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Social WorkCredits

The purpose of this course is to prepare students for advanced social work practice in a public, private, and tribal child welfare settings. This course is required for MSW Child Welfare Scholars. The course is designed to provide the student with a focused, practice-oriented learning environment that will build upon previous experiential and academic learning. The emphasis will be upon increasing the student's conceptual and practice skill level to become an effective social worker in a child welfare setting while increasing knowledge of historical and current federal and state child welfare policies, programs, and practices.

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Government and Public Administration
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This task group-based course provides students with the policy advocacy practice skills needed to advance human rights and promote social, racial, economic and environmental justice. Students research and write a policy advocacy brief and develop and implement an advocacy plan on a state-level policy issue, through a human rights, anti-oppressive, and anti-racist lens.

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Government and Public Administration
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This course provides students with advanced generalist theories, knowledge, values, and skills related to practice with couples and families. Through experiential learning and through a culturally responsive, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive lens, students will analyze, develop, and apply advanced knowledge and skills in the assessment and incorporate culturally responsive methods and interventions with couples and families.

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Government and Public Administration
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This course provides students with advanced generalist knowledge, values, and skills in critical areas of administrative social work practice. Students develop competence in needs assessment, organizational change, program planning, grant writing, leadership, social work supervision, and other aspects to effectively managing social service agencies. Students are prepared to provide culturally responsive, anti-oppressive, and trauma-informed agency-based leadership to diverse populations in rural and small community settings.

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Government and Public Administration
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Students are introduced to conceptual underpinnings of group work and its application across diverse population domains. Students learn and apply group conceptualization, theoretical frameworks, and interpersonal skills for effective evidence-informed group facilitation. Students learn methods, theories, and stages of group development. Students explore historical reflections on group work and the impact of racism, poverty, sexism, ableism, in the provision of group work and group dynamics. Engagement with culturally responsive, anti-racist, and anti-oppressive methodologies are integrated. Students explore ethical implications of group work theory and application.

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Government and Public Administration
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Specialization Practicum and Seminar I provides students with the opportunity to integrate social work knowledge, values, skills, and cognitive/affective processes reflected in advanced generalist behaviors through practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities.

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Government and Public Administration
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The purpose of Clinical Social Work Practice with Infants, Children, and Adolescents is designed for students who plan to work in a clinical setting with infants, children, and/or adolescents. The course prepares students to understand development, attachment, developmental stressors and trauma, developmental resiliency, biopsychosocial factors, and evidence-based social work interventions. Students will consider the intersections of development, attachment, stressors and trauma, and resources from a biopsychosocial framework to increase knowledge on how infants, children, and adolescents become identified at-risk and how these concerns can compromise development and what support and/or interventions contribute to developmental growth and change over time.

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Government and Public Administration
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This course provides students with advanced generalist knowledge, values, and skills for evaluation of interventions, programs, and practice with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations. Students develop skills in qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods, survey design methodology, and data collection strategies. Students will develop knowledge of how to collaborate with community partners to conduct evaluation through a data justice lens and with a data equity perspective.

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Government and Public Administration
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Specialization Practicum and Seminar II is a continuation of SOWK 665 Specialization Practicum and Seminar I. Students integrate social work knowledge, values, skills, and cognitive/affective processes reflected in advanced generalist behaviors through practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities.

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Government and Public Administration
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Under faculty mentorship, students may pursue in-depth library or field research on topics of their choice.

The purpose of this course is to acquire advanced clinical practice knowledge and skills that can be integrated into current systems of mental/behavioral health practice. Emphasis is placed on contemporary evidence-based assessment and intervention practices, integrated critical analysis, and culturally responsive and reflective practice. Graduate degree in social work or other related discipline and admittance into the Post-Graduate Advanced Clinical Practice Training Series is required.

Advanced Clinical Practice II is a continuation of Advanced Clinical Practice I.The purpose of this course is to acquire advanced clinical practice knowledge and skills that can be integrated into current systems of mental/behavioral health practice. Emphasis is placed on contemporary evidence-based assessment and intervention practices, integrated critical analysis, and culturally responsive and reflective practice. Graduate degree in social work or other related discipline, admittance to the Post-Graduate Advanced Clinical Practice Training Series.

Individual research.

Internship in approved social agency.

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Government and Public Administration
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SociologyCredits

Overview of the structure and processes of social life; impact of social forces on individuals and groups; interdependence of society and the individual; social significance of social class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality; emphasis on critical analysis of social inequalities and injustice.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences | Goal Area 8 - Global Perspective | Diverse Cultures - Purple
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Government and Public Administration
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A critical description and analysis of selected social problems, as well as the social problems process through which problems are socially constructed and defined. A social constructionist approach examines how people and social systems define and react to social problems. Emphasis on the sociological perspective, critical thinking, roots of social inequality, and exploration of solutions and alternatives to existing social problems.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences | Goal Area 7A - Human Diversity | Diverse Cultures - Purple
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Government and Public Administration
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Develop knowledge and application of statistical concepts and methods to facilitate research in social sciences disciplines. Students learn to work with quantitative databases obtained from census, social surveys, and experiments. Develop data analysis skills and use of statistical software programs. Practice data interpretations and statistical decision-making as used in everyday government, non-profit/for-profit, healthcare, academic and research organizations.

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Goal Area 4 - Mathematical/Logical Reasoning
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Government and Public Administration
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Relationships, marriage, and families are studied from a sociological perspective. Focuses on the connections between society, culture, social institutions, families, and individuals. Particular attention is given to the ways that race, ethnicity, social class, gender, and sexuality shape family patterns and dynamics.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences | Goal Area 7A - Human Diversity | Diverse Cultures - Purple
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Government and Public Administration
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Explores the social construction of sex and sexuality. Key topics include the social, cultural, and historical construction of sexual identities, sexual bodies, sexual politics, sexual socialization, and sexual technologies, in the context of the sexual activities, beliefs, and morals of people.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences | Goal Area 7A - Human Diversity | Diverse Cultures - Purple
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Government and Public Administration
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This course examines the role of animals in society and the social relationships between humans and other animals. Students will explore how culture and society shape the ways other animals are integrated and treated in our families, schools, economy, legal system, and other social institutions. Through dialogue and writing students will identify their own perspectives on nonhuman animals and our relationships to them.

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Goal Area 2 - Critical Thinking | Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Writing Intensive
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Government and Public Administration
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This course explores sociological understandings of deviance including: an overview of major sociological theories of deviance; examinations of specific examples of high consensus criminal deviance (i.e., murder, rape, street crime, white collar crime), lifestyle deviance (i.e., alcohol and drug abuse, sex work), and status deviance (i.e. mental illness, obesity and eating disorders, LGBTQ identities). This course will emphasize how social constructions of deviance reinforce inequalities in society.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility
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Government and Public Administration
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A critical consideration of how conceptions of juvenile delinquency are socially constructed, emphasis on interactional and institutional contexts in which delinquent behavior takes place, critique of current theories on delinquency, and the juvenile justice response to delinquency.

Topics vary as announced in class schedule. May be retaken for credit if topic varies.

Topics vary as announced in class schedule. May be retaken for credit if topic varies.

This course reviews the fundamentals of social research methods. Students will learn about process of designing research studies and key methods of social science research; they will develop skills to read social science research articles and understand research findings. Students will also develop and practice research skills.

Graduation Requirements:
Writing Intensive
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Government and Public Administration
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