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Fall 2015
Apr 25,2024 |
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| MSWK 501 - THEORY, PRACTICE AND FIELD INSTRUCTION I |
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Theory, Practice and Field I (TPF I) is the first in a required sequence of four social work theory, practice, and field instruction courses in the MSW Program. In TPF I, students gain a general overview of the history, philosophy, process, and efficacy of direct social work practice with individuals and families in diverse settings and of diverse identities. Students discover the various roles that generalist social workers take and the importance of working across a range of systems that includes individuals, couples, families, agencies, and communities. The field instruction component facilitates the development of the student in the profession by engaging the historic signature pedagogy of hands-on-learning. Through the resources of the Field Education Department, students will be placed in an agency for 200 hours of supervised practice. Students are expected to utilize critical thinking to link social work theories with appropriate practice skills, to critically evaluate their work I class and field, and to utilize research-informed practice to understand how agencies provide services.
0.000 TO 7.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 7.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Grad Social Work Department Course Attributes: MSW COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS |
| MSWK 502 - THEORY, PRACTICE AND FIELD INSTRUCTION II |
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Social Work Theory, Practice, and Field Instruction II (TPF II) builds on the values, knowledge and behavioral skills introduced in Social Work Practice I. In this course, students gain better understanding of short-term, crisis and extended interventions models; self-evaluation and evaluation of practice approaches and models; agency and community practice; advanced practice skills with individuals and families, and the process of termination. The field instruction component facilitates the development of the student in the profession by engaging the signature pedagogy of hands-on-learning. Through the resources of the Field Education Department, students will be placed in an agency for 200 hours (continued from TPF I) of supervised practice where students are expected to move to a competent level of performance as a generalist social worker.
0.000 TO 7.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 7.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Grad Social Work Department Course Attributes: MSW COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS |
| MSWK 503 - HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT I |
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Human Behavior and the Social Environment I (HBSE I) is the first of three courses in the Human Behavior sequence. HBSE I and HBSE II examine human development, and HBSE III covers psychosocial-pathology. This course introduces students to the salient aspects of the human condition. Learning emphasizes the reciprocal and transactional influences between persons and their environment and examining bio-psycho-social factors influencing human development throughout the life cycle. Known as person-in-environment, this interaction forms the basis of an ecological approach to human development, brining into focus current knowledge and theories regarding human behavior and the social environment as they influence each other. The course examines human development beginning with conception through middle childhood.
The course focuses on issues that deal with the self in an ecological context, with specific attention to the study of individual, physical, intellectual, and temperamental endowment in transaction with sociocultural norms and family patterns. The crises, struggles, conflicts, risks and opportunities associated with these conditions and transactions are explored. The emphasis is placed on differences and similarities in the life experience and lifestyles of men and women and minority groups. The relationship between individual experience and wider system forces is examined. Emphasis is placed on the capacity of the individual, groups and organizations, to improve their own life and their community’s in response to macro-system forces.
0.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Grad Social Work Department Course Attributes: MSW COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS |
| MSWK 504 - HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT II |
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Human Behavior in the Social Environment II (HBSE II) is the second course of three in a sequence that examines the reciprocal and transactional influences between people and their environment multi-dimensionally in the context of biophysical, familial, institutional and societal factors. A major focus is on development of the human biological, psychological and social structure occurring throughout the life span. The course stresses the centrality of culture, race, ethnicity, gender and the socioeconomic environment. This course pays particular attention to the development of human life and experience from adolescence through the adult life cycle.
Using systems theory as a critical theoretical underpinning, Human Behavior in the Social Environment II stresses a non-linear view of development in which there is a continuous reciprocal interchange and mutual impact among different systems (individual, family, group, community, organizations). Human Behavior in the Social Environment I covers the life cycle from birth to late childhood. Human Behavior in the Social Environment II continues from early adolescence to old age.
0.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Grad Social Work Department Course Attributes: MSW COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS |
| MSWK 505 - SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMS AND POLICIES I |
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Social Welfare Programs and Policies is a foundation course that prepares students with tools for critical thinking regarding major social policies and programs that affect human well-being or quality of life, as well as various aspects of social service delivery. Students will understand the ways in which direct social work practice responds to social policies and is shaped by them. At the foundation level, students will develop expertise to understand social policy content, policy actions of agencies, professional associations and political bodies, and the skills necessary to influence social policy.
0.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Lecture/Online, Online Course Grad Social Work Department Course Attributes: MSW COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS |
| MSWK 506 - SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH I |
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The first of two in the graduate social work research sequence, this course introduces the principles and methods of basic social work research. The development of both substantive research knowledge and methodological research are highlighted. The ethical conduct of research is taught within the context of social work purposes and values. The formulation of problems for study that address the social needs of diverse groups is emphasized. This course 1) fosters methods of research, 2) promotes a systematic examination of current knowledge, service delivery and outcomes, and 3) further the purposes of professional accountability.
0.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Grad Social Work Department Course Attributes: MSW COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS |
| MSWK 507 - CULTURAL DIVERSITY, RACISM, OPPRESSION AND PRIVILEGE |
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This course is designed to help students work more effectively with clients from diverse racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. From developmental and ecological systems perspectives, the course examines racism, sexism, ethnicity, ageism, homophobia, social class, and discrimination against persons with physical disabilities and illness, such as HIV/AIDS. Students will identify their own relationship to diversity and the factors of oppression and privilege that are relevant in social work practice. They will learn to cultivate a cultural consciouness through awareness of self, of the client’s identity through history and cultural contributions, and by paying attention to systems of oppressin and privilge that contribute to our own self-concept and our perceptions of others. The effect of these considerations will be viewed in the context of globalization, immigration, and current events that affect social work practice in urban America.
0.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Grad Social Work Department Course Attributes: MSW COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS |
| MSWK 508 - CLINICAL PRACTICE WITH GROUPS |
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This course is designed to provide students with knowledge and skills relevant to social work practice in groups. It is expected that students will learn basic skills through course readings, papers, videos/films and role-playing of the different approaches to social work with groups. This course builds upon the Human Behavior and Practice foundation courses, and is grounded in developmental, psychodynamic and cognitive theories and linked to fieldwork experience through in class assignments and class discussion. The course reviews the various ways groups are used in social work practice, i.e., socialization, social support, psychological treatment, self-help, advocacy and prevention. Particular attention is given to the recruitment and composition of groups, contracting and goal setting, leadership, structure of groups, phases of group development, group processing such as decision making, tension reduction, conflict resolution, termination and evaluation of evidenced based group interventions. Emphasis is given to how group work practice takes place with particular client systems and within current societal and professional contexts.
0.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Hybrid, Lecture, Online Course Grad Social Work Department Course Attributes: MSW COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS |
| MSWK 599 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE |
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0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture/Online Grad Social Work Department |
| MSWK 699 - TRANSFER ELECTIVE |
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0.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Schedule Types: Lecture/Online Grad Social Work Department |
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