Social Work
SW 2000 - Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
3 credit hours
Advances knowledge and skills embedded in the values of social, economic, and environmental justice for all people across systems of all sizes that are essential to generalist social work practice and work in other professions.
SW 2010 - Professional Writing for Social Work Practice
3 credit hours
Writing case notes for Social Work. Focuses on the use of APA formatting to assist students in preparing effective documentation for practice and acceptable manuscripts for publication.
SW 2570 - Introduction to Social Work
3 credit hours
The methods, history, philosophy, and present organization of the social work profession.
SW 2630 - Interviewing Skills for Social Work Practice
3 credit hours
An introduction to principles and processes of social work practice including interviewing and developing relationships.
SW 2750 - Introduction to Substance Abuse
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: SW 2570 recommended but not required. Provides an overview of issues related to substance abuse. Addresses the role of social workers and other helping professionals, models of addiction, treatment and recovery. Introduces evidence-based intervention strategies and the effects of addiction on family systems and communities.
SW 3000 - Social Policy
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: SW 2570. Emphasis on recurring themes in social welfare policy development processes, historical turning points; societal ethics; causal relationship--social problems, social change, and social welfare policy analytical frameworks for assessing social welfare policy and programs.
SW 3010 - Technology in Social Work
3 credit hours
Focuses on the use of technology in social work, including legal and ethical issues and the use of technology in social services (e.g., direct services, electronic data management, and HIPAA) and activism (e.g., advocacy, disparity, and adaptation of intervention).
SW 3020 - Social Work and Health
3 credit hours
Provides health-related information including policy, program description, and diverse individual perspectives on health; students will develop an understanding of the role of social work in health education, health literacy, the development of health-related policy, and the impact of health on daily living among clients served in social work settings.
SW 3030 - Social Work with At Risk Youth
3 credit hours
Examines social work practice with the adolescent population who is at risk for involvement in the juvenile justice system or criminal justice system.
SW 3040 - Financial Capability
3 credit hours
Introduces the field of financial capability and asset building. Influences of social inequality and marginalization, diverse contexts, the lifespan, policy and practice, and emerging trends included.
SW 3050 - Women and Poverty
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: WGST 2100 or SW 2570. Predominant theories, policies, and programs dealing with poverty among women. Explores the effects of poverty on women in addition to a general knowledge of poverty; ageism, sexism, and racism in relation to poverty; historical treatment of women and views of poverty.
SW 3110 - Research Methods for Social Work Practice
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: SW 2570. Research processes; includes information about values for research, knowledge of methods, and opportunities for skill development.
SW 3120 - Data Analysis for Social Work Practice
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: SW 3110. Data analysis and interpretation. Opportunities for skill development in the use of statistical procedures and knowledge of the meaning of results of such procedures. Instruction in computer use for data entry and data analysis.
SW 3160 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment I: Conception to Adolescence
3 credit hours
Major theories of human development across the life span and life course. Ecological relationship of diverse individuals and families with other systems in the social environment described with focus on biological, psychological, and social context and content.
SW 3161 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment II: Young Adulthood to Death/Dying
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: SW 3160. Builds on concepts learned in SW 3160. Presents theories on and about the development, structure, and function of small groups, organizations, and communities and how they interrelate eco-systemically with individuals and families. Must be admitted to Social Work program.
SW 3170 - Family Caregiving Across the Life Span
3 credit hours
Caregivers--gender roles, cost of caregiving, managing stress, respite care, finding recourses, financial and legal matters, establishing support groups, differential caregiving tips for various illnesses and disabilities from infancy to old age, emerging trends, and long distance caregiving.
SW 3200 - Cultural Diversity: Competency for Practice
3 credit hours
(Same as AAS 3200 and AST 3200.) Examines culturally appropriate practice issues that are essential considerations for effective service delivery, including African American families and ethnic subcultures predominant in the U.S.
SW 4010 - Juvenile Justice
3 credit hours
Overview of the juvenile justice system and the tools to evaluate and analyze juvenile justice policies and programs.
SW 4020 - Social Work with Older Adults
3 credit hours
Provides a strengths-based, multigenerational family, and community focused framework that values diversity, resiliency, empowerment, social justice, and social change among older adults.
SW 4030 - Child Welfare Services I
3 credit hours
The contemporary child welfare system and services designed to strengthen families. Historical trends, policy issues, and child advocacy.
