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SW 220: Writing and Documentation in Professional Practice
This course equips students with fundamental academic writing skills and essential written documentation proficiencies for diverse practice settings. Participants will learn to craft clear and concise professional documents crucial for client care, accountability, and legal compliance. This course is vital for adapting to regulatory requirements and developing effective professional writing.
SW 280: Introduction to Social Work
Introduces students to the social work profession and its value, skill, and knowledge bases.
SW 301: Human Behavior in the Social Environment I
Presents a social systems framework with a focus on individual and family systems. Emphasizes integration of social and behavioral theories.
SW 302: Human Behavior in the Social Environment II
A continuation of SW 301. Focus is on human behavior in the social environment, with an emphasis on groups, organizations, and communities from a social systems perspective.
SW 304: Social Work Practice I
Introduction to knowledge, principles, values, and skills for generalist social work practice.
SW 305: Field Practicum I/Seminar
A generalist base for social work practice that involves an on-site field agency practicum and a weekly seminar that focuses on continuing skill building for generalist social work practice. Integrates classroom learning with learning taking place during the field practicum.
SW 306: Social Work Practice II
Practice II continues the development of knowledge, values, and skills for generalist social work practice, with the focus at the group level. .
SW 308: Social Work Practice III
This course continues the development of knowledge, values, and skills for generalist social work practice. The focus, however, is on generalist practice at organizational and community levels using a social systems approach.
SW 310: Social Issues in Diversity
An-depth investigation of several groups with minority status and their patterns of interaction in the United States: Native, African, and Hispanic Americans; women as a minority group; religions minorities; and the gay and lesbian population. Emphasis on social work knowledge, values, and practice skills with members of diverse populations.
SW 313: Social Work and Aging
Social aspects of aging, including changing role definitions of older adults and the special problems of growing old in today’s society; services to the elder population. Economic and social justice issues and implication for social work practice are discussed.
SW 401: Social Welfare Policy
Includes current issues and problems of social welfare policy and programs within a historical context.
SW 405: Research Methods
This course is an introduction to the logic and the techniques of research in social science. The emphasis will be on measurement, sampling techniques, research design, and data analysis.
SW 406: Field Practicum II/Seminar
On-site field agency practicum integrating generalist social work knowledge, values and skills. Classroom seminar provides an opportunity for all seminar practicum students to integrate learning with practice experience.
SW 410: Research and Statistics
In this course, the student will learn to analyze, understand, and present data using the Statistical Program for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The basics of statistical analysis will be introduced. Students will become informed consumers of published social work research and will develop competence in conducting basic research analysis.
Bio 120: Medical Terminology
This course examines the specialized vocabulary used in medicine and science. By understanding root elements to which prefixes and suffixes are added, the student will be able to construct and analyze unfamiliar words to uncover their meanings.