29 courses with the subject MSW, 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.
MSW 500Intro Social Policy/Soc Work Profes3
This course will cover the history and development of the social work profession and policy including an understanding of where social work practice is located relative to other service provider professions, organizations, and the credentialing process. A particular focus in the course will be placed upon the foundations of knowledge and various fields of social work practice both at the individual, family, group, organization and societal/macro level. Areas of social work specialization will be covered with particular attention given to diverse populations and the social work field itself through the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This course examines the ethical and legal practice of social work as it relates to the varied professional roles, specializations, and organizations, in which social workers conduct their practice. The course will address social workers’ professional identity formation, advocacy duties, self-care, and ethical decision making. The course will cover the NASW Code of Ethics, ethical decision making models and principles, and social work jurisprudence.
The course provides an introduction to strengths-based generalist practice for working with individuals, families and groups using a collaborative approach. The course is designed to allow students the opportunity to demonstrate generalist level competencies. Grounded in a person and environment construct, an appreciation of oppressive systems, and respect for human diversity, the course provides students with generalist knowledge, skills and values necessary for generalist social work practice. Particular attention will be given to generalist social work practice as they relate to diverse populations through the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This course provides the core theoretical perspectives of human behavior in organizations and communities and other societal systems. Traditional theories, alternative paradigms, and models of behavior in these various sized systems will be explored and related to one another to analyze the functioning of individuals within collectives. The tasks and developmental operations within organizations and community systems will be examined with respect to how they maintain themselves, as well as how the behavior of individuals and groups within them influence one another. Particular attention will be given to social work practice as it relates to diverse populations through the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This course utilizes the person-in-environment, biopsychosocial lens to examine theories, themes, and issues concerning human behavior and interaction as individuals grow, change, and develop across their lifespan. Assumptions and theories about human behavior and diversity are critically reviewed, with a focus on values and ethical issues related to human development, anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice.
This course will cover the current DSM psychiatric system, and specifically the characteristics, etiology, and contributing factors of specific diagnoses. Students will learn how to arrive at a differential diagnosis. The course will address evidence-based interventions for these diagnoses. This course will also cover the specific areas of controversy surrounding particular diagnoses and the diagnostic system itself. Particular attention will be given to use of the DSM in an applied setting as it pertains to diverse populations. Particular attention will be given to an understanding of clinical assessment and diagnosis as they relate to anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion work.
This is the first of two courses within the Generalist field curriculum, which is designed to facilitate students’ mastery of the fundamentals of social work practice and the acquisition of the nine professional practice competencies required by the Council of Social Work Education (CSWE). In this skill-based course, students will develop competency in performing essential social work skills via simulations, role-plays, discussion, and peer activities. These skills will be applied to working with client systems, including: individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Students will obtain up to 50 hours of Generalist field experience that will count towards their 400 total hours Generalist Field Educatio
This is the second of two courses within the Generalist field curriculum, which is designed to facilitate students’ mastery of the fundamentals of social work practice and the acquisition of the nine professional practice competencies required by the CSWE. Building upon their work in MSW 550, students will participate in a minimum of 350 hours in an approved field education site that provides generalist level learning opportunities to successfully demonstrate Generalist level social work competence. Students will simultaneously engage in the asynchronous Field Seminar course, which serves as a forum for support to assist in the successful completion of the Generalist Field Education requirement.
In this course students will explore multicultural social work theory, research and treatment modalities for all levels of practice. Students will learn how to develop their knowledge, awareness and skills for working with diverse clientele. The course requires students to examine both their own and clients’ complex cultural identity with a particular focus on privilege and oppression and how these identities inform social work practice. Special topics examined in this course include, but are not limited to: race/racism, ethnicity/ethnocentrism, social class/classism, ability/ableism, biological sex/sexism, sexual orientation/homophobia, gender identity/transphobia, religion/anti-Semitism/Islamophobia, immigration/xenophobia, and nationality/fascism.
This course teaches the student to apply the theory and practice of group counseling as it is utilized in the mental health field. This applied course will focus on the facets of group counseling including: ethics, legalities, diversity, development, dynamics, process, methods, roles, and leadership styles and skills. Students will be required to co-lead a peer group in the classroom setting.
