Spring 2012
- SW 5313—Social Work with Older Adults
The practice components of social work with older adults including assessment, intervention, and case management. Taught from the perspective of bio-psycho-social strengths and challenges and within the context of current social policy and delivery systems.
- SW 5316—Brief Treatment and the Task-Centered Approach
Advent/prominence of brief-treatment models in work with individuals, families, and groups. Theoretical/empirical bases. Practice with diverse populations in managed care. Skill training, supervised practice.
- SW 5512—Developing and Managing an Agency Budget
Preparing/monitoring agency budgets, interpreting/utilizing financial reports. Information systems. Fiduciary responsibilities geared to ethics, organizational mission, and positive client outcomes.
- SW 5514—Strategic Risk Management in Agencies
Strategies to minimize risk to agency, its assets, and its resources. Relationship between mission, risk management, and board role. Agency internal systems, controls, and prevention strategies. Liability/insurance. Agency exposure to risk, including volunteer program management.
- SW 5519—Mediation and Conflict Resolution
Develop mediator skills for making informed decisions regarding the appropriateness of mediation for conflicts that frequently confront social worker practitioners such as divorce, neighborhood disputes, conflicts between parents and adolescents, conflicts between spouses, and conflicts between crime victims and offenders.
- SW 5810—Seminar: Special Topics
Topics specified in Class Schedule.
- SW 5813—Child Welfare and the Law
Social work practice in juvenile court. Child abuse/neglect reporting laws, risk assessment, reasonable efforts, case plan, custody proceedings, permanency planning, termination of parental rights, child testimony, social worker testimony, adoption laws.
- SW 5903—Substance Abuse and Social Work
Students gain skills in eliminating the detrimental impact of substance use disorders at multiple levels (families, groups, organizations, and communities) through an ability to identify, assess, intervene, and evaluate those struggling with substance abuse and dependency throughout the life span.
- SW 5909—Social Work With Involuntary Clients
Includes theory, ethics, effectiveness, and intervention methods for work with client systems that experience involuntary contact with a social worker. Interventions at micro, mezzo, and macro levels are included. Practice in varied settings such as child welfare, mental health, corrections, and public schools as well as practice related to organizational responses to change.
- SW 5991—Independent Study in Social Work
Independent study in areas of special interest to students and faculty.
- SW 8010—Seminar: Field Practicum I
Integrates classroom learning with direct experience of a social work field internship. Professional support/learning groups focus on student-and facilitator-identified issues. Students discuss professional/personal biases, ethical dilemmas, and supervisory issues. Cross-cultural understanding, implications of cross-cultural practice.
- SW 8020—Field Practicum II
Integrates classroom learning within a concentration with the direct experience of an internship. Students expand competency in cross-cultural practice.
- SW 8030—Advanced Standing Social Work Practicum
Integrates classroom learning with direct experience of a social work field internship. Professional support/learning groups discuss issues raised in field placement. Groups focus on professional/personal biases, ethical dilemmas, supervisory issues, cross-cultural sharing, and implications of students' privilege/power in relation to client systems.
- SW 8041—Specialized Field Placement
Field placement added to required foundation/concentration field placements (or to concentration placement for advanced standing students).
- SW 8152—Social Work Practice Methods: Families and Groups
Develop foundational knowledge and skills in relationship building, engagement, interviewing, and assessment with families and groups using the ecological-systems theoretical framework and resiliency-based approach.
- SW 8211—Macro Social Work Practice and Policy Advocacy
Policy analysis, development, implementation, community development, social action, social planning. Ecological, problem-solving, empowerment perspectives, policy/methods. Theories of organizational/community development/change.
- SW 8315—Mood Disorders: New Directions in Clinical Care
Depression. Current research from biochemical, genetic, familial, and sociocultural perspectives. Gender, racial, ethnic, class, and sexual preference issues concerning prevalence, assessment and treatment.
- SW 8333—FTE: Master's
- SW 8362—Social Work Interventions With Families
Theory and models of social work intervention with families. Theoretical constructs of traditional/emerging models of social work practice with families. Develop assessment and intervention skills based on a systems perspective of the family as the center of focus and in its environmental context.
- SW 8444—FTE: Doctoral
- SW 8503—Personnel Leadership and Management
Skills/principles in effective leadership. Legal/strategic considerations in personnel management. Workplace diversity. Selection, hiring, and development of paid/unpaid staff. Evaluation, compensation, and benefits. Promotions and staff termination. Management of work groups and collaboratives.
- SW 8525—Global Perspectives on Social Welfare, Peace, and Justice
Role of international social welfare in meeting basic human needs and promoting human rights, social justice, and peace. Theories, models, and strategies of social welfare in different economic/political systems. Emphasizes Third World nations. Skills for social workers and other professionals in the helping professions.
- SW 8666—Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits
- SW 8693—Directed Study
Independent study under tutorial guidance.
- SW 8694—Directed Research
Individual or small group research inquiry translating introductory course content into research design and study. Projects may be conducted in conjunction with field learning experiences or other coursework.
- SW 8804—Child Welfare Policy
Develops advanced policy knowledge and skills for social workers practicing in or collaborating with public or private child welfare services.
- SW 8806—Health and Mental Health Policy
Critically engage in health and mental health policy debate, analysis, development, and implementation.
- SW 8841—Social Work Research Methods
Develops foundational research methods knowledge/skills fundamental to evidence-based social work practice.
- SW 8851—Social Welfare History and Historical Research Methods
Methods of historical research in, and survey of, history/evolution of social welfare/work, using primary/secondary source materials.
- SW 8872—Social Work Research Seminar II
Methods/design of quasi-experiments, surveys, descriptive research. Grounded theory. Analysis of quantitative/qualitative data.
- SW 8875—Research Practicum
Experience in conduct of research, following completion of [8871] and [8872]. Students work under faculty direction.
- SW 8888—Thesis Credit: Doctoral
- SW 8901—Assessment and Treatment of Trauma
Sociopolitical context of trauma, its impact on diverse populations of individuals, families, and communities. Evidence-based approaches for addressing trauma on multiple system levels. Applications to case conceptualization, treatment planning.
- SW 8902—Social Work Supervision, Consultation, and Leadership
Principles, practice skills, models of supervision: administration, education, support. Power/authority, leadership, use of self in supervising. Ethics, risk management, legal obligations. Simulated skills practice, experiential learning.
May Session Courses
May 26th - June 12th
- SW 5991—Independent Study in Social Work
Independent study in areas of special interest to students and faculty.
- SW 8693—Directed Study
Independent study under tutorial guidance.
- SW 8694—Directed Research
Individual or small group research inquiry translating introductory course content into research design and study. Projects may be conducted in conjunction with field learning experiences or other coursework.
- SW 8902—Social Work Supervision, Consultation, and Leadership
Principles, practice skills, models of supervision: administration, education, support. Power/authority, leadership, use of self in supervising. Ethics, risk management, legal obligations. Simulated skills practice, experiential learning.
