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Courses: M.S.W.(SOCW)

6194 : Field Practicum I - Foundation
Cr. 1 (0-0). Foundation semester field practicum in an approved affiliated agency.

6294 : Field Practicum II - Advanced
Cr. 2 (0-0). Prerequisites: SOCW 6194. Development of advanced skills in an approved affiliated agency.

6304: Women's Issues
Cr. 3. (3-0). An examination of selected social, political, and economic issues pertaining to women in American society. Particular attention is given to social policy and practice implications.

6354: Managing Human Services Organizations
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: successful completion of the foundation curriculum, or consent of instructor. Theories, skills, and methods for effective planning and managing in human services organizations.

7191: Field Practicum Elective I
Cr. 1. (0-0). Prerequisites: SOCW 6194, SOCW 6294 or advisor approval. Elective fieled practicum (120 clock hours) in an approved affiliated agency.

7198:7298:7398: Special Problems
Cr. 1-3 per semester. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor, and advisor's approval.

7260: Integrative Seminar in Social Work and Public Health
Cr. 2 (2-0). Provides students with a structured seminar to assist them in synthesizing and integrating concepts central to social work and public health; required for students in the concurrent Master of Social Work and Masters of Public Health degree program.

7291: Field Practicum Elective II
Cr. 2. (0-0). Prerequisites: SOCW 6194, SOCW 6294 or advisor approval. Elective fieled practicum (240 clock hours) in an approved affiliated agency.

7297: Selected Topics in Social Work
Cr.2. (2.0). Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Topics will vary; may be taken more than once.

7307: Social Work and the Law
Cr. 3. (3-0). Examines the interrelationship of law and social work and the interpretation and application of law by social workers and attorneys on behalf of clients. Study of the perspectives, rights, and obligations of parents and children, social work consumers and clients, agency service providers, and professional practitioners.

7320 : Empowerment
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Methods and skills for building collaborative alliance with client/community systems to increase access to and control of needed resources. Emancipatory interventions and multicultural practice are emphasized.

7321: Multicultural Practice
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Methods and skills for effective practice in oppressed urban communities or with multicultural constituencies such as African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, gay men, lesbian women, and the poor.

7322: Feminist Practice
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Focuses on the psychology and sociology of women with emphasis on the development of skills necessary for feminist social work practice at the individual, family, and community levels.

7323: Organizational Behavior and Change
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Examines organizational group behavior in in Human Service Organizations (HSO). Focuses on developing assessment, interactional, and organizational skills to improve organizational effectiveness.

7329 : Affecting Social Policy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Provides an understanding of political systems and teaches the skills to affect policy in the legislative as well as administrative arenas.

7330: Fiscal Management and Budgeting
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Discussion, analysis, and implementation of financing and budgeting theories and techniques applicable to planning, operating, and developing social services.

7331 : Social Work Intervention with Older Adults
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Focuses on aging as a life cycle process. Adaptational problems of older adults are examined and intervention strategies are emphasized.

7332: Long-Term Care Practice
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Focuses on the skills, delivery, organization, and financing of community based and institutional services for adults who are functionally disabled, physically or mentally.

7338: Community Empowerment with Elders of Color
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Practice elective integrating foundation curriculum, knowledge of community empowerment, and multicultural practice with elders of color.

7340: Clinical Social Work Practice with Children and Adolescents
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Focuses on intervention strategies for practice with children and adolescents. Includes explorations of problems common to these client groups.

7343: Social Work Practice with Families
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Assessment and intervention skills with various types of families using psychodynamic, experiential/humanistic, systemic, structural, communication/strategic, behavioral and feminist approaches.

7344: Family Violence
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Focuses on major theories of family violence and their practice implications. Emphasis is on developing practice skills in work with adult and child victims/survivors and with perpetrators.

7346: Social Work Practice with Families in Transition
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Exploration and analysis of the knowledge and skills needed to enhance services and treatment to separated and reconstituted families.

7347: School Social Work Practice
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Focuses on the development of school social work programs and coordination of services in schools and between schools and communities. Emphasis is given to social work roles serving children, their families, and school personnel.

7351: Supervision and Consultation in Social Work Organizations
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Philosophy, principles and methods of supervision and consultation used in clinical practice and administrative planning.

7353: Program Development and Proposal Writing
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Seminar workshop in program development and proposal writing.

7354: Managing Human Service Organizations.
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Theories, skills and methods for effective planning and managing in human service organizations.

7356: Social Work Practice with Groups in Clinical Settings
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Theories and concepts of interventions with small groups emphasizing roles and skills of social workers in a variety of clinical settings.

7365: Crisis Intervention
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Provides theoretical and substantive content that will enable students to gain knowledge, understanding, and skill in relation to crisis intervention in social work practice.

7366: Grief and Bereavement Therapy
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Stages of grief and bereavement with a variety of social treatment interventions to assist the bereaved client in dealing with the grieving process.

7368: HIV Disease and Social Work Practice
Cr. 3.(3-0). Prerequisite: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. In-depth examination of the emotional, physical, economic, sociopolitical, and research aspects of HIV giving special attention to populations at risk.

7369: Volunteer Programs and Management
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Methods and skills for developing and managing volunteer programs in human service agencies. Volunteer roles, job design, rewards, and supervision. Working with volunteer boards, task forces, and committees.

7373: Human Sexuality and Social Work
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Examines human sexuality from an integrated practice perspective and includes content relevant to children and families, aging, health, mental health, and political social work.

