Graduate Catalog: 2012-2013 - Alabama A&M University

among special educators and general educators,families, and interagency personnel.SPE 665: Supervising Collaborative ConsultationProgram 6-12 – Three semester hours. This courseis designed to provide opportunities for teachers ofadolescents with disabilities with practicalexperience in facilitating collaborative activitiesamong special educators and general educators,families, and interagency personnel.SPE 667: Professional Writing (3)- This coursefocuses upon professional writing strategies andprocesses for professional educators. The courseemphasis is upon identifying funding sources,professional organizations, and refereed journals forwhich professional writing is appropriate.SOCIAL WORKSWK 500 Social Work Practice I - Three semesterhours. The course focuses on the history, foundationdomains and roles of social work practice. Itintroduces the generalist social work practice modelwith emphasis on an overview of the social workprofession, discussion of social work values andethics, and applications of the generalist model toindividuals and families. Required of all students inthe 60 hour degree program. (Prerequisites:Admission to the MSW program.)SWK 501 Social Work Practice II – Threesemester hours. Continuation of SWK 500.Explores further the roles, domains, philosophy androles of social work practice. Basic theory, values,ethics and methods generic to social work practiceat various system levels are presented with anemphasis on practice with mezzo and macro systems(e.g., families, groups organizations andcommunities). This course is required all studentsin the 60 hour degree program. (Prerequisites: SWK500)SWK 510 Social Welfare Policy & Services I -Three semester hours. Examines the historicalevolution of social welfare institutions; political,economic, religious, social and ideologicalperspectives will be analyzed. This course isrequired all students in the 60 hour degree program.SWK 511 Social Welfare Policy & Services II -Two semester hours. Continuation of SWK 510 -Social Welfare Policy & Services I. Emphasizesanalytic models of welfare policies and laysframework for decision making. Contemporaryissues will be discussed and international policiesexamined. This course is required for all students inthe 60 hour degree program.(Prerequisites: SWK 510)SWK 520 Human Behavior in the SocialEnvironment I - Three semester hours. Theoriesconcepts, and knowledge about human developmentand behavior within the context of the socialenvironment through the study of life cycledevelopment in the ecological system. Major socialand cultural institutions and their impacts on diverseindividuals, families, groups and organizations willbe examined. This course is required for allstudents. This course is required for all students inthe 60 hour degree programSWK 521 Human Behavior in the SocialEnvironment II - Three semester hours. This is thesecond of a two-course sequence dealing with adultdevelopment, including old age and death. Thesocietal impact of families, groups, andorganizations on the elderly and the elderlyinteraction with these systems and their diverseimpacts will also be discussed. This course isrequired for all students in the 60 hour degreeprogram. (Prerequisites: SWK 520, 500 and 510).SWK 522 Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Diversity- Three semester hours. This course will introduceand sensitize students to the major concepts ofculture, sub-culture, race, ethnicity and gender,cultural diversity, and pluralism and conflicts causedethnocentrism, discrimination and prejudice.Further, it will emphasize public policies as well asinterpersonal responses and the relationship betweenrace, ethnicity, gender, diversity and social workpractice. Emphasis is placed on the examination ofmajor ethnic sub-cultures as well as sub-culturalgroupings based on such factors as gender, race,ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, sexualorientation, physical and mental abilities and otherdifferences in human populations. The commonelements of oppressions are emphasized andprejudicial and discriminatory practices areevaluated from both micro - and macro theoreticalframes of reference. This is a course is required ofall students.SWK 523 Rural-Urban Social Work - Twosemester hours. Develop and apply theoreticalknowledge and skills used in Urban and RuralSocial Work Practice. Overall, the course assumesgeneral knowledge of basic concepts inissues/problems, policies, community organizations,163