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Integration of senior field practicum with academic content and concepts. Serves as the capstone experience. Taken with SOWK 455. Prereq: SOWK Foundation, Practice Sequence, and permission
- Prerequisites:
- SOWK Foundation, Practice Sequence, and permission
Culminating practicum experience with 32 hour per week placement in a social service setting with supervision provided by a degreed social worker. Taken with SOWK 450. Prereq: SOWK Foundation, Practice Sequence, and permission
- Prerequisites:
- SOWK Foundation, Practice Sequence, and permission
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This elective is for those students who desire to complete an advanced writing assignment in preparation for employment or graduate education.
Additional field experience in approved social agency.
Under faculty mentorship, students may pursue in-depth library or field research on topics of their choice.
This course provides an overview of social services that support the well-being of children and families in a diverse society. Students, regardless of disciplinary affiliation, identify personal and professional values, develop a working knowledge of the theories that inform practice with children and families, and understand the roles and legal responsibilities of child welfare workers and professionals from multiple disciplines in the delivery of child welfare services.
Co-morbid substance abuse and mental health disorders will be encountered by social workers in all areas of practice. Current research on dual diagnosis indicates integrated treatment of substance misuse and mental illness is the most effective approach to treatment. This course will provide an understanding of the intersection of multiple diagnoses, and enable social worker professionals to effectively treat multiple diagnoses in their area of practice. This course examines the interaction of addictive and other mental health disorders. Particular focus is placed on case-conceptualization, assessment, and intervention with multiply diagnosed clients in specific populations.
Issues, resources, and processes in working with the elderly and their families in the social service system.
This course is designed to provide upper level (junior and senior) undergraduate social work students with a comprehensive introduction to the epidemiology (scientific study of disease), etiology (causes of disease), history, policy, and treatment modalities of substance abuse from a person-in-environment and systems theory social work perspective.
Service delivery issues and skills for working in hospitals, nursing homes, and community programs.
Course provides an overview of intimate partner violence from a theoretical and evidence-based, social work perspective. Students learn about intervention strategies from direct practice to advocacy and policy change. Multiple systems are explored. The intersection of gender, class, sexual orientation, age, and culture with intimate partner violence is covered.
This course introduces students to the work of specialized instructional support personnel, who enhance the capacity of every student to learn. Emphasis will be placed on multidisciplinary collaboration that promotes student well-being and supportive school environments.
Service delivery issues, knowledge, and skills for providing social services within school services.
This course covers the evolution of school social work as a profession and the impact of the culture and climate of the school on practice. It examines how social diversity impacts academic achievement and the role of the school social worker in addressing disparities.
Course focuses on service delivery issues and skills, using a strengths-based, family systems, and empowerment approach for working with individuals with developmental and other disabilities and their families across the life span. Students hoping to do a practicum in a disability services setting should complete this course prior to beginning the practicum.
Social Work practice in public child welfare agencies is multi-faceted and uniquely challenging. Seven 1-credit modules are designed to offer maximum specialization in the study of direct (interventions with children, youth, and families) and indirect (policy and administration) practice in state, county, or tribal child welfare. Issues related to practice, policy, cultural responsiveness, and the application of social work ethics are addressed. This course can meet the elective requirement for MSW students, including Title IV-E child welfare stipend recipients. Previous experience or coursework in public child welfare is recommended. Course is taken, with advisement, for up to 7 credits.
This course provides students with the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills acquired in the school social work certificate program in a school-environment. In seminar students clarify and integrate theoretical and school-specific curriculum content with experiences.
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This foundational social work course focuses on direct generalist practice with individuals, families, and groups. The historical roots of the social work profession are examined to explicate its abolitionist, racist, classist, and oppressive underpinnings. Emphasis is placed on decolonizing practices whose aim is to dismantle systems of oppression utilizing anti-oppressive and anti-racist lenses. This course explores the knowledge, skills, values, and ethics of the social work profession and the principles that promote social, economic, and environmental justice and planetary well-being.
This course focuses on the critical application and critique of theoretical perspectives, models, and concepts in relationship to diverse people and their environments throughout lifespan development. Students will learn and apply theories related to human behavior and the person in the environment that focuses on individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Students will explore the impact of social structures such as poverty, oppression, and discrimination of people from diverse populations from micro- to macro-level systems.
The course provides students with an overview of the historical and contemporary social welfare system, with an emphasis on understanding the impact and legacy of racism and racial regulation and the structural determinants of poverty and economic inequality. Students develop skills in policy and social welfare program research, policy analysis, and developing policy position statements that are culturally informed, anti-racist and anti-oppressive and advance human rights and social, racial, economic and environmental justice.