Social Work (S Wrk)
Note: Admission to the M.S.W. program is prerequisite to all graduate courses.
Exceptions may be authorized by the department chair.
200. Social Welfare Policy I (3)
Analysis of major social welfare policies; includes consideration of legislative
history, social, political, and economic factors, court decisions, and administrative
implementation. Comparison of various policy analysis frameworks; the legislative
process and involvement of social workers therein.
203. Social Welfare Policy II (3)
Prerequisite: S Wrk 200. Analysis of social agency policy. Board and administrative
policy; internal and external influences on development; role of staff,
particularly direct-service practitioners, in policy development and revision;
impact of policy decisions on service delivery system.
210. Seminar in Behavioral and Environmental Concepts (3)
Concepts of health and disease in a bio-psycho-social and environmental
context for social work practice with small systems; emphasis on theories
of deviance and pathology.
211. Seminar in Social and Cultural Factors in Social Work (3)
Significance for social work practice of specific elements of American Indian,
Asian American, Black and Chicano ethnic groups, tradition, values and change
in diverse individual, family and community systems.
212. Seminar in Small Group Behavior (3)
Analysis of structural properties, interactional dynamics and developmental
processes of small groups in social institutions and communities.
223. Seminar in Clinical Social Work Practice (4)
Historical development of dominant theories of social work practice. Primary
focus on short-term and crisis intervention with individuals
226. Seminar in CSW Group Therapy (3)
Prerequisite: S Wrk 224 or permission of instructor. Analysis of the theories,
practice, principles and techniques of clinical social work practice with
small groups.
227. Seminar in CSW Marriage and Family Therapy (3)
Prerequisite: S Wrk 224 or permission of instructor. Analysis of theories,
practice, principles and techniques of clinical social work practice with
couples and families.
228. Seminar in Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice (3)
Prerequisite: S Wrk 223. Advanced study of theories of psychotherapy
and social work practice for intensive treatment.
229. Seminar in CSW Alternate Methods (3)
Prerequisite: S Wrk 220 or by permission of instructor. Analysis of alternate
methods affecting clinical social work practice.
233. Social Planning and Administration I (4)
Historical context of social welfare administration; administrative theories
and their relevance to social welfare organizations; managerial functions
performed in social welfare agencies. Instruction balanced between theory
and experiential exercises.
234. Social Planning and Administration II (3)
Prerequisite: S Wrk 233. Organizational analysis in social welfare.
Analysis of social service organizations, theories of organization, and
their application to human service agencies as differentiated from other
organizations; emphasis upon organizational change.
235. Social Planning and Administration III (3)
Prerequisite: S Wrk 233. Social welfare planning. Planning for the agency
program and the community, based on needs assessment; sectoral, comprehensive,
and systems approaches to social planning; application of specific techniques
of planning to community and organizational settings; selected case studies
and analysis of plans in areas such as aging, health, alcoholism, and criminal
justice.
236. Social Planning and Administration IV (3)
Interpersonal elements in social welfare administration. Knowledge and
skills in human relations essential to social welfare administration; application
to personnel management, interpersonal, and public relations, involvement
of citizen participation in the agency program.
250. Field Instructed Practice (2-8; max total 8)
Concurrent enrollment in S Wrk 224 or 244 required. Advanced field-instructed
practice experiences in work with individuals, groups, families, formal
organizations, and communities; applying the theories and concepts of social
work practice. Students are required to carry liability insurance during
internships.
251. Field Instructed Practice (2-8; max total 8)
Prerequisite: S Wrk 250. Continued advanced, field-instructed practice experiences
in work with individuals, groups and families, formal organizations, and
communities; applying the theories and concepts of social work practice.
Students are required to carry liability insurance during internships.
271T. Seminar in Social Work Specializations (1-3; max total 8)
In-depth study of specific treatment modalities or methods, e.g., community
or ganization, community development, crisis intervention, personality adjustment.
272T. Seminar in Areas of Social Work (1-3; max total 8)
Theories and developments in the areas of mental health, public health,
administration of justice, child welfare, family welfare, income maintenance,
schools, international social work, social gerontology, social rehabilitation.
290. Independent Study (1-3; max see reference)
See Academic Placement -- Independent Study.
292. Evaluative Research (3)
A course designed to expose students to a variety of design strategies applicable
to assessing the outcome of social services intervention. Review and critique
of existing evaluative literature as well as the development of an evaluation
plan flora specific social service will form the basis of the course.
293. Research Project Design (3)
A course designed to prepare students to develop potentially fundable grant
proposals in the social services and to expose them to a variety of potential
funding services and approach strategies. Preparation and evaluation o1
grant proposals constitute the basis of this course.
297. Directed Social Work Research (2-4; max total 4)
Prerequisite: S Wrk 292. Group or individual research having direct applicability
to social work practice and/or issues. Individual and/or group conferences
with research committee. Submission of an acceptable research proposal and
completed document required.
299. Thesis (3-6; max total 6)
Prerequisite: S Wrk 291. See Criteria for Thesis and Project. Preparation,
completion, and submission of an acceptable thesis for the master's degree.
(See Course Numbering System.)
Social Work (S Wrk)
301. Seminar in Social Work Topics (1-3)