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19:910:500
Social Work Practice I (3)
First of two required foundation practice courses based on a generalist social work practice perspective. A problem-solving model of practice applicable to work with systems of all sizes including individuals, families, small groups, organizations, and communities.
Corequisite: 19:910:508 Field Practicum I.
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19:910:501
Social Work Practice II (3)
The second of two foundation practice courses based on a generalist social work perspective. Continues use of a problem-solving model for work with systems of all sizes, and examines implications for at-risk groups.
Prerequisite: 19:910:500.
Corequisite: 19:910:509 Field Practicum II.
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19:910:502
Human Behavior and the Social Environment I (3)
Theories, themes, and issues concerning the ongoing interaction between people as they grow, change, and develop over the life course and the social context in which this occurs. Particular attention to assumptions about human behavior that may interfere with recognition of diversity in the ongoing interaction between individual, family, and group identity; social context; and social life. Highlights values and ethical issues related to biopsychosocial development.
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19:910:504
Social Welfare Policy and Services I (3)
History, philosophy, and development of social welfare as an essential institution in the United States. Study of the emergence and role of social work, understanding of patterns of current provision, and introduction to analysis of social welfare policies.
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19:910:505
Methods of Social Work Research I (3)
Introduction to scientific, analytic approach to building knowledge and skills, including role of concepts and theory, hypothesis formulation, operationalization, research design, data collection, data processing, statistical analysis, introductory computer skills, and report writing.
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19:910:506
Diversity and Oppression (3)
This diversity and oppression course will introduce a range of diverse populations by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and physical differences. Additionally, students will examine the role, function, and effects of oppression in society as it relates to social and economic justice. Assumptions underlying theory and research methodologies from which basic constructs of human behavior are drawn will be examined to understand how power and other dynamics manage and sustain oppression at the individual and institutional levels. Also of interest is how oppression affects service delivery at micro and macro levels, particularly social policies and strategic planning that drive the shape of services.
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19:910:507
Psychopathology (3)
Major forms of emotional distress in adults and children. Classification trends, issues, and models. Introduction to clinical syndromes in terms of diagnostic methodology, research, and social concerns and their implications for at-risk groups.
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19:910:508
Field Practicum I (3)
Practice social work in agency settings under qualified educational supervision. Includes service to vulnerable and oppressed populations while learning generalist skills.
Corequisite: 19:910:500 Social Work Practice I.
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19:910:509
Field Practicum II (3)
Furthers learning of problem-solving skills and strategies begun in Field Practicum I and prepares students to enter the advanced field curriculum.
Corequisite: 19:910:501 Social Work Practice II.
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Advanced Curriculum and Electives
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19:910:511
Advanced Direct Practice I (3)
Focus on advanced social work, clinical and client advocacy skills, and techniques at each stage of the helping process and with difficult practice situations as these apply to work with individuals, client groups, couples, and family systems. Case examples drawn particularly from the client populations addressed in the specialization.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of professional foundation courses and statistics prerequisite.
Corequisite: Must be taken concurrently with advanced direct practice and specialization-appropriate field education placement.
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19:910:512
Advanced Direct Practice II (3)
Validity, relevance, and differential use in practice of various selected psychotherapeutic theories that have influenced social work direct practice with individuals, families, couples, and groups. Ethnic-sensitive and feminist perspectives as important critical filters. Continuing concern for the relevance of these theories for people of color, women, and gay and lesbian persons.
Prerequisite: 19:910:511.
Corequisite: Must be taken concurrently with advanced direct practice and specialization-appropriate field education placement.
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19:910:513
Advanced Direct Practice with Adolescents (3)
Physical, psychological, social, and cultural dimensions of adolescence in today's culture, with focus on advanced direct practice with typical problems of adolescents. Particular attention paid to high risk groups.
Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice I.
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19:910:514
Advanced Theory and Practice Group Work (3)
Skills developed regarding direct interventions with individuals in groups, with groups as a whole, and with groups to influence their environments. Addresses program building, consultation, and teamwork in developing group work services for individual and social change, especially for ethnic/cultural minorities, the oppressed, and the victimized.
Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice I.
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19:910:516
Advanced Practice in Health Care (3)
Problem-solving model of direct practice is applied, at an advanced level, for individuals, families, and groups in health care and mental health care settings. Skills of crisis intervention, case management, and discharge planning addressed. Professional practice as part of an interdisciplinary team.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of professional foundation courses.
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19:910:517
Advanced Direct Practice: Individuals with Mental Illness (3)
Contemporary interventions with clients who have severe psychiatric disorders and their families, in institutional and community settings. Intervention techniques with the more severe and chronic forms of psychiatric disorder as defined in DSM IV; psychotropic medications; case management; the treatment orientations to care; and special issues in work with children and adolescents.
Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice I.
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19:910:518
Advanced Direct Practice with Families and Children at Risk (3)
Focuses on families of social and ethnic minorities and other oppressed groups of special concern to the child welfare system that are at risk of neglecting or abusing their children. Emphasis on assessment of risk, crisis intervention and case management skills, work with community service systems, and utilization of the legal system.
Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice I.
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19:910:519
Advanced Direct Practice with Families (3)
Advanced practice with family systems, with emphasis on systems-analytical perspective that includes environing systems, as well as internal dynamics of the family system. Differential use of the major theoretical approaches in family therapy. Emphasis on a social work framework and on such traditional family social work techniques as advocacy, brokerage, and provision of concrete services.
Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice I.
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19:910:520
Advanced Direct Practice in School Settings (3)
Advanced direct practice with children and adolescents in the context of the public school setting, individually, in groups, and with their families. Emphasis on the role of the school social worker in a host setting that is bound by governmental statutes and regulations, and on relationships with teachers and school administrators, with other members of the professional team, and with community agencies and groups.
Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice I.
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19:910:521
Advanced Direct Practice: Intervention with Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Misusers (3)
Various models and intervention approaches to working with alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) misusers. Families and other client systems addressed. Emphasis on assessment to identify ATOD problems in a variety of practice settings with various populations, and on matching interventions according to the client system, the substance(s) misused, the extent of misuse, personal resources, social networks, and availability of services. Research findings and theoretical perspectives are central.
Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice I.
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19:910:522
Advanced Practice in Community Mental Health Care (3)
Beginning with a historical overview of asylums and state mental hospitals, the course examines deinstitutionalization and community services for persons with serious mental illness. Empowerment theory is used to explore contemporary issues in practice, especially hospital recidivism, incarceration, housing, forms of outpatient care, intervention adherence, care satisfaction, and life quality.
Prerequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice I.
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19:910:525
Advanced Practice with Older Adults and Their Families (3)
This course will examine social work practice theories, multidimensional assessment, and intervention approaches and skills as they apply to practice with older adults and their families. Diversity among older people will be emphasized, including discussion of the lifelong integration of personal life experiences and client populations that range from well elders to older adults and their families who are facing end-of-life issues. Late life opportunities, transitions, and challenges will be addressed. Implications for policy that impacts older persons will also be included.
Prerequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice I.
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19:910:528
Human Resource Management (3)
Core theories, dynamics, functions and ethics of human resource management in nonprofit and public human services organizations are analyzed with particular focus on the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to successfully recruit, retain and develop the workforce necessary to achieve the mission of the organization. The substantive areas covered in this course include industry standard human resource policies and procedures in the areas of staff recruitment and selection; developing classification and compensation systems; establishing employee performance standards and conducting performance evaluations; developing and supporting a diverse workforce; employee and organized labor relations; maintaining a safe, discrimination and harassment free workplace; training and professional development; and strategic human resource planning.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses.
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19:910:529
Adolescents at Risk (3)
This course will explore the developmental stage of adolescence (from ages 12-19 years), with a specific focus on how at-risk youth populations navigate the normative tasks associated with this stage. The course will pay particular attention to understanding vulnerable youth populations and how social workers can help identify those in at-risk situations and how micro, mezzo, and macro resources can be implemented to ameliorate or minimize the harm--within a developmental context--associated with involvement in an at-risk category. Policy implications related to at-risk groups will also be explored.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses.
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19:910:530
Advanced Direct Practice Using Brief-Solution Focused Therapy (3)
In this course, students will learn to apply this strength-based, brief model of treatment to assist adults, children, couples and families to discover their own resilience and problem-solving abilities. Although the focus of this course will be on clinical practice, implications for case management as well as intervening with larger systems, such as agencies and communities, will also be addressed.
Pre or corequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice I.
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19:910:533
Special Topics in Social Work Research (3)
Selected issues pertinent to a wide variety of social work research areas. Topics may differ each time the course is offered.
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19:910:534
Child Welfare Management (3)
Core theories, dynamics, functions, policies, and ethics associated with the management of private and public child welfare services are analyzed and examined with particular focus on the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to successfully lead organizations providing such services in the environment of today and the future. Emphasis is on the adaptation of generic external (public and community relations, media and legislative relations, etc.) and internal (human resource, budget, finance management, information technology, etc.) skills to the child welfare setting and specific issues associated with the management of child welfare functions such as foster care and adoption, residential care, family preservation, forensic investigations in intrafamilial and institutional settings, legal affairs, programs treating co-occurring disorders, and others.
Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice I or 19:910:535 Management Practice and Theory.
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19:910:535
Management Practice and Theory (3)
Core theories, elements, and functions of human services management are analyzed with a particular focus on the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to lead successful public and private human service agencies in the environment of today and the future. Emphasis on internal management functions, such as budget and finance, human resource administration, applications of information technology, and governance relationships; and on external functions, such as legislative, media, and community relationships. Crosscutting topics enhance skills in leadership, mediation, and conflict resolution.
Corequisite: Must be taken concurrently with NPPM and specialization-appropriate field education placement.
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19:910:536
Program and Strategic Planning (3)
Processes and technologies of strategic planning and program development in human service organizations from problem formulation through program design, resource mobilization, and implementation. Special attention to designing programs and meeting the needs of populations at risk.
Prerequisite: 19:910:535.
Corequisite: Must be taken concurrently with NPPM and specialization-appropriate field education placement.
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19:910:537
Financial Management (3)
Overview of fiscal responsibilities of social agency executives, including the accounting process, financial statements, budgeting internal controls, audits, tax compliance, and fund accounting.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation.
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19:910:538
Law and Social Work (3)
Law in health and human services. Reading, using, and finding law. Law in practice in relation to law on the books. Topics include due process, equal protection, discrimination, confidentiality and duty to warn, child abuse, domestic violence, AIDS, sexual harassment, mental health, developmental disabilities, courtroom testimony, malpractice, and administrative liability.
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19:910:539
Community Organization (3)
Focus on identifying, developing, and testing community organizing skills, with special attention to leadership development and community analyses.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses.
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19:910:540
Supervision and Consultation (3)
Analysis of supervisory roles in human service organizations. Covers the three functions of supervision: supportive, educational, and administrative. Emphasis on frontline supervision.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses.
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19:910:541
Fundraising and Marketing (3)
Introduction to current strategies and procedures for identifying, obtaining, and maintaining a diverse portfolio of social service funding sources; review of methodologies for packaging, marketing, and selling program proposals to social service funders and consumers.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses.
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19:910:543
Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees (3)
Through this course, the students will explore the ever-changing dimensions facing social workers who work with refugee and immigrant clients. The social work profession was founded on aiding the cultural adjustment of newcomers to the United States. Topics include: becoming a refugee, the international experience before arrival in the United States, the refugee experience, cultural adjustment, culture shock, post-traumatic stress, and war and refugee trauma. Special groups will be discussed including: survivors of torture, victims of human trafficking, detainees, and asylum seekers. Special attention will be paid to family issues, intergroup conflicts, and intergenerational issues. Post 9-11 issues facing refugees and immigrants will be discussed as well as the role that social workers can play in the fight against anti-immigrant policies, sanctions, and discriminatory practices.
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19:910:545
International Social Work (3)
This course explores international social work, past and present, and the application of social work to vulnerable groups within the global context of today. Students will learn about different social services delivery systems around the globe and initiatives aimed at reforming systems of care (with an emphasis on developing countries). Students will explore their international career goals through the focused exploration of a specific development issue within a country or region of the globe.
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19:910:547
Loss across the Life Span (3)
Loss is a universal human experience, asserts Bertha Simos, yet we have a tendency to only acknowledge losses due to death as worthy of therapeutic attention. This course will address many types of loss that occur across the life span and will incorporate a developmental approach to loss and grief. The evolution of grief theory from Freud, Lindemann and Kubler-Ross, through Rando, Klass, Silverman, Nickman and Neimeyer will be an additional focus.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses.
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19:910:549
Developing and Implementing Treatment Methods (3)
Practice Model Development affords advanced social work students an opportunity to conceptualize, operationalize and actualize a treatment protocol designed to address a particular biopyschosocial problem as it relates to a population of their choice. During the course, students will develop a stage-by-stage model of practice that is guided by knowledge and informed by theory. Students will also design a number of systematic interventions that are amenable to practice evaluation. This course is guided by the longstanding questions with respect to treatment: WHAT to do, HOW to do it, and WHY it is being done.
Prerequisites: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses and Advanced Direct Practice I.
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19:910:560
Current Issues in Developmental Disabilities (3)
This course is designed to prepare the social worker to be an effective practitioner in the field of developmental disabilities. This course also examines the complexity of social issues and how they affect social work practice including the issue of current legislation and policies.
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19:910:561
Group Dynamics (3)
Emphasizes the study of small groups, both cognitively and experientially, by focusing on theory and research about the processes, structures, and functions of small groups as they relate to social work practice in human services.
