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SWK 235 Family & Children’s Services This course explores the
needs of children and their families, the major programs which have
been designed to serve them and the issues which are involved.
Services covered in the course include protective services for abused
and neglected children and their families, home-based services,
foster home and institutional care of children and adoption. (2 s.h.)
SWK 250 Social Work Practicum I A field experience in a
professional human services setting under professional
administrative and educational supervision designed to provide the
student with a beginning understanding of the social service delivery
system, and the disciplined use of self as a technique for helping
others. Required minimum of 120 agency hours plus a weekly
seminar. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or written consent of
instructor. Offered both semesters. (4 s.h.)
SWK 275 Family Violence Identification, diagnosis and treatment
processes utilized in the prevention and treatment of family violence.
Examination from medical, legal, psychological and social
perspectives emphasizes the need for participation of the community
in treating this problem. (2 s.h.)
SWK 307 Social Welfare Policy Analysis A course designed to
develop skills in understanding the impact of social welfare policy
including development of analytic procedures. Recommended in
senior year. Offered fall semester. (2 s.h.)
SWK 315 Legal Aspects of Human Services The impact of
legislative and judicial decision-making upon the delivery of human
services is examined, along with the discretionary authority granted
to agencies that provide human service programs. (3 s.h.)
SWK 340 Human Behavior in the Social Environment This
course brings together knowledge from social, psychological,
spiritual, and biological disciplines and places them within
frameworks used by generalist social workers to understand,
analyze, and intervene in human situations. Included will be the
knowledge and application of ecological, developmental, systems,
and diversity frameworks to generalist social work practice. The
course is designed to help students understand and use
empowerment and strengths-based practice. Prerequisites or Corequisites:
SWK 121, 250 and completion of the Sociology of the
Family, Psychology of Human Development, and Biology
supporting course requirements of the major. Offered fall semester.
(4 s.h.)
SWK 361 Interviewing: Supervision and Teaching This is a
course for selected senior Social Work students that provides an
opportunity to teach interviewing skills and supervise others.
Working in a small group laboratory, under supervision of an
instructor, students in this course teach, supervise, critique and offer
feedback to others who are studying interviewing techniques. (1-3
s.h.)
SWK 362 Social Work Practice with Individuals & Families This
course is designed to provide basic knowledge and skills needed to
work directly with individuals and families. The knowledge base
includes comprehension of external and internal forces that initiate,
sustain and modify human behavior within the individual and their
environment; techniques for utilizing those forces; and an organized
approach to problem solving. This course will build upon the
student’s knowledge base of behavior and environment to integrate
empowerment and strengths-based approaches and problem solving
skills for generalist practice. To gain experience relevant to various
practice activities, the client/social worker interview simulation, and
its related assignments, are a central part of this course.
Prerequisites: SWK 340 and junior class standing. Offered spring
semester. (4 s.h.)
SWK 363 Social Work Practice with Groups Generalist social
work practice includes the application of an eclectic knowledge
base, and professional values and skills to bring about change in
many types of groups. This course will provide opportunities to
explore theories about groups and practice competencies for
generalist social workers working with groups, large and small. Corequisites:
SWK 340 and junior class standing. Offered fall semester.
(3 s.h.)
SWK 364 Social Work Community and Policy Practice This
course will focus on macro practice of generalist social workers. It
will include the knowledge, values and skills social workers use to
bring about change in large systems, i.e., organizations, and
communities. Changing agency or social welfare policies, planning,
implementing and evaluating programs, and initiating and directing
projects in agency or community contexts will be included to
prepare students to carry out multilevel (systems) interventions.
Prerequisites: SWK 340 and junior class standing. Offered spring
semester. (3 s.h.)
SWK 365 Social Work Practicum II An advanced experience (180
hours) in a professional social work setting under professional
administration and educational supervision designed to prepare the
student for generalist social work practice. There is also a seminar
for cognitive integration of professional knowledge, skills and
ethical practice. May be taken concurrently with SWK 366. It will
be necessary for each student to purchase liability insurance.
Prerequisites: Senior class standing, SWK 362, 363 and 364, and
written consent of the instructor. Offered both semesters. (4 s.h.)
SWK 366 Social Work Practicum III An advanced experience
(180 hours) in a professional social work setting under professional
administration and educational supervision designed to prepare the
student for generalist social work practice. There is also a seminar
for cognitive integration of professional knowledge, skills and
ethical practice. May be taken concurrently with SWK 365. It will
be necessary for each student to purchase liability insurance.
Prerequisites: Senior class standing, SWK 362, 363 and 364, and
written consent of the instructor. Offered both semesters. (4 s.h.)
SWK 395, 396 Internship in Social Work Individually designed
agency experience adapted to student interests and skill
development, may include research, specifically structured social
work experience, computer analysis and other requirements
established by a Social Work faculty supervisor. From 50 to 75 hours
are required per credit, as certified by agency supervisor and faculty
supervisor. In some placements it may be necessary for a student to
purchase liability insurance. Prerequisite: Consent of Social Work
instructor. These courses are not equivalent to SWK 250, 365 or 366.
(1-4 s.h.)
SWK 197, 297, 397 Topics in Social Work Program faculty will
occasionally offer special courses on timely subjects of interest to
departmental majors or other students on campus. (2-4 s.h.)
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