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Graduate Curricula
social control, or social action. Students will
develop advanced practice skills through group
leadership and group membership activities,
observations, readings, discussions, and reflective
journaling. Students will plan, initiate, lead, and
evaluate a social work group in the field, work,
or other pre-arranged setting. Recognizing group
work as a key to achieving social justice, this
course emphasizes work with populations at risk.
Registration is restricted to concentration year
students. Prerequisite: Completion of foundation
coursework.
MSW 610. Human Behavior I
(Required)
3 credits
The goal of this course is to provide information
about the multiple factors which affect human
biological growth, personality development, and
behavior. This course will focus on the interactions
between the developing person, his/her family,
and the social systems in which that lifelong
development takes place. Human development is
studied within the context of those biological,
psychological, and socio-cultural systems which
affect, and are affected by, human beings.
Incorporated into this context is current knowledge
related to ethnic minorities and oppressed
groups. In connection with such course content,
attention is also focused on differences in values
and life styles, and the issues that they generate
for the understanding of human development,
and for the role of the social work practitioner.
MSW 620. Human Behavior II
(Required)
3 credits
Aspects of human behavior are examined in their
socio-cultural context emphasizing structure,
class, ethnicity, race, sexuality, and age as major
themes. This course will examine a number of
social and social-cultural theories which contribute
to an understanding of the interactions
between individuals and the social environment.
Contemporary human-social problems, which are
evidenced at societal, organizational, and group
levels of interaction, will be discussed not only
from the perspective of socio-cultural theory, but
in terms of personal and collective ethical stances
as well. Prerequisite: MSW 610.
MSW 710. Research I (Required) 3 credits
The purpose of this course is to assist students in
gaining knowledge and skills and to understand
the problems generalist social workers encounter
and the methods for evaluating change. Students
in the course will develop the ability to understand
research on conceptual, theoretical and
practical levels in order to become an effective
consumer and practitioner of research.
Corequisites: MSW 510, 591.
MSW 720. Research II (Required) 3 credits
This course focuses on research methods and
tools to understand and assess specific social
work problems by using observations of behavior
and social environments, needs assessment,
assessment of client system functioning, program
evaluation and practice effectiveness. Both quantitative
and qualitative research methodologies
are studied in research designs ranging from single
subject designs through group designs to program
evaluation. Prerequisites: MSW 710, 510,
591; Corequisites: MSW 520, 592.
MSW 740. Research III (Required) 3 credits
Analysis of research proposals developed during
the first two courses will be of central concern in
the course. Accordingly, students will have the
opportunity to explore analysis issues and apply
the statistical material to data sets. The logic
behind and application of descriptive and inferential
statistical analyses will be introduced.
Students will be responsible for processing data
on micro-computers using SPSS software.
Prerequisites: Completion of Foundation coursework.
Statistics and submission of research proposal
to HSRB Committee (Co-requisites: MSW
540, 594)
MSW 810. Social Policy I (Required) 3 credits
This course examines the history of the social
work profession and its contribution to the devel-
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