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19:910:511
Advanced Direct Practice I (3)
Focuses 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 individuals, client groups, couples, and family systems. Case examples are drawn particularly from the client populations.
Prerequisites: Successful completion of professional foundation courses and statistics requirements.
Corequisite: Must be taken concurrently with an 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 are 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 an appropriate field education placement.
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19:910:513
Advanced Practice with Adolescents (3)
The 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.
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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.
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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. Addresses skills of crisis
intervention, case management, and discharge planning. Explores
professional practice as part of an interdisciplinary team.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of professional foundation courses.
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19:910:517
Advanced Practice in Mental Health (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 the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, text revision (DSM-IV-TR); psychotropic medications; case management; the treatment orientations to care; and special issues in work with children and adolescents.
Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511.
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19:910:518
Advanced Practice with Children (3)
Focuses on children (ages birth to 18), and the ways their development and circumstance as a dependent population affect the well-being of individuals and communities. As children generally reside in families, various family forms and risk statuses will be examined with a focus on anti-oppressive social work practice. Emphasis is on assessment of developmental aspects of child well-being and aspects of family well-being (with a broad and diverse definition of family); identification of risks, strengths, and resiliency factors; and sociological and psychological knowledge of how family and community contexts affect children. Intervention modalities include direct work with children and their families, case management, promotion of resilience, crisis intervention work with community service systems, and the use of the legal system.
Formerly Advanced Practice with Families and Children At Risk. Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511.
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19:910:519
Advanced Practice with Families (3)
Advanced practice with family systems, with
emphasis on a 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.
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19:910:520
Advanced 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.
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19:910:521
Advanced Practice with Addictive Behaviors (3)
A continuation of content taught in 19:910:571, this course focuses on various approaches to the evaluation, intervention, measurement, treatment, and relapse prevention of common addictive disorders, including those resulting from substance misuse, problem gambling, and compulsive overeating or sexual behavior. Evaluation of the biopsychosocial etiological factors that bear on the formation of addictive behavior patterns, as well as erroneous thinking patterns and cognitive triggers that lead to habituating these patterns over time. Instructs students on utilizing measures for screening, conducting diagnostic evaluations using motivational interviewing and stages of change, formulating a treatment plan, and conducting session-by-session treatment for various DSM-IV-TR-based addictive disorders. Students will also learn necessary components for posttreatment relapse prevention and considerations in pretreatment intervention. Examines the impact of age, race, gender, social class, culture, ethnicity, spirituality, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, and physical and mental ability on recovery from addictive disorders.
Formerly Advanced Practice: Intervention with Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Misusers. Prerequisites: 19:910:571, and pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511.
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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 illnesses. Empowerment
theory is used to explore contemporary issues in practice, especially
hospital recidivism, incarceration, housing, forms of outpatient care,
intervention adherence, care satisfaction, and quality of life.
Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511.
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19:910:525
Advanced Practice with Older Adults and Their Families (3)
Examines 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 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.
Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511.
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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 an 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)
Explores the developmental stage of adolescence (from ages 12-19 years),
with specific focus on how at-risk youth populations navigate the
normative tasks associated with this stage. Attention given 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 Solution-Focused Therapy (3)
Students 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.
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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.) 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
disorder, and others.
Pre- or corequisites: 19:910:511 and 600, or 19:910:535 and 600.
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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 public and private human
service agencies in the environment of today and the future successfully. 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.
Prerequisites: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses and statistics.
Corequisites: Must be taken concurrently with Nonprofit and Public Management concentration and 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
at-risk populations.
Prerequisite: 19:910:535. Corequisites: Must be taken concurrently with Nonprofit and Public Management concentration and appropriate field education placement.
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19:910:537
Financial Management (3)
Overview of fiscal responsibilities of social agency executives. The accounting process, financial statements, budgeting, internal controls, audits, tax compliance, and fund accounting.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses.