7374: Mediation for Social Workers
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Concepts regarding conflict and conflict resolution with emphasis on teaching a generic mediation model applicable to social work practice.

7377: Drugs in Society
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Successful completion of foundation curriculum or consent of instructor. Examines current bio-psycho-social problems of alcohol and drug use, abuse, and addiction with focus on historical antecedents, pharmacological action, and factors associated with alcohol and drug taking behavior. Implications for policy and social work practice are emphasized.

7384: Field Practicum III
Cr. 3. (0-0). Prerequisites: SOCW 6194, SOCW 6294 or advisor approval; completion of or concurrent enrollment in clinical track course. Supervised advanced clinical field practicum in an approved affiliated agency; requires 360 clock hours.

7388: Field Practicum III - Leadership, Administration, Advocacy
Cr. 3. (0-0). Prerequisites: SOCW 6194, SOCW 6294 or advisor approval; completion of or concurrent enrollment in LAA track course. Supervised advanced leadership/admin/advocacy field practicum in an approved affiliated agency; requires 360 clock hours.

7391: Field Practicum Elective III
Cr. 3. (0-0). Prerequisites: SOCW 6194, SOCW 6294 or advisor approval. Elective filed practicum (360 clock hours) in an approved affiliated agency.

7397: Selected Topics in Social Work
Cr.3.(3.0). Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Topics will vary; may be taken more than once.

7399:7699: Research Thesis
Cr. 3-6. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.

7494: Field Practicum IV - Clinical Social Work Practice
Cr. 4. (0-0). Prerequisites: SOCW 7384 and advisor approval. Supervised advanced internship in an approved agency; requires a minimum of 360 clock hours and an integrative paper.

7395: Field Practicum IV - Leadership Administration and Advocacy
Cr. 3. (0-0). Prerequisites: SOCW 7388, and advisor approval. Supervised advanced internship in an approved agency; requires 360 clock hours and an integrative paper.

Courses: Ph.D. (SOCW)

8115: Integrative Colloquium
Cr.1.(1-1). Prerequisite: doctoral standing. Varied topics such as writing for publication, integrating specialization into social work practice, writing dissertation proposals, topics in social work education, and pedagogical methods. Peer review of research ideas with critiques and process reports. May be repeated.

8198: 8298: 8398: Independent Study
Cr. 1. (0-0). Prerequisites: Doctoral standing and consent of instructor. Allow students to pursue specialized learning through work with individual faculty.

8320: Multivariate Statistics I
Cr.3.(3-0). Prerequisites: graduate social science statistics course. Advanced statistical procedures, including multiple regression analysis, analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, and multivariate analysis of variance.

8321: Multivariate Statistics II
Cr.3.(3-0). Prerequisite: SOCW 8320. Advanced statistical procedures, including discriminant analysis, loglinear, logistic regression, meta analysis, and path analysis.

8322: Quantitative Research Methods
Cr.3.(3-0). Prerequisite: SOCW 8320 or consent of instructor. Quantitative research methodologies and designs, including experimental, quasi-experimental, and single-systems designs.

8323: Qualitative Research Methods
Cr.3.(3-0). Prerequisite: SOCW 8320 or consent of instructor. Qualitative research methods, including theories, research designs, data collection methods, and analysis approaches. Emphasizes grounded theory, ethnography, participant-observation, field research, and document and content analysis.

8330: Philosophy of Science
Cr.3.(3-0). Prerequisite: doctoral standing. Epistemology for social work practice and education, and the nature, uses, and limitations of research. Distinctions between philosophy of science and a profession's philosophy and particular value orientation are explored.

8331: Social Justice Theories and Research in Social Work
Cr.3.(3-0). Prerequisite: doctoral standing. Social change and social work scholarship. Contextualizes social work practice toward understanding social problems, processes, and solutions with emphasis on class, race, gender, and culture. Examines alternatives to traditional research.

8332: Theories of Social Work Practice
Cr.3.(3-0). Prerequisite: doctoral standing. The historical and cultural context in which major theories of social work practice emerged, the philosophical and scientific tenets of those theories, and their current status in practice. Critically examines practice theories for their relevance to current and future social work practice.

8333: Social Science Theories
Cr.3.(3-0). Prerequisite: doctoral standing. Social science theories and the conceptual frameworks that undergird contemporary social work literature, or which hold strong potential for enhancing social work practice theory or social policy formulations that contribute to institutional change and social justice.

8334: Social Policy Analysis
Cr.3.(3.0). Prerequisite: doctoral standing. Examines the present state of knowledge-with particular reference to issues and problems-in social welfare policy. Designed to aid students to develop a research focus and to formulate research questions in social welfare policy. Also stressed are the skills to formulate policy hypotheses and disseminate the results of an empirical policy study.

8337: Teaching in the Social Work Curriculum
Cr.3.(3-0). Prerequisite: doctoral standing in social work. Prepares students for teaching in social work programs; explores issues in higher education, and pedagogy, provides classroom teaching experience.

8395: Pre-Dissertation Research
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisites: doctoral standing in social work and the completion of required and elective coursework. Focus on pre-dissertation research including refining research skills, defining an appropriate dissertation topic, and developing a successful dissertation proposal. Students may repeat this course as they move toward an approved dissertation proposal.

8397: Selected Topics in Social Work
Cr.3.(3-0). Prerequisites: doctoral standing. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

8399:8699:8999: Dissertation
Cr.3-9 per semester.