SW 4031 - Child Welfare Services II
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: SW 4030. The contemporary child welfare system and services; designed to strengthen families, historical trends, the changing family, challenges, policy and practice implications, and culturally responsive skills and solutions for permanency.
SW 4070 - Social Work with the Military and Veterans
3 credit hours
Prerequisite: SW 2570, PSY 1410, or SOC 1010. Development and present characteristics of social work services for military personnel, their families, and veterans; online discussions, papers, quizzes, optional assignments, and a final exam.
SW 4100 - International Social Work
3 credit hours
International dimensions of social work. Explores the impact of globalization on social work problems. Includes status of women, aging populations, family breakdown, drug addiction, child abuse and neglect, poverty, and emerging problems such as civil strife, ethnic cleansing, resettlement, and AIDS.
SW 4150 - Topics in Social Work
3 credit hours
Selected topics important in current social work practice but too specialized to be taught as regularly scheduled courses.
SW 4200 - Creativity and Personal Growth
3 credit hours
Introduces the creative process and the use of that process in the development of self-awareness and empathetic relationships with others.
SW 4250 - School Social Work
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: SW 2570 and SW 2630. Introduces social work students to practice in school settings. Examines various roles of social workers in school systems and the specifics of practicing with students from 3-21 years of age in individual, group, and organizational level interventions.
SW 4430 - Social Work with the Terminally Ill
3 credit hours
Factors and principles involved with the terminally ill which should stimulate students to learn and think about what he/she values and anticipates experiencing in the area of medical social work.
SW 4440 - Social Work with the Disabled Individual
3 credit hours
The effects of disability on the individual, the family, and society. An examination of a variety of intervention strategies from a social work perspective.
SW 4580 - Social Work: Practice I
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: SW 2570, SW 2630, SW 3000, and SW 3160. Theories and related techniques for beginning-level social work. (Must be admitted to Social Work program.)
SW 4581 - Social Work Practice II
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: SW 2570, SW 2630, and SW 4580. Group process and group techniques as they apply to social work practice, including both treatment and task groups. (Must be admitted to Social Work program.)
SW 4582 - Social Work Practice III
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: SW 3110, SW 3120, SW 4580, and senior standing; must be admitted to the Social Work program. Theories and related techniques for advanced-level social work practice.
SW 4590 - Field Instruction I
6 credit hours
Prerequisites: SW 2570, SW 2630, SW 3000, SW 3110, SW 3160, SW 3161, SW 3200; SW 4580; completion of all General Education requirements; and senior standing. Student is assigned to a social agency under the joint supervision of agency and instructor with concurrent seminar. Application must be made the preceding semester. (Must be admitted to Social Work program.)
SW 4640 - Health: Organizations, Policy, and Ethics
3 credit hours
(Same as SOC 4640.) A resource allocation assessment of U.S. health care systems. Applied ethics topics (i.e., justice, virtue, and informed consent) included.
SW 4650 - Social Work: Practice II
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: SW 3110, SW 3120, SW 4580, and senior standing. Theories and related techniques for advanced-level social work practice. (Must be admitted to Social Work program.)
SW 4680 - Field Instruction II
9 credit hours
Prerequisites: SW 4580, SW 4590, senior standing, and all other major requirements. Second field placement for social work majors. Application must be made the preceding semester. (Must be admitted to Social Work program.) Pass/Fail.
SW 4681 - Field Instruction: Block Placement
12 credit hours
Prerequisites: SW 3110, SW 3160, SW 3161, SW 3200, SW 4580, SW 4581, SW 4582; senior standing; must be admitted to the Social Work program. Provides student instruction through experience in a social service agency under the joint supervision of an agency field instructor and a faculty field liaison with a concurrent seminar.
SW 4690 - Integrative Seminar in Social Work
3 credit hours
Prerequisites: SW 3110, SW 3160, SW 3161, SW 3200, SW 4580, SW 4581, SW 4582; senior standing; must be admitted to the Social Work program. An opportunity for the student, with instructor and peers, to explore the knowledge, values, and skills gained from academic and field experiences and to synthesize and integrate theory and practice.
SW 4720 - Crisis Intervention
3 credit hours
The basis of crisis theory applied to intervention services for suicide, rape, natural disasters, and other crises.
SW 4800 - Special Projects
1 to 6 credit hours
Field experiences or reading courses through which special interests or needs of the student may be pursued under individual supervision. Arrangements must be made with an instructor prior to registration.