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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)
Focuses on identifying, developing, and testing community organizing
skills. Special attention given 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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19:910:542
Social Welfare Policy and Services II: Health and Aging (3)
Models
of policy analysis applied to understanding the strengths and
limitations of the U.S. health care system and services, as well as
policies, programs, and services for the aging population. Addresses
understanding of values and sociopolitical forces that define problems,
affected populations, current policies and programs and their impact,
service delivery and resource allocation, unmet needs, trends and
analysis of political processes, and change strategies.
Prerequisites: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses.
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19:910:543
Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees (3)
Explores
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, posttraumatic 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 conflict, 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)
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 service
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 developmental issue within a country or region
of the globe.
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19:910:547
Loss across the Lifespan (3)
This course will address many types of loss that occur across the lifespan and will incorporate a developmental approach to loss and grief.
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 long-standing 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. Must also be in the Direct Practice concentration.
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19:910:560
Current Issues in Developmental Disabilities (3)
Prepares the social worker to be an effective practitioner in the field
of developmental disabilities and 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)
Examines life consequences of various ways of understanding death and
attempts to cope; social work intervention with dying individuals,
their families, and the bereaved; and 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 on personal roles, status, and discrimination of women; and the social and individual problems that affect women because of their gender. Feminist theories and feminist practices that facilitate institutional and individual changes are discussed.
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19:910:566
Violence and Abuse in Adulthood (3)
Examines the definitions, scope, and impact of violence and abuse in adulthood. Explores the spectrum of theories and conceptual frameworks used to explain violence. In particular, the course focuses on the prevalence, etiology, myths, and dynamics of intimate partner violence (IPV), sexual violence, trafficking, and elder abuse. Perspectives on working with both victims/survivors and perpetrators are presented, with an understanding of the role of cultural and environmental contexts. The course includes a review of the conceptual frameworks used to guide current services, interventions, prevention efforts, and policies aimed at remedying and eliminating violence in our society. A special emphasis is placed on the advocacy role of the social worker in creating social change.
Formerly Family Violence. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses.
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19:910:567
Violence and Abuse in Childhood (3)
Examines the definitions, scope, and impact of violence and abuse in childhood. Explores the spectrum of theories and conceptual frameworks used to explain violence. In particular, the course focuses on the prevalence, etiology, myths, and dynamics of child physical abuse, childhood neglect, child sexual abuse, sibling abuse, and trafficking. Perspectives on working with both victims/survivors and perpetrators are presented, with an understanding of the role of culture and environmental context. The course includes a review of the conceptual frameworks used to guide current services, interventions, prevention efforts, and policies aimed at remedying and eliminating violence against children in our society.A special emphasis is placed on the advocacy role of the social worker in creating social change.
Formerly Child Sexual Abuse: Assessment and Intervention. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses.
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19:910:569
Social Work Perspectives on AIDS (3)
Explores the impact of HIV infection and AIDS on the individual, family, society, and institutions that provide care. Examines the political, social, legal, ethical, spiritual, and public health issues and the perspectives of people living with HIV infection and AIDS that are needed to inform practice and policy.
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19:910:571
Understanding Addictive Behaviors (3)
Focuses on the etiology, prevalence, and policy implications of common addictive behaviors, including alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD); pathological gambling; and compulsive overeating or sexual behavior. Students will learn to evaluate the pharmacological mechanisms of dependence, components of addiction-related behavioral change, and issues involved in prevention, intervention, and evaluation of these addictive behaviors.The course will also examine the impact of age, race, gender, social class, culture, ethnicity, spirituality, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, and physical and mental ability on patterns of addiction. Content includes major theoretical perspectives on biological, sociological, and psychological bases for addiction and the impetus for change, and an examination of the empirical evidence for various perspectives.
Formerly Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs.
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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; and assessment and intervention with the elderly.
