Course Description: Provides an introductory understanding of human needs and society's response in the United States. The course will explore the nature of social problems and public policies that frame societal responses. We will examine the primary concept self-determination versus the expectation of social responsibility. Several social problems that emerge from these conflicts will be studied; including poverty, mental illness, substance abuse, crime, the aging population, race, gender and sexual orientation. Discussion of the student' social values, their relationship with social welfare programs and their cultural background will require them to challenge their values regarding the need for social welfare system.
Not open to students with credit for 220. BER/GEC/LAR course.
Course Description: This course is designed to examine personal, socioeconomic, political, and historical aspects of social oppression directed at certain minority populations. The major purpose is to look at how the issues of race, gender, class, and ethnicity affect the social welfare and well-being of Americans. The course revolves around three initial themes: class structure, ascribed status, and social inequality. Included will be comparative information regarding other societies and how race, gender, class and ethnicity affect the well-being of members of members of these societies.
Prereq: 10 cr hrs of course work in polit sci, psych, or sociol. Not open to students with credit for 600. GEC course.
Historical, philosophical and legal foundations giving rise to ethical principles which underlie social work practice.
Prereq: Sr Standing. Satisfies 4 credits for the LSW License Renewal.
Examines the various fields of social work practice; focuses on developing the ability to set practice goals, decide methods of intervention, implement, and evaluate consequences.
Certificate upon completion of 695.17, 695.18, 695.19
Prereq: 695.17. Certificate upon completion of 695.17, 695.18, 695.19
Prereq: 695.18. Certificate upon completion of 695.17, 695.18, 695.19
Examination of relevant issues in the professional practice of social work.
An analytical approach to problems, needs, and intervention for effective social work practice with the oppressed target populations of Appalacians and Blacks.
Prereq: Grad Standing
Historical and comparative analysis of social welfare systems; their relationship to change in the basic social institutions: family, church, government, and economic institutions.
Prereq: Soc work grad standing or permission of instructor.
The development and application of a conceptual model for social welfare policy and program analysis.
Prereq: 720
Critical examination of personality, interactional, small group, organizational and community concepts and approaches used in social work analysis of social dysfunction.
Prereq: Soc work grad standing
730.01 – Institutional and Organizational Behavior P G 3-5
Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
730.02 – Psychopathology and Deviance P G 3-5
Repeatable to a maximum of 6 cr hrs.
Social work theories and concepts related to individuals and families as they develop over the life span; systems model provides a unifying framework.
Prereq: Soc work grad standing or permission of instructor.
Continues applying the social work systems and life span frameworks to extra-familial environments (i.e. groups, communities and cultures) that affect individual development and social functioning.
Prereq: 733
Didactic and experiential learning of generalist practice skills. Open only to social work majors only of grad standing. This course is graded S/U.
Assessment, planning and contracting with various levels of client systems within the context of the profession’s commitment to an ecosystem perspective.
Prereq: 744
Intervention, evaluation and termination with various sized client systems within the context of the professions commitment to an ecosystem perspective.
Unique and specific aspects of social welfare policies and programs in selected fields of Social Work which augment Clinical and Social Planning/Administration concentrations.
Prereq: 721. Students may not register for more than a total of 9 cr hrs under this number; subdivisions not repeatable.
Understanding and application of the analytic model of social welfare policies and programs with special emphasis on the disadvantaged as applied to child and family social work practice.
Utilizing a social policy analytic framework; introduces social welfare policy issues and program organization.
Basic research methodology; the role of research in social work.
Prereq: Soc Work grad standing or permission of instructor.
Interpretation of social work data; quantitative techniques; designs of data analysis.
Prereq: Soc Work grad standing or permission of instructor.
Utilization and selection of methodological techniques and applications for evaluating practice design and program effectiveness.
Prereq: 770 and 771. Not open to students with credit for 875.01 or 875.03
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