19 courses with the subject SOW, 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.
SOW 210Introduction To Social Work3
This course is designed to introduce students to the profession of Social Work as an academic area and an exciting, challenging, helping profession. This course includes a focus on values and ethics.
SOW 210 This course builds on the introduction of America’s social welfare policy presented in the Introduction to Social Work course. It is designed to expand the student’s knowledge of social welfare policy in this country. Accordingly, it focuses on the philosophies and history of social welfare and the different service delivery organizations, public and voluntary existing in this society.
SOW 301Human Behavior and The Social Environment I3
SOW 210 This is the first of two courses in the HBSE sequence. The course will address the reciprocal relationships between human behavior and social environments. It includes theories and knowledge of biological, sociological, cultural, psychological, and spiritual development from conception to young adulthood. The content includes empirically based theories and knowledge that focus on the interactions between and among individuals, groups, societies, and economic systems from birth through young adulthood.
SOW 302Human Behavior and The Social Environment II3
SOW 210 and SOW 301 This is the second of the HBSE courses. It includes theories and knowledge of biological, sociological, cultural, psychological, and spiritual development from middle adulthood through death. This includes focusing on the range of social systems in which people live (individual, family, group, organizational, and community) and the ways in which social systems promote and deter people in achieving and maintaining health and well-being.
SOW 210 The purpose of this course is to offer content concerning social work practice with an ever increasingly diverse society. The course includes knowledge and skills at the beginning competency level to recognize and be sensitive to issues and strengths of oppressed and marginalized populations. Students will develop skills to work effectively and respectfully with these populations.
SOW 305Communication and Writing for Social Workers3
SOW 210 This course introduces the student to professional communication skills needed for effective social work practice. Communication skills include writing and oral skills. This course offers students opportunities to practice documentation skills, assessments, progress
SOW 342Introduction to Social Work Research Methods3
SOW 210 This course is designed to provide social work students with a basic understanding of social research and the connection between research, theory, and practice. The course introduces the research process, including research concepts, problem formation, research design, sampling, instrument construction, data collection and qualitative/quantitative analysis, and report writing.
SOW 210 This introductory course is designed to provide students with a foundation for generalist social work practice. The emphasis on this first of four practice courses is to equip students with foundation theory and skills for generalist practice including self-assessment, social work roles, social agency operations and understanding client needs.
SOW 373Social Work Practice with Individuals and Families3
SOW 210 and SOW 371 This course is designed to teach students the Generalist Intervention Model. The main course content is to prepare baccalaureate students to work with individuals and families in a variety of settings.
SOW 210 , SOW 301 , SOW 302 , SOW 371 , and SOW 373 This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge base and practice skills necessary for working with groups at the beginning generalist professional level. The course includes interventions designed to work with diverse populations.
SOW 377Social Work Practice with Organizations and Communities3
SOW 210 , SOW 235 , SOW 371 , SOW 373 and SOW 375 This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge and practice skills for generalist practice with organizations and communities. The course will provide specific skills useful in macro level practice for generalist social workers regardless of their practice setting. The course will include the influences of political, social, and economic forces that affect organizational and agency operations and community functioning.
SOW 210 , SOW 301 , SOW 302 , and SOW 371 This course provides an overview of child welfare services from a historical, theoretical and practice perspective. Various forms of child maltreatment and methods of intervention will be examined. The child welfare system will be reviewed and specific information on North Carolina policies and procedures will be provided. Foster care and adoption will be studied as alternatives when children must be removed from their own families either temporarily or permanently.
SOW 465Advanced Social Work Research Methods3
This course is designed to provide social work students with an advanced understanding of social research and the connection between research, theory, and practice. This course is one of the two research courses for undergraduate social work majors. Students are required to complete SOW 342 - Introduction to Social Work Research Methods as a prerequisite for the course. The course enhances students’ understanding of Evidence Based Practice, Program Evaluations, Single-Case Evaluation, Qualitative Inquiry, Measurement, and Analysis while learning the importance of accessing the library, electronic resources and professional journals.
SOW 301 , SOW 302 , SOW 303 , SOW 371 , and SOW 373 This is the first course of the two-semester field practice sequence in the student’s senior year. Students are placed in a field agency setting for a minimum of 225 clock hours each semester. The purpose of the course is to provide students with hands-on experience in working with client systems and integration and application of knowledge and skills under the supervision of a professionally trained and experienced social worker. (Requires $75 field fee)
SOW 472 The seminar is a companion course to SOW 472 , Field Practice. The purpose of the seminar is to help guide the student through the field placement, enhance their practical hands-on learning experiences and to provide a forum for mutual support for all students in field placement
SOW 472 , and SOW 473 This is the second course of the two-semester field practice sequence in the student’s senior year. Students will continue their placement in their field agency setting for a minimum of 225 clock hours. The purpose of the course is to provide students with hands-on experience in working with a client system and integration and application of knowledge and skills under the supervision of a professionally trained and experienced social worker.
SOW 474 The seminar is a companion course to SOW 474 , Field Practice. The purpose of the seminar is to help guide the student through the field placement, enhance their practical hands-on learning experiences and to provide a forum for mutual support for all students in field placement during their second semester of field placement.
SOW 210 , SOW 302 , SOW 303 , and SOW 373 The course examines the problem and related aspects of substance abuse, including spiritual and pharmacological aspects, using a bio-psychosocial framework. Also examined are theoretical, medical and spiritual explanations of the problem and societal responses to the problem. It introduces basic methods of substance abuse assessment, intervention, treatment, and recovery. (Social Science Majors may take this course by joint approval of their advisor and the course instructor).
