteristics that result in inequitable distribution of poverty.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on essential knowledge and skills necessary to engage in the peacemaking process. Students explore and analyze their own understandings of the concepts of peace and conflict. Catholic Social Teaching regarding peace and peacemaking is examined as a framework for approaching peacemaking. Emphasis is placed on the development and application of practical peacemaking strategies in responding to conflict at the interpersonal, community, and global level.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Designed to focus on an integrated approach for health care delivery to the elderly. Emphasis is on the physiological, psychological, socio-cultural, spiritual, ethical, and political/legal theoretical basis for care of the elderly. Opportunities are provided to acquire a knowledge about the elderly from the various disciplines in relation to practice, education, and research.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides the student with the basic knowledge and skills needed by the school social worker. Content include the historical development of school social work; education and special education laws and mandates; school social work processes including referrals and assessments; and the social work roles of clinician, broker, advocate, educator, consultant, and researcher in the school.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to equip students with a broad range of interactional, analytical and political skills needed to assist communities and organizations, and to serve as change agent to promote social and economic justice. The technical and practical elements of planning, organizing and development work will be explored with an emphasis on the values of democratic, participatory models that empower individuals and groups. Content also includes assessment of major social problems and how the assessment influences the choice of intervention strategies. Prerequisites: SW S702 and SW S751
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to theories, bodies of knowledge and perspectives,which explain the behavior of individuals and social systems. Applicability of theories to social work intervention.
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