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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
1 FS This course is for special topics offered for 1.0-3.0 units. Topics will vary from term to term and be different for different sections. See the Class Schedule for the specific topic being offered.
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3.00 Credits
3 FS SWRK 170, SWRK 200, SWRK 302, SWRK 303, SWRK 305, SWRK 325, SWRK 330. The student will work closely with faculty in a particular area of interest on an original project or research topic. The year-long collaboration culminates in a professional product for public presentation.
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3.00 Credits
3 FA Graduate standing and acceptance to the MSW program or instructor permission. SWRK 605, SWRK 608, SWRK 617, SWRK 631. This course provides understanding of human behavior and social environment from an eco-systemic and value-based perspective as applicable in social work practice. Content includes theories and knowledge of human, bio-psycho-social development, and the range of social systems (families, groups, organizations, institutions, and communities) in which individuals live. This course looks at the larger view of the interaction of human behavior and the social environment across the life span from the human ancestor and family genetic inheritance to birth, childhood, youth, adult life, old age, and death.
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3.00 Credits
3 FA Graduate standing and acceptance to the MSW program or instructor permission. SWRK 601, SWRK 608, SWRK 617, SWRK 631. This course examines economic, historical, political, intellectual, sociocultural, leadership, values, and ideologies and other factors which shape social welfare and economic policy, programs, and services. It addresses various frameworks for studying social welfare policy, programs, and services, and examines the roles of policy-makers, processes of social change, and the roles of social workers as facilitators of positive social change. Special emphasis is placed on effects of social and economic policy decisions on impoverished and oppressed people.
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1.00 Credits
3 FA Graduate standing and acceptance to the MSW program. SWRK 601, SWRK 605, SWRK 617, SWRK 631. This is an introductory course in generalist social work practice methods and skills of social work intervention with individuals. Attention is given to the historic development of social work practice, the nature and application of social work values and ethical principles, the theoretical framework of helping methods and the helping process of assessment, planning, intervention, termination, and evaluation. Emphasis is on a generalist approach to helping within an ecosystem approach for understanding the person-in-situation. A minimum of one hour per week will be devoted to skills development laboratory.
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1.00 Credits
3 SP Satisfactory completion of the first semester of the foundation year. SWRK 610, SWRK 612, SWRK 632, SWRK 644. This course is designed to provide a framework for systematic study of the components and issues involved in the practice of social work with groups and families. This course prepares the student to become familiar with the processes involved with group and family formation as well as ongoing processes of assessment, intervention, and evaluation. A minimum of one hour per week will be devoted to skills development laboratory.
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1.00 Credits
3 SP Satisfactory completion of the first semester of the foundation year. SWRK 609, SWRK 612, SWRK 632, SWRK 644. This course is designed to help students understand organizations, institutions, and communities, and to provide the knowledge bases of social work generalist practice for interventions at this level. It provides an opportunity to explore selected macro models of practice, and learn about human service organizations that often serve as an immediate context for community practice. A minimum of one hour per week will be devoted to skills development laboratory.
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3.00 Credits
3 SP Satisfactory completion of the first semester of the foundation year. SWRK 609, SWRK 610, SWRK 632, SWRK 644. This course is designed to assist graduate social work students in understanding and interacting in a culturally competent manner with the multitude of groups that are identified by race, culture, ethnicity, class, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, and regional and national origins that compose the diverse cultural mosaic of the U.S. The course will also cover issues relating to international social work practice and the increasingly interconnected global economy.
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3.00 Credits
4 FA Acceptance to the MSW program. SWRK 601, SWRK 605, SWRK 608, SWRK 631. This course provides an overview of social science and statistical research methods useful for social work practice. It provides the foundation knowledge and skills that enable students to be intelligent consumers of information, to conduct social research, and to critically evaluate social work practice. The application of social research methods to social work practice in various size systems is a primary emphasis.
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1.00 Credits
1 FA Graduate standing and acceptance to the MSW program. This course engages students in the technical writing and critical thinking skills frequently required for professional social workers. Through in-class assignments, peer feedback sessions, weekly dialogues on writing, and critical analysis of writing examples, students learn techniques for analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating writing. Students use written social work course assignments to gain experience in evaluating pattern errors, develop thesis statements/arguments, and learn writing, editing, and revision skills for the academic and professional genre. Students are exposed to the citation and writing style of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. This 1-unit course is not counted toward the MSW.
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