Course Descriptions - Catalog of Studies - University of Arkansas

Course Descriptions
Couples (FA) The purpose of this course is to provide
advanced understanding of the knowledge, skills and values
needed to assess and intervene effectively with traditional and
non-traditional families and couples. The course will examine
social systems and life-course strengths approaches to understand
how families and couples function. Students will design
interventions. Prerequisite: SCWK 5003 or SCWK 5013.
SCWK5183 Advanced Practice with Individuals
(SP) This course develops advanced skills in social work
practice on a micro level. Students learn to analyze and compare
practice models. They gain skills in selecting a practice
model and integrating multiple models based on client needs.
Prerequisite: SCWK 5003 or SCWK 5013.
SCWK5193 Advanced Practice and Policy in
Aging (FA) This course focuses on social work practice
with, and policies for, older persons. Current, past, and future
practices and policies for older persons across systems and
the life course are explored. Emphasis is placed on the influences
of personal, social, economic, and cultural diversity on
the well-being of older persons. Prerequisite: SCWK 5003 or
SCWK 5013.
SCWK5213 Advanced Practice and Policy in
Mental Health (SP) This advanced course prepares students
to identify mental disorders, plan intervention strategies
with clients from a strengths perspective, and understand
mental health programs and policies through which services
are delivered. Differential diagnosis and the impact of socioeconomic
status, gender, race, and sexual orientation on diagnosis
and treatment decisions are addressed. Prerequisite:
SCWK 5003 or SCWK 5013.
SCWK5223 Advanced Practice and Policy in
Health Care (FA) This course examines the delivery of
health care in the United States in the context of social, political,
economic, ethical, and legal factors. Students gain skills
for collaboration on an interdisciplinary team. Prerequisite:
SCWK 5003 or SCWK 5013.
SCWK5233 Advanced Technology for Social
Work (FA) This course develops advanced skills in the critical
evaluation and use of information technologies for social
work practice. Emphasis is placed on using technological
advances to enhance the effectiveness of social work practice
across multiple systems, and developing skills for lifelong
learning about technologies in a rapidly changing information
age. Prerequisite: SCWK 5003 or SCWK 5013.
SCWK5253 Spiritually in Social Work (FA, SP)
This course provides a framework of knowledge, values,
skills and experiences for spiritually-sensitive social work
practice. It prepares students to respond competently and
ethically to diverse spiritual and religious perspectives by
using a comparative, critically reflective approach to content.
Prerequisite: SCWK 3103 or SCWK 5003 or SCWK 5013.
SCWK5343 Advanced Practice with Groups (SP,
SU) This course provides advanced knowledge, skills, and
values needed to assess and intervene effectively with populations
seen in the social work practice of group therapy. This
course examines group dynamics, life-course and strengths
perspectives, and client-centered assessment of needs and
their application in agency settings. Prerequisite: SCWK 5003
or SCWK 5013.
SCWK5412 Foundation Field Seminar (SP) A
required course for MSW students without an accredited
undergraduate degree in social work. The purpose of the
seminar is to allow students to integrate classroom content
with experiences in the field, to learn peer supervision and
consultation, and to learn from the experiences of other students
in the field. Corequisite: SCWK 5434.
SCWK5434 Foundation Field Internship (SP) This
course is required of all graduate students entering the MSW
program without an accredited undergraduate degree in
social work. Minimum of 330 clock hours of agency-based
professional social work practicum experience, supervised by
a licensed MSW, is required. Corequisite: SCWK 5412.
Prerequisite: SCWK 5003, SCWK 4333, SCWK 4073, SCWK
4093, and SCWK 4153.
SCWK5444 Field Internship III (SU) This course is
required of all graduate students entering the MSW program
with advanced standing. A minimum of 240 clock hours of
agency-based professional social work practicum experience,
supervised by a licensed MSW, is required. Corequisite:
SCWK 5442. Prerequisite: admission to graduate program
with advanced standing.