This introductory course will cover basic quantitative and qualitative research methods utilized by social workers, including: elements of experimental design; development of research questions; conducting a literature review; and working with data sets. Understanding the role of ethics within research is essential, including an assessment of the history of social work research through the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Discussion of research opportunities for social workers includes a focus on its application within organization and community settings. This course will utilize a series of discussions, exercises, and projects to provide students with experience using research to support practice, including means of evaluating individual, family, and group client systems.
Advanced standing students will begin their plan of study in the specialization year, taking this course the semester prior to their official start to review and solidify their competencies related to generalist social work practice. This course will revisit the major theories, skills, and interventions underpinning generalist practice to prepare advanced standing students for clinical social work education and practice. Particular attention will be given to foundations of social work practice through the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Advanced standing students will begin their plan of study in the specialization year, taking this course the semester prior to their official start to review and solidify their competencies related to generalist social work practice. This course will revisit the major theories, skills, and interventions underpinning generalist practice to prepare advanced standing students for clinical social work education and practice. Particular attention will be given to foundations of social work practice through the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This course serves as the foundational course in healing-centered clinical practice and goes beyond traditional approaches to the treatment of trauma, both individual and socio-political. Course content will cover the history of trauma treatment in social work, as well as current approaches that include cognitive, neurological, psychological, biochemical, developmental, and interpersonal aspects of trauma work. Consideration will be given to trauma-based diagnoses, how trauma prevails in specific populations, and the sociopolitical realities that traumatize some groups more than others. Particular attention will be given to an understanding of trauma work and related topics as they relate to diverse populations through the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This course serves as an advanced course in healing-centered clinical practice. The course covers advanced trauma care topics that build upon the knowledge gained and skills developed in the MSW 600 - Trauma-Informed Practice. The topics covered in this course will include vicarious traumatization of the service provider, treatment strategies for insidious and complex trauma and related dissociative disorders, how the brain responds to trauma, how socio-political oppression informs individuals’ trauma, and how the intergenerational transmission of trauma presents in clients’ trauma narratives and presenting symptomatology. Particular attention will be given to trauma work and related topics, as they related to diverse populations through the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This course explores the complexity of how people struggle with grief and bereavement. In particular, the course will cover the cultural, emotional, psychological, physical, and spiritual dimensions of grief and bereavement across the lifespan. Students will examine current models of grief theory and recovery treatment. Emphasis will be placed on therapeutic strategies for facilitating holistic grief work in clinical social work. Particular attention will be given to grief work and related topics as they relate to diverse populations through the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This course offers an overview of crisis intervention in all levels of social work practice. Major theoretical models of situational crises are examined and operationalized across a variety of service delivery systems. Students will develop the conceptual competency needed to engage in crisis intervention. Special emphasis is given to contemporary research in suicidology, disaster psychology, and crisis management for public schools and organizations. Topics of discussion include emergency situations such as natural disasters, terrorism, school violence, abuse, and crisis interventions with diverse populations. Particular attention will be given to crisis intervention and related topics as it relates to diverse populations through the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This course will explore advanced theories, models, and skills for clinical social work practice with individuals and families through a problem-solving model and ecological perspective. An analysis of the strengths and needs of diverse individuals and family cultures and structures will be explored. Through the view of individuals and families as partners in clinical assessment and intervention, this course will focus on recovery and building resiliency. The role of social workers in individual and family permanency planning, preservation, and support services across the lifespan will be covered. Particular attention will be given to clinical social work with individuals and families through the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This course will explore applications of macro social work practice in engaging, assessing, intervening with, and evaluating organizations and communities. Students will engage with the Grand Challenges for Social Work, analyzing the practice and policy implications of these social justice issues for organizations and communities, with focused attention on the role of these systems in addressing human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice. Students will critique the values, ideologies, and socio-political forces that promote or fail to promote anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion within the United States and specific types of organizations and communities therein. Additionally, students will explore the tenants of anti-oppressive management, supervision, and leadership, preparing them for potential opportunities in nonprofit and public service organizations.
