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SOCW-2010 : Social Justice
Social Work | College of Arts and Sciences | UG
This course focuses on social justice issues in the United States, providing a theoretical and empirical knowledge base related to oppression, privilege, social justice, and liberation. The course will help studentscritically examine their social identities,embedded in race, gender, sexual orientation, age, class, ability status, religion, and national origin, and tounderstand how social structures and institutions enact oppression upon different social identity groups.
SOCW-3010 : Human Behav in Soc Environmt
Social Work | College of Arts and Sciences | UG
The theoretical perspectives for studying human behavior. The importance of organizations, communities, society and global influence in understanding human behavior in the social environment.
SOCW-3020 : Human Develop & Soc Work
Social Work | College of Arts and Sciences | UG
Psychological, physiological and social approaches to human development across the life span. Examines the effects of culture, social systems and institutions on individual development from an ecological perspective.
SOCW-3030 : Juvenile Justice
Social Work | College of Arts and Sciences | UG
Overview of the etiology of juvenile violence and delinquency from a developmental, ecological, and risk and protective factors conceptual framework. Discussion of contemporary issues including youth violence and its prevention and control in American society. Examining research leading to the best practices for working with youth. Cross-listed with CRJS 3030.
SOCW-3040 : U.S. Social Welfare Policy
Social Work | College of Arts and Sciences | UG
This course will assist students to understand contemporary social welfare policies in the United States. The course will focus on the dominant cultural values and the social, economic, and political forces affecting the establishment and maintenance of laws, public policies, and social welfare programs. It will also provide an examination of the histories of social welfare policy and the social work profession.
SOCW-3050 : Activism and Advocacy
Social Work | College of Arts and Sciences | UG
This course will focus on developing students' skills for pursuing social justice. Students will study principles of allyship, activism, organizing, and policy advocacy, and then assume the role of change agent as they conceptualize and engage in social change and activism. Students will develop the concrete skills for intervening in oppression both at the interpersonal level and at the community levels.
SOCW-3110 : Practice I: Social Work with Individuals and Families
Social Work | College of Arts and Sciences | UG
First course in a three-course sequence of generalist practice methods. Focuses on the knowledge, values and ethics, and methods for working with individuals and families. Skills in assessment, planning, interviewing, intervening, evaluating and terminating. Accepted social work majors only (post candidacy).
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SOCW-3170 : Race and Ethnicity
Social Work | College of Arts and Sciences | UG
Investigation of the social construction of race and ethnicity in comparative perspective, including the political and socio-historical factors affecting individual and group identities. Special attention paid to the economic and social-psychological dimensions of racism and domination. Cross-listed with SOCL 3320.
SOCW-3910 : Global Food Justice
Social Work | College of Arts and Sciences | UG
The course 'Global Food Justice' is designed to provide you with an Introductionduction to the prevalence of global food insecurity. It primarily focuses is on the importance of food as a human right and its impact on the well-being of an individual and community through their life-span. Additionally, it highlights the role of structural inequities and, underlying deep-rooted biases that impact access to nutritious food to millions around the world.
SOCW-4020 : Social Work Research Methods
Social Work | College of Arts and Sciences | UG
Methods of scientific investigation with application to the social welfare field. Values and ethics for social work research. Stages of the research process including design, data collection, qualitative and quantitative methods. Accepted social work majors only (post candidacy).