SOC-WK 5510      Foundation Field Practicum I
Students spend 16-hours weekly in a generalist field practicum setting under MSW supervision Participation in a 12-hour integrated field seminar on campus led by faculty is required. Must take one human behavior course (SOC-WK 5530 or SOC-WK 5531) prior to entering or concurrently with field placement. Must take SOC-WK 5532 concurrently.
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5511      Foundation Field Practicum II
Students continue the field practicum experience from SOC-WK 5510 and participation in the integrated seminar on campus. Focus on generalist knowledge, values, and skills. Prerequisite: Completion of SOC-WK 5510 and SOC-WK 5532. Must take SOC-WK 5533 concurrently.
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5512      Advanced Field Practicum I
Students are placed in a field setting in their chosen field-of-practice concentration approximately 16 hours per week under the supervision of an MSW field instructor. SOC-WK 5540 must be taken concurrently. One concentration seminar must be taken prior to or concurrently with entering this field placement.
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5513      Advanced Field Practicum II
Students complete a final semester in their field-of-practice concentration agency setting approximately 16 hours weekly under MSW supervision. SOC-WK 5541 must be taken concurrently.
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5530      Human Behavior: Individuals In The Social Environment
This theory course focuses on the interactional context of human behavior essential to all social work practice. A variety of perspectives are considered in the understanding of the individual; developmental, ecosystemic, biopsychosocial, traditional, and alternative. Diversity and resiliency are the are key course concepts.
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5531      Human Behavior: Families, Groups, Organizations, And Communities
This theory course applies social work's ecosystemic framework to the understanding of human behavior in families, groups, organizations, and communities. Knowledge and applied theories and paradigms are examined that honor social justice, human diversity, strenghts/assets, and community-building to enhance effective social work practice. Prerequisite: SOC-WK 5530
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5532      Foundations Of Social Work Practice I
This course examines the fundamental knowledge, values, and skills of generalist social work practice with a focus on person-in-environment. Course topics include values and ethics, collaborative approaches to helping,stages of the helping process, and beginning practice skills with at-risk populations. Concurrent enrollment in SOC-WK 5510 is required.
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5533      Foundations Of Social Work Practice II
This second generalist social work practice course examines effective helping approaches with diverse families, small groups, and communities of identify and/or place. The course also introduces values and working styles for professional practice in organizations. Pre-requisite: SOC-WK 5532 and SOC-WK 5510. Concurrent enrollment in SOC-WK 5511 is required.
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5534      Social Welfare Programs And Policies
This course examines social policies that direct current social service trends at local, state, and federal levels. Students learn a model of analysis that examines the context in which policy decisions are made and the effects that social service programs and policies have on people's lives.
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5535      Social Welfare Policy Practice
This course prepares students with a social justice/empowerment orientation and the knowledge, skills and values needed to become an effective policy advocate, particularly with people who experience the effects of poverty, discrimination, exclusion, and oppression. Pre-requisite: SOC-WK 5534
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5536      Social Work Research Methods
This course introduces students to the fundamental knowledge and skills of social work research such as practice evaluation, program planning, and other facets of professional social work practice. Emphasis on application of social research methods in actual practice situations will be used to assist students in skill development.
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5537      Quantitative Social Work Research Methods
This course is designed to prepare graduate level students to develop a comprehensive understandig of statistical method application to social work research. Students will gain a basic understanding of the research and statistical procedure that are needed for clinicians/researcher to operate within the field today. Students will become proficient in reading analyzing and assessing the results of social work publications. Prerequisite: SOC-WK 5536 Social Work Research Method
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5538      Advanced Standing Seminar: Contemp Trends In Social Work Practice
This required seminar is designed for BSW's entering the Advanced Standing Program and serves to update and integrate social work practice approaches with contemporary perspectives of human behavior in the social environment. Restriction: Restricted to Advanced Standing Students.
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5539      Adv Standing Sem: Emerging Iss In Soc Welfare Policy And Research
This required seminar in the Advanced Standing Program examines emerging policy issues and research developments in the field. Students prepare to choose a field-of-practice concentration and to enter the Advanced-level year of study. Restriction: Restricted to Advanced Standing Students.
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5540      Advanced Social Work Practice I
This course prepares students with an advanced generalist social work perspective and to evaluate and integrate theory, values, and skills for assessment and direct practice with complex case situations in a rapidly changing service environment. Must Be taken concurrently with SOC-WK 5512. Prerequisite: Completion of foundation year.
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5541      Advanced Social Work Practice II
This course extends the advanced generalist model of social work practice to working with challenging families and small groups. The course introduces leadership, organizational, and management competencies for professional practice in social service agencies and skills for coalition-building and collaboration in communities. Must be taken concurrently with SOC-WK 5513. Prerequisite: Completion of foundation year.
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5542      Social Services With Older Adults
This course provides an overview of social service practice with older adults. Students examine population demographics, identify normal and abnormal aspects of aging, and examine methods, paradigms, and approaches to effective advanced generalist practice in treatment and community settings. Prerequisite: Completion of foundation year.
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5544      Families, Communities and Child Welfare
This course examines child centered, family centered and neighborhood based approaches to child welfare. Prerequisites: Completion of Social Work Foundation Sequence
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5546      Mental Health and Substance Abuse in Social Work Practice
This course examines current practice approaches and policy/research issues in mental health and in the dually diagnosed. Students focus on service delivery systems of care with a variety of adult populations from an empowerment perspective. Prerequisite: Completion of foundation year.
Credits: 3 hours
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SOC-WK 5547      Grief and Loss in Social Work Practice
This course provides a comprehensive study of grief and loss from a professional social work perspective that includes current theories, evidence-based frameworks, and intervention strategies from a strengths-based perspective. The course will address many forms of special losses, such as suicide, homicide, HIV/AIDS, war-related grief, bankruptcy, divorce and other life transitional events that may or may not involve death and dying. Prerequisites: Completion of all Foundation-level courses.
Credits: 3 hours
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