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19:910:582
Spirituality and Social Work (3)
Provides a
framework of knowledge, values, skills, and experiences for spiritually
sensitive social work. Students develop skills and insight into
responding competently and ethically to diverse spiritual and religious
perspectives in social work settings with individuals, organizations,
and communities. Attention given to collaboration
with faith-based organizations, as spirituality enters into the
dimension of policy and service delivery and "secular" and "spiritual" come together to address human need in society. Attention also given to both micro and macro aspects of social work.
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19:910:584
Social Welfare Policy and Services II: Violence against Women and Children (3)
Models of analysis applied to policies affecting adult and childhood survivors of physical, sexual, and other forms of violence. Addresses understanding of values and sociopolitical forces that define problems, affected populations, 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.
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19:910:585
Social Welfare Policy and Services II: Children and Families (3)
Models of policy analysis applied to children and family issues and
problems. Addresses understanding of values and sociopolitical forces
that define problems, affected populations, current policies and
programs and their impact, service delivery and resource
allocation, unmet needs, trends, and analysis of political processes and
change strategies.
Formerly Issues in Social Policy: Children and Families. To be taken during the final year of the M.S.W. program. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses.
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19:910:586
Issues in Social Policy: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (3)
Models of policy analysis applied to children and family issues and
problems. Content addresses understanding of values and sociopolitical
forces that define problems, affected populations, 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. This course is an elective.
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19:910:587
Social Welfare Policy and Services II: Mental Health (3)
Models of policy analysis applied to populations affected by mental
health problems. Addresses understanding of values and
sociopolitical forces that define problems, including affected
populations, current policies and programs and their impact, service
delivery and resource allocation, unmet needs, trends, and analysis of political processes and change strategies.
Formerly Issues in Social Policy: Health, Mental Health, and Aging. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses.
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19:910:588
Direct Practice: Theory and Models (3)
Introduces students to the ways that theory and evidence are used to guide intervention with individuals, families, and groups. Focuses on the ways that effective direct practice intervention must integrate different sources of knowledge: evidence (what has worked in the past with people with similar problems), theory (frames of reference for understanding how problems are generated and solved), clinical wisdom, and client preferences. Students will learn straightforward rubrics for locating and evaluating research evidence that may be used to generate intervention possibilities. Students will study and critique several key intervention theories and models (psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral, family systems, group work) and apply them to case materials. Finally, the class will explore processes and problems that cut across direct practice models, such as the enhancement of change motivation.
This elective may only be taken by students during the foundation year of the program.
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19:910:594
Qualitative Research Methods for International Development (3)
Provides an introduction to the paradigm and methods of qualitative research. With an emphasis on application to international social work
and international development, students learn about data collection methods that involve immersion in situations of everyday life and
learning the "whole of culture" within the framework of an identified problem and/or theoretical question. Students design a proposed
research study.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of professional foundation courses.
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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.
Prerequisites: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses and statistics requirement.
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19:910:600
Field Education Practicum III (3)
Opportunities provided to become competent in providing advanced social work services and applying theory and concepts to practice in
preparation for advanced professional practice.
Prerequisites: Successful completion of the professional foundation courses and 19:910:509. Concentration specific. To be taken concurrently with 19:910:511 (Direct Practice concentration) or 19:910:535 (Nonprofit and Public Management concentration). Placement is determined by choice of concentration.
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19:910:601
Field Education Practicum IV (3)
Continued learning experiences in specialized settings in preparation for advanced professional practice.
Prerequisites: 19:910:600. To be taken concurrently with 19:910:512 (Direct Practice concentration) or 19:910:536 (Nonprofit and Public Management concentration).
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19:910:610
Individual Study (BA)
A tutorial elective arranged with a faculty member in an area of mutual interest. Students may earn no more than 3 credits.
Completion of a student/faculty contract and approval of the associate dean for student services is required.
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19:910:800
Matriculation Continued (0)
May be used only if a student has a written, official leave of absence granted by the associate dean for student services. Students may not take a leave of absence during the first semester of the program and must be in good academic standing.
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