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19:910:562
Understanding the Impact of Death and Terminal Illness (3)
Life consequences of various ways of understanding death; attempts to cope. Social work intervention with dying individuals, their families, and the bereaved; ethical issues.
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19:910:564
Women's Issues (3)
Examines women in different parts of the world, the institutional factors and values of society that impact personal roles, status, and discrimination of women, and the social and individual problems that affect women because of their gender. Feminist theories and feminist practice that facilitate institutional and individual change discussed.
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19:910:566
Family Violence (3)
Examination of the definitions and scope of family violence in today's society. Focus on the prevalence, etiology, myths, and dynamics of child physical abuse, incest, date rape, marital rape, sibling violence, women battering, and elder abuse and neglect. Includes a review of the issues, policies, programs, and services aimed at remedying and eliminating violence in the home.
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19:910:567
Child Sexual Abuse: Assessment and Intervention (3)
Focuses on the initial assessment, intervention, and management of child sexual abuse from a multidisciplinary perspective. Specific topics include personal values and reactions to child sexual abuse, conceptual frameworks, psychosocial dynamics, offenders, investigative interviewing, crisis intervention, child growth and development, medical management, and preparing for court testimony.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses.
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19:910:569
Social Work Perspectives on AIDS (3)
Impact of HIV infection and AIDS on the individual, family, society, and institutions that provide care. Political, social, legal, ethical, spiritual, and public health issues; perspectives of people living with HIV infection and AIDS needed to inform practice and policy.
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19:910:571
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (3)
Action of drugs, epidemiology; consequences of ATOD use, abuse, and addiction; and issues of prevention, intervention, and evaluation addressed. Attention given to various populations. Research findings and theoretical perspectives are central.
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19:910:572
Gerontology (3)
Survey of research literature on the aged as a population group and aging as a process. Social, economic, physiological, and psychological aspects of aging; prevalent theories of aging; social issues in both national and international perspectives; assessment and intervention with the elderly.
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19:910:585
Issues in Social Policy: Children and Families (3)
Models of policy analysis applied to children and families' issues and problems. Content addresses understanding of values and sociopolitical forces that define problems; populations affected; current policies and programs and their impact; service delivery and resource allocation; unmet needs; trends; and analysis of political processes and change strategies.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses. Required for students in the children and family specialization. To be taken during the final year of the M.S.W. program.
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19:910:586
Issues in Social Policy: Alcohol and Other Drugs (3)
Models of policy analysis applied to children and families issues and problems. Content addresses understanding of values and sociopolitical forces that define problems; populations affected; current policies and programs and their impact; service delivery and resource allocation; unmet needs; trends; and analysis of political processed and change strategies.
This course is an elective; however, it also meets the Issues in Social Policy requirement for those students with a specialization in Health, Mental Health, and Aging only. This course will not meet the Issues in Social Policy requirement for any students with a specialization in Children and Families.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses.
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19:910:587
Issues in Social Policy: Health, Mental Health, and Aging (3)
Models of policy analysis applied to health, mental health, and aging issues and problems. Addresses understanding of values and sociopolitical forces that define problems; populations affected; current policies and programs and their impact; service delivery and resource allocation; unmet needs; trends; and analysis of political processes and change strategies.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses. Required for students in the Health, Mental Health, and Aging specialization. To be taken during the final year of the M.S.W. program.
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19:910:595
Methods of Social Work Research II (3)
Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of agency programs and individual practice. Participation in hands-on small group research projects to cover all phases of the research process and use of computer technology.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses.
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19:910:600
Field Practicum III (3)
Opportunities provided to become competent in providing advanced social work services and the applying theory and concepts to practice in preparation for advanced professional practice.
Prerequisites: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses and 19:910:509 Field Education Practicum II. Specialization and concentration specific. To be taken concurrently with 19:910:511 (Direct Practice Concentration) or 19:910:535 (NPPM Concentration). Placement is determined by choice of concentration and specialization.
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19:910:601
Field Practicum IV (3)
Continued learning experiences in specialized settings in preparation for advanced professional practice.
Prerequisite: 19:910:600 Field Education Practicum III. To be taken concurrently with 19:910:512 (Direct Practice Concentration) or 19:910:536 (NPPM Concentration).
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19:910:610
Individual Study (BA)
A tutorial elective may be arranged with a faculty member in an area of mutual interest. Students may earn no more than 3 credits in any semester. Completion of a student/faculty contract and approval of the dean required.
Students may earn no more than 3 credits. Completion of a student/faculty contract and approval of the dean required.
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