19 courses with the subject SOWK, 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.
SOWK 1000Introduction to Social Work3
This course explores the social, political, economic and historical dimensions of poverty and welfare services in the U.S. It complements other beginning courses in the social sciences by integrating this knowledge in a fashion which aids in the comprehension of welfare services while establishing a basis for movement toward higher-level courses.
This course provides an analysis of the historical, economic, and political relations of American religious, ethnic, and racial minorities in terms of social change and social structure. Sources of prejudice, discrimination, and oppression are examined as well as strategies to enhance social justice.
SOWK 1500Interviewing and Engaging: Skills for Professionals3
This class introduces students to effective interviewing skills to enhance oral communication with diverse client systems. Communication techniques that enhance effective client interactions are explored. Student competence is assessed through 20 hours of volunteer service, video recordings of oral communication skills, and in class activities.
SOWK 2500Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Life Course3
This course is designed to provide the perspectives, frameworks and theories necessary to understand human behavior in the social environment from a social work perspective. This course emphasizes ecological, systems, and life course perspectives to work effectively with diverse individuals and families across the lifespan.
This course provides undergraduate students with theoretical, applied knowledge of the critical dynamics which constitute effective case management within the field of rehabilitation and human services. This course focuses on an overview of philosophical perspectives and skills that provide a foundation for case managers. Students will gain practical experience through the application of these skills in direct case studies and the development of service plans. Students will explore best practices, future trends, challenges and visions in helping to meet the needs of diverse individuals who are considered at-risk. Offered fall, biannually.
This course examines the history and philosophy of social welfare policy and the basic process of policy development. Students develop effective professional writing skills by applying a conceptual framework to analyze and evaluate policies and their consequences on clients and communities.
SOWK 3000Human Behavior and the Social Environment II3
Human Behavior and the Social Environment II: Groups, Organizations and Communities is the second of a two-semester content area that is designed to provide perspectives, frameworks and theories necessary to understand human behavior in the social environment from a social work perspective. Approaches presented emphasize diversity and difference and the systemic impacts of oppression and discrimination at the group, organizational and community levels. The nature of systems, environmental transactions, and goodness-of-fit are stressed as the basis for understanding groups, organizations and communities from a social work perspective. A strengths-based, empowerment perspective is also used throughout the course to better understand reciprocal relationships at the group, organization and community levels.
This course focuses on the development of generalist practice skills, attitudes, and knowledge needed to work one-on-one with clients in a variety of social work practice settings. Students learn problem assessment, caseload management, and intervention strategies with special emphasis on the application of the NASW Code of Ethics.
This course is the second in a four-course practice methods sequence. It builds on the skills developed in Social Work Practice with Individuals, utilizing the ecological-systems approach to assessment and problem solving. The course covers the history of social work with families, the stages of family development, assessment of goals and objectives for families, and the principles and values for intervention and problem solving with families.
This course is the third in a four-course practice methods sequence. It builds on the skills developed in Social Work Practice with Individuals, utilizing the ecological-systems approach to assessment and problem solving. The course covers the history of social group work, the stages of group development, assessment of goals and objectives for groups, and the principles and values for intervention and problem solving with groups.
This course presents accurate information and open discussion regarding the ways in which sexuality contributes to overall health and is affected by it. This course emphasizes social work perspectives on policies, practices and self-care that promote sexual health and well-being among diverse clients.
In this class, students learn about the social change process, strategies, reactions to change, the impact of change on social policy and social welfare institutions.
This seminar focuses on selected topics of particular significance or current importance and interest to the social work profession. Students can receive credit for more than one seminar provided that each seminar focuses on a different topic. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors only. This course provides knowledge, skills and values needed to engage in family work as a generalist social worker. This course is a special interest course in the social work curriculum that provides opportunities to explore the role and function of the generalist social worker learning about trauma-informed practice. Trauma across the lifespan is essential knowledge for social workers because it is a risk factor increasing the overall quality of life for both those who experience or work with populations who have been a survivor of traumatic experiences. Given that most people from poorer countries migrate to more prosperous countries, individual who are from the lower socioeconomic income are increasingly vulnerable. As articulated by CSWE: ?A reciprocal interaction exists between social, political, and legal systems and the individuals and families traumatized. It affects the systems? capacity to respond effectively to the needs of affected individuals or families and the capacity of the systems themselves to adjust and recover. Inequities embedded in these systems lead to accumulated disadvantages in access to tangible and intangible sources of social support. The resulting inequality contributes to the over representation of individuals who are traumatized among the populations affected by major social problems, such as homelessness, substance abuse, low educational attainment, joblessness, and chronic poor health.?
In this class, students learn about societal efforts to insure the welfare of children, the rights of children and parents, child welfare policies, programs, and service delivery problems. Students examine historical and current practices, working with natural parents, supportive services, substitutes, and residential care.
SOWK 4000Social Work Practice with Organizations and Communities3
This course focuses on planning, assessment, organizing, and administrative skills that enable social workers to create change at the organizational and community levels.
This course prepares students to apply social work research methods to social work practice. Students learn the components of the research process in addition to interpretation and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data to implement at the generalist practice level with clients.
This course builds on psychosocial study, assessment, and treatment introduced in Social Work Practice with Individuals. It acquaints students with DSM-IV-R terminology and its uses for generalist social-work practice. It also explores the scope and depth of individual psychopathology, community concerns, prevention, and intervention approaches.
This seminar focuses on selected topics of particular significance or current importance and interest to the social work profession. Students can receive credit for more than one seminar provided that each seminar focuses on a different topic.
This course provides a supervised placement of 450 hours in a practice setting under the supervision of a social worker. The application of theoretical knowledge and skills, along with demonstrated competencies in working with various client systems, is emphasized.
