Sustainability Courses

Third course in a three-course sequence of generalist practice methods. Focuses on the values and ethics, knowledge base and intervention methods foundational to practice with organizations and communities. Working with organizations and communities to solve problems through assessment, planning, intervening, and evaluating. Accepted social work majors only (post candidacy).

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An overview of issues central to understanding and intervening upon intimate partner violence in the United States. An introduction to current theories, research, and implications for policy, prevention, and practice. Exploration of local services and legal remedies for domestic violence victims, perpetrators and their children.

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This course examines homelessness in Seattle and King County from social, economic, political, and ethical perspectives. Consideration will be given to the causes, characteristics, and potential cures of/for homelessness. Presentations from homeless and formerly homeless people, service providers, and local public officials responsible for policy responses to homelessness, are a key feature of this course

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History, scope, physiological, social, psychological, and family aspects of alcohol and other drug problems. Impaired driving. Progression and symptoms of addiction; types of alcoholics. Nature of addictive diseases: causality, treatment, and prevention.

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An examination of current ecological influences and their impact on culturally diverse children and youth in America including poverty and homelessness, exposure to community violence, child abuse and neglect, teenage parenting, and substance abuse in families. Exploration of child welfare policy and services, emphasizing the continuum of child welfare interventions.

Read more about SOCW-4350 : Social Work with Children and Youth

This is the first in a 3-course practice sequence designed to prepare students with the generalist knowledge, values, and skills to work with individuals and families. The course will draw upon theories of human and family development across the lifecycle as well as an ecological approach to understand human behavior within its environmental context. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the impact of the larger social and cultural environment on life challenges as well as on the helping relat...

Read more about SOCW-5110 : Generalist Practice I

This is the third in a 3-course practice sequence designed to prepare students with the generalist knowledge, values, and skills for generalist social work practice. This course provides conceptual frameworks, knowledge and skills for clinical social workers to contribute to changes in organizations, communities and policies to promote social and economic justice. The course will introduce selected concepts from organizational theory to understand and bring about change in community and organiza...

Read more about SOCW-5130 : Generalist Practice III

This course focuses on personal and professional development toward social work practice for social justice and complements the rest of the social work graduate curriculum by locating the self in a professional and political context. The purpose of this course is to enable students to articulate a personal-professional stance toward social work practice for social justice. This course aims to help students develop critical understanding of major theories of justice as well as the competencies of...

Read more about SOCW-5210 : Ethical Professional Formation

This course is designed as an introduction to the field of social welfare in the United States and the development of the social work profession. The course connects the history, ethics, justice and professional social work policy practice. It provides a framework for the analysis of social welfare policy and then uses that framework to explore selected social policy areas. Part of the framework involves an examination of the history both of social welfare in the United States and of the social ...

Read more about SOCW-5220 : Policy: History and Justice

This course provides generalist theoretical frameworks for understanding human development, human behavior, and the interaction between person and the environment. The course critically examines various theories from the ecological-developmental perspective, which emphasizes the ways in which the broader social environment shape human behavior and identity as well as effects of human behavior on the environment. Particular attention is paid to race, class, gender and sexual orientation as dynami...

Read more about SOCW-5310 : Human Behavior in Environment