6 courses with the subject SWH, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
This 3-credit course focuses on the context of macro social work, defined as policy practice, community practice, and organizational administration and management. This course will familiarize students with each of these practice environments by grounding them in the relevant historical and contemporary background of so
In this course, students will learn and practice basic tenets of social welfare policy analysis from a social work lens. Policy analysis is an important skillset for all social workers and familiarity of policy practice is encouraged and heeded by our professional code of ethics. This course introduces students to a process of policy analysis guided by evidence and social justice. Students will be empowered to read, discuss, and critique social welfare po In the first half of the course, students will discuss social welfare policy as a subset of public policy, distinguish social welfare policy from social welfare programs, examine how social, cultural, economic, and environmental forces shape policy development, implementation, and funding, and discern evidence from opinion when assessing social welfare policies. Students will explore the role of political ideology from needs-, economic-, and caretaking-pe In the second half of the course, students will apply a value-critical approach to policy analysis that includes assessing policies goals, objectives, benefits, services, eligibility rules, implementation, administration, evaluation, and financing. Students will discuss and examine the function of social welfare policy as an arbitrator for civil and human rights. Students will also assess the significance of the unique relationship between sovereign indig
This 3-credit course emphasizes an ecological approach to human development and behavior in micro, meso, and macro level social systems of the individual, families and groups, organizations and communities, and larger society that is cognizant of historical and cultural contexts. The first half of this course provides students with a foundation of classic theoretical frameworks in which to
In this one semester 3-credit course students will learn to assess psychiatric diagnoses described in the DSM-5-TR, considering those diagnoses and compounding psychosocial challenges from multi
Social workers across all sectors of practice engage with individuals, groups, families, organizations, and communities that are significantly affected by substance use and substance use disorders. In this 3-credit course, students will become familiar with the histories and theories that shape understanding of substance use. Set within a social justice framework, students will critically analyze the intersectio
This 3-credit course is designed to educate students about the basic principles of program evaluation and prepare them with the knowledge and skills they need to evaluate social work services, programs, and agencies. Using case examples and their agency settings as laboratories, students wil
Source: Simmons University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