SCWK5442 Field Seminar III (SU) This seminar is
required of all graduate students entering the MSW program
with advanced standing. Students integrate classroom content
with experiences in the field, learn peer supervision and
consultation, and learn from the experience of other students
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
in the field. Corequisite: SCWK 5444. Prerequisite: admission
to graduate program with advanced standing.
SCWK6003 Life Course Multi-System Social
Work I (FA) In this first course of a two-semester
sequence, students select a community problem, provide
services to clients, and address the problem through policy
analysis. A review of literature regarding theory and practice,
paradigm analysis, development of a practice model, and
implementation of micro and mezzo interventions in the field
are examined. Corequisite: SCWK 6444, SCWK 6442, and
SCWK 5073. Prerequisite: completion of year one for twoyear
students, or summer semester for advanced standing
students.
SCWK6000L Thesis Laboratory (SP, SU)
Corequisite: SCWK 5073 and SCWK 6073.
SCWK6013 Life Course Multi-System Social
Work II (SP) In this second of a two-course sequence students
provide services to social work clients. This course
covers application of life course theory and multi-system and
diversity perspectives. Issues across the life course are considered
in addressing interventions through program development,
a grant proposal submission, and implementation of
macro interventions. Corequisite: SCWK 6073, SCWK 6454,
and SCWK 6452. Prerequisite: SCWK 6003.
SCWK6073 Social Work Research and
Technology III (SP) In this final research course, students
collect and analyze data as planned in the thesis proposal
submitted for Research and Technology II. Course content
focuses on the advanced research skills necessary to
complete the thesis. Students write a research report of their
findings and submit it for publication. Corequisite: SCWK
6013 and SCWK 6000L. Prerequisite: SCWK 5073.
SCWK6444 Advanced Field Internship I (FA) This
is the first of two advanced field internships required of all
graduate students in the MSW program. A minimum of 330
clock hours of agency-based professional social work
practicum experience, supervised by a licensed MSW, is
required. Corequisite: SCWK 6442. Prerequisite: SCWK 5434
or SCWK 5444.
SCWK6442 Advanced Field Seminar I (FA) The
first of two advanced field seminars required of all students in
the MSW program. The purpose of the seminar is to allow
students to integrate classroom content with experiences in
the field, to practice peer supervision and consultation, and
to learn from the experiences of other students in the field.
Corequisite: SCWK 6444. Prerequisite: SCWK 5412 or
SCWK 5442.
SCWK6454 Advanced Field Internship II (SP) This
is the second of two advanced Field Internship courses
required of all graduate students in the MSW program. A
minimum of 330 clock hours of agency-based professional
social work practicum experience supervised by a licensed
MSW is required. Corequisite: SCWK 6452. Prerequisite:
SCWK 6442.
SCWK6452 Advanced Field Seminar II (SP) This is
the second of two advanced field seminars required of all
students in the MSW program. The purpose of the seminar is
to allow students to integrate classroom content with experiences
in the field, to demonstrate peer supervision and consultation,
and to learn from the experiences of other students
in the field. Corequisite: SCWK 6454. Prerequisite: SCWK
6442.
(SEED) SECONDARY EDUCATION
SEED4223 Teaching of Mathematics (FA, SP, SU)
SEED560V Workshop (1-18) (IR)
SEED599V Seminar (1-18) (IR)
SEED600V Master’s Thesis (1-18) (IR)
SEED605V Independent Study (1-18) (FA, SP, SU)
SEED660V Workshop (1-18) (IR) Prerequisite:
advanced graduate standing.
SEED674V Internship (1-18) (IR) Prerequisite:
advanced graduate standing.