This course provides the advanced theoretical perspectives of human behavior in groups, organizations and communities and other societal systems, with a focus on diversity. Traditional theories, alternative paradigms, and models of behavior in these various size systems will be explored and related to one another to analyze the functioning of individuals within collectives. The tasks and developmental operations within organizations and community systems will be examined with respect to how they maintain themselves and as the behavior of individuals and groups within them influence one another. Particular attention will be given to clinical social work with groups, organizations, and communities through the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This course will cover human sexuality across all developmental lifespan stages and will explore the biological, social, and psychological facets of human sexuality, including identity, expression, and dysfunction. A particular emphasis will be placed on how human sexuality varies across diverse positionalities, cultures, and communities. Attention will be given to clinical social work with individuals, groups, and organizations who represent oppressed sexual and gender identities through the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
This course utilizes the person-in-environment, biopsychosocial lens to examine theories, themes, and issues concerning human behavior and interaction as individuals grow, change, and develop across their lifespan. Assumptions and theories about human behavior and diversity are critically reviewed, with a focus on values and ethical issues related to human development, anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice. This course will use literature from 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals as a way to examine how sexuality, sex, gender and cultural constructs around sex affect both our understanding of gender and sex roles and how we develop implicit biases and feed into social constructs that can be harmful and inaccurate in clinical practice.
This course covers the history and current racial reality in the United States with a particular focus on racism and how it is perpetuated through politics, policy and social practices in America. The course will focus on critical race theory, racial equity models, reparations, and other topics chosen to educate social workers on how to intervene at the individual/family, community, and national level as an advocate for racial change and equality.
This course will cover the quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation methods utilized by social workers as they study and assess individual and family clinical practice, as well as community and agency programs. This course will utilize a small-group, hands-on research project to cover all phases of the research process and related inquiry, computer technology, and software.
This is the second of two courses within the specialized field curriculum, which is designed to facilitate students’ mastery of their selected area of specialized social work practice, including the acquisition of the nine core competencies required by the CSWE and the identified specialized competencies and related behaviors. Students will complete a minimum of 500 hours (total between MSW 665 and MSW 670) in an approved field education site that provides specialization-level learning opportunities to successfully demonstrate specialized-level social work competence. Students will simultaneously engage in the asynchronous Field Seminar III course, which serves as a forum for support to assist in the successful completion of the specialized field education requirement.
This is the second of two courses within the Specialist Field curriculum, which is designed to facilitate students’ mastery of their selected area of specialized social work practice, including the acquisition of the nine professional practice competencies required by the CSWE and the identified specialized practice behaviors. Building upon their work in MSW 665, students will complete a minimum of 500 hours (total between MSW 665 and MSW 670) in an approved field education site that provides specialist level learning opportunities to successfully demonstrate Specialist level social work competence. Students will simultaneously engage in the asynchronous Field Seminar III course, which serves as a forum for support to assist in the successful completion of the Specialist Field Education requirement.
This course utilizes a healing-centered macro social work lens to look more closely into the reality of those experiencing homelessness. In addition to exploring lived experience through case study, this course will also examine the theories often used when working with this population, the approaches best able to assist them, and how the macro lens can inform the micro work and how the micro experience can inform the macro perspective. This course will include a comprehensive review of historical efforts to address homelessness in the United States, current policy and practice initiatives, and the role of social workers, counselors, and other helping professionals within efforts to end the epidemic.
This course gives students the opportunity to deeply analyze and apply the knowledge, skills, theories, values, and ethics covered throughout the MSW program. This course requires students to focus topically either through the clinical or macro social work lens on human diversity, populations at risk, social and economic justice, human behavior and the social environment, social welfare policy, social work practice, social work research, and social work field education. Overall course focus and content builds upon all MSW curriculum and field internships utilizing a multi- level case study method and prepares students for professional practice at all system levels. Course focus will be offered through the lens of anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
The course provides an in- depth introduction to mental health telehealth practices, application, and ethics. In this course students will learn how to utilize telehealth as part of case management, counseling, therapeutic practice, and mental health environments. As the virtual world continues to develop and we begin to understand how various communities of people cannot access mental healthcare, mental health professionals must also adapt by learning to implement telehealth services.
