Social Work Course Descriptions for Lima Campus
- SW 230 Individual Needs and Societal Responses U
5
- Introductory understanding of human needs,
social values,
ideologies, and institutional structures which have shaped the
evaluation of social welfare programs in America.
Not open to students with credit for 220. BER/GEC/LAR course.
- SW 300 Minority Perspectives: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender U 5
- Examination of the structure of human societies, cultures,
and
institutions, and the allocation of resources from the vantage point of
oppressed minority populations.
Prereq: 10 cr hrs of course work in polit sci, psych, or sociol. Not
open to students with credit for 600. GEC course.
- SW 690 Ethical Issues in Social Work Practice U G 4
- Historical, philosophical and legal foundations giving rise
to
ethical principles which underlie social work practice.
Prereq: Sr Standing. Satisfies 4 credits for the LSW License Renewal.
- SW 691 Case Management and Social Work Practice U G 4
- Social work competencies in the provision of services to address client problems and populations. Emphasis on client/family strengths and social networks.
- SW 695 Integrative Seminars U G 3
- Examines the various fields of social work practice;
focuses
on developing the ability to set practice goals, decide methods of
intervention, implement, and evaluate consequences.
SW 695.09 Alcoholism U G 3
SW 695.12 Child and Family Services U G 3
SW 695.14 Aging
- SW 695.17 AIDS I: Facts and Issues U G 3
- Certificate upon completion of 695.17, 695.18, 695.19
- SW 695.18 AIDS II: Psychosocial Aspects U G 3
- Prereq: 695.17. Certificate upon completion of 695.17,
695.18,
695.19
- SW 695.19 AIDS III: Community Response U G 3
- Prereq: 695.18. Certificate upon completion of 695.17,
695.18,
695.19
- SW 710 Women’s Issues in Social Work P G 3
- Examination of relevant issues in the professional practice
of
social work.
711 Race and Ethnicity in Social Work Practice P G 3
An analytical approach to problems, needs, and intervention for
effective social work practice with the oppressed target populations of
Appalacians and Blacks.
Prereq: Grad Standing
- SW 720 Social Welfare Policies and Programs I P G 3
- Historical and comparative analysis of social welfare
systems;
their relationship to change in the basic social institutions: family,
church, government, and economic institutions.
Prereq: Soc work grad standing or permission of instructor.
- SW 721 Social Welfare Policies and Programs II P G 3
- The development and application of a conceptual model for
social welfare policy and program analysis.
Prereq: 720
- SW 730 Seminars in Social Functioning P G 3
- Critical examination of personality, interactional, small
group, organizational and community concepts and approaches used in
social work analysis of social dysfunction.
Prereq: Soc work grad standing
.01 – Institutional and Organizational Behavior
.02 – Psychopathology and Deviance
- SW 733 Human Behavior and the Social Environment I P G 3
- Social work theories and concepts related to individuals
and
families as they develop over the life span; systems model provides a
unifying framework.
Prereq: Soc work grad standing or permission of instructor.
- SW 734 Human Behavior and the Social Environment II P G 3
- Continues applying the social work systems and life span
frameworks to extra-familial environments (i.e. groups, communities and
cultures) that affect individual development and social functioning.
Prereq: 733
- SW 744 Social Work Practice Lab P G 2
- Didactic and experiential learning of generalist practice
skills. Open only to social work majors only of grad standing. This
course is graded S/U.
- SW 745 Practice and Profession I P G 3
- Assessment, planning and contracting with various levels of
client systems within the context of the profession’s
commitment to an ecosystem perspective.
Prereq: 744
- SW 746 Practice and Profession II P G 3
- Intervention, evaluation and termination with various sized
client systems within the context of the professions commitment to an
ecosystem perspective.
- SW 750 Social Welfare Policies and Programs P G 3
- Unique and specific aspects of social welfare policies and
programs in selected fields of Social Work which augment Clinical and
Social Planning/Administration concentrations.
Prereq: 721. Students may not register for more than a total of 9 cr
hrs under this number; subdivisions not repeatable.
- SW 750.01 Child and Family Services
- Understanding and application of the analytic model of
social
welfare policies and programs with special emphasis on the
disadvantaged as applied to child and family social work practice.
- SW 750.04 Mental Health
- Utilizing a social policy analytic framework; introduces
social welfare
policy issues and program organization.
- SW 770 Research Methods in Social Work P G 3
- basic methodology the role
research in social prereq
soc work grad standing or
permission of instructor
- SW 771
Data Analysis Designs P G 3
- Interpretation of social work data; quantitative
techniques;
designs of data analysis.
- Prereq: Soc Work grad standing or permission of instructor.
- SW 772 Evaluation of Social Work Practice P G 3
- Utilization and selection of methodological techniques and
applications for evaluating practice design and program effectiveness.
Prereq: 770 and 771. Not open to students with credit for 875.01 or
875.03
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