SEED680V Educational Specialist Project (1-6)
(IR)
(SOCI) SOCIOLOGY
SOCI2013 General Sociology (FA, SP, SU) Group
relations, culture, personality, social institutions, collective
behavior, and social change. UNIVERSITY CORE COURSE
SOCI2013H Honors General Sociology (FA, SP,
SU) Group relations, culture, personality, social institutions,
collective behavior, and social change. UNIVERSITY CORE
COURSE
SOCI2033 Social Problems (FA, SP, SU) Social disorganization,
social strains, and deviant behavior, including
consideration of war, poverty, ethnic relations, delinquency,
drug addiction, mental illness, and population problems. UNI-
VERSITY CORE COURSE
SOCI2043 Marriage and the Family (FA) A sociological
analysis of courtship, marriage, and parenthood patterns
including gender relations in and diverse forms of contemporary
American families.
SOCI3013 Population and Society (SP, Odd
years) The social significance of population; population distribution
and composition; population trends; and problems of
the population.
SOCI3023 Criminology (FA, SP, SU) A survey of theories
of crime causation, development of law, corrections, victimization,
and police and policy. (Same as CMJS 3023)
Prerequisite: SOCI 2013 or SOCI 2033.
SOCI3033 American Minorities (FA) A sociological
approach to the study of the culture, lifestyles, contemporary
issues and the psycho-social well-being of minority groups in
America. Prerequisite: SOCI 2013.
SOCI3043 Contemporary Caribbean (SP) The
background, development, social organization, problems, and
prospects of the contemporary people of the Caribbean
Islands and related territories.
SOCI3103 Religion and Society (SP) Comparative
study of religious organization, beliefs, practitioners, and rituals.
Examination of major social science issues in the study
of religion. (Same as ANTH 3103)
SOCI3123 Sociology of Work (SP) Study of the social
organization of work, changing work roles, theories of work.
SOCI3133 Urban Structure and Change (FA)
Static and dynamic nature of urban structure and the role of
space as social factor with attention on efforts to revitalize
residential neighborhoods in central city areas. Prerequisite:
junior standing.
SOCI3153 Urban Sociology (FA) The processes of
urbanization; the nature of urban social organization; the
impact of urban culture on non-urban society; implications for
policy and planning; including study of foreign as well as
American communities. Prerequisite: SOCI 2013.
SOCI3193 Race, Class, and Gender in America
(FA) Introduction to sociological theories and research on
social inequality in the United States. Course focuses on the
three prominent lines of social division in this society: class,
gender, and race. Prerequisite: SOCI 2013.
SOCI3203 Corrections (FA) A study of the origins,
development, and practices related to corrections, including
incarceration, community corrections and supervision, and
intermediate sanctions. (Same as CMJS 3203) Prerequisite:
CMJS 2003.
SOCI3223 Social Psychology (FA) Current theories
and research in social interaction, with emphasis on symbolic
processes, role theory, theories of interpersonal behavior,
socialization, and the relation of institutional structures to
individual behavior. Prerequisite: SOCI 2013.
SOCI3233 Collective Behavior (FA, SU) Emergent
non-institutional groups, such as crowds, public and social
movements, their genesis, process, effect, termination, and
control. Prerequisite: SOCI 2013.
SOCI3253 Cultures of the South (SP) Survey of the
diverse ethnic and racial groups of the American South with
special emphasis on social and cultural traits related to contemporary
developments. (Same as ANTH 3253)
SOCI3303 Social Data and Analysis (FA, SP) An
introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics with special
emphasis on those techniques most commonly used in
social research. Corequisite: SOCI 3301L. Prerequisite: SOCI
2013.
SOCI3301L Social Data and Analysis Laboratory
(FA, SP) Applied statistics lab to accompany SOCI 3303.
Corequisite: SOCI 3303.
SOCI3313 Social Research (FA, SP) Study and
experience in current methods of social research with
emphasis on sociological measurement and design.
Prerequisite: SOCI 2013 and SOCI 3303.
SOCI3333 Anthropology of Ethnicity (SP)
Anthropological approaches to the study of race and ethnicity,
with reference to other models such as gender, nation,
and class. Case studies drawn from Western and non-
Western societies, and from pre-colonial and post colonial
periods. (Same as ANTH 3333)
SOCI3723 Deviant Behavior (FA) Prevalence, theories,
stereotypical responses, and treatment programs for
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