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SPED 646 - Special Education Internship 1 Lab Hours
The purpose of this course is to provide candidates further and more focused experience in working directly with students with disabilities. Candidates will be assigned to a setting with students with disabilities and work with a certified special education teacher. The candidate observes in this setting and takes an active part in the classroom activities. Through this experience candidates will observe similarities and differences across various aspects of development in students with a variety of disabilities, demonstrate communication and collaboration skills with teachers and related service providers, and will observe and participate in the delivery of different forms of instruction. Candidates will reflect on this experience and address key questions, experiences and issues through focused observations and reflections on specific classroom elements such as behavior management, modes of communication within the classroom, and use of evidence based practices. A university supervisor and the special education cooperating teacher or principal will evaluate the candidate as part of this internship experience. Candidates also complete a self evaluation as part of this internship.
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SPED 656 - Collaboration and Adaption in General Education Settings 2 Credit Hours
In this course candidates will examine the importance and process of collaboration with family, classroom teachers, paraeducators, paraprofessionals and other school and community personnel in integrating individuals with disabilities and special learning needs into various social and learning environments. Candidates will examine the Response to Intervention (RTI) model, teacher roles and responsibilities in the Response to Intervention process for both academics and behavior, evidence based practice for students with and without disabilities, including Positive Behavior Intervention Supports and other Tier 1 academic and behavior interventions as well as universal design for instruction. Additional elements of this course include coverage of instructional supports and interventions for ELL students and for students with disabilities within the general education setting. Candidates will study the process of examining the learning environment and classroom demands combined with the learning characteristics of the student for the purpose of selection of appropriate strategies and materials. Candidates will investigate techniques for modifying instructional methods, curricular materials and the environment as well as modification of state and local assessments.
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SPED 659 - Managing Challenging Behavior 3 Credit Hours
In this course candidates will study use of appropriate non-aversive, least intrusive management procedures when presented with a variety of behavioral problems including challenging behavior. Candidates will learn the PBIS model; evidence based practices for individual behavior management, crisis prevention, conflict resolution; and effective use of reinforcement. Attention will also be given to procedures to help individuals develop self-awareness, self-control, self-reliance, self-esteem and self-determination and manage their own behavior and for fostering maintenance and generalization of skills across learning environments. As part of this course candidates will study and complete of functional assessments of behavior and develop behavior intervention plans based on student case studies.
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SPED 662 - Academic Methods of Special Education 3 Credit Hours
The purpose of this course is to prepare candidates to use a variety of instructional strategies and to create learning experiences that encourage K-12 students’ development across many skill domains. The content will focus on a balanced approach to reading instruction, written language, and mathematics instruction at the K-12 levels, and support of instruction in the middle and secondary content areas (social studies, science). Principles and techniques associated with evidence-based practices and methods for assessment, planning, and instruction will be addressed, including delivery of tier 2 and 3 of a Multi-Tiered System of Supports. An emphasis will be placed on various forms of lesson planning (direct instruction, inquiry, and UDL) and learning strategy instruction for middle and secondary schools. Technology to support students’ academic development will also be explored.
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SPED 663 - Planning and Assessment in Special Education 3 Credit Hours
This course focuses on the instructional planning involved in special education and ongoing assessment as a necessary component to this planning. This course addresses development of Individual Educational Plans (IEP’s) and Transition Plans for students with various disabilities across the age span of K-12. Using case studies, candidates will write IEP’s and prepare transition plans for students in special education with particular attention given to development of statements of present levels of performance, annual goals, short term objectives/benchmarks, progress monitoring and reporting of progress, the least restrictive environment, and access to general education and documentation of modification of instruction and assessment in general education settings . The importance of linkages to outside agencies In transition planning will also be addressed within this course. Issues of confidentiality, collaboration with family, community and other professionals will be stressed. As part of this course candidates will examine curriculum based measurement with a focus on progress monitoring and data based decision making as each relates to the Response to Intervention Model through the use of case studies and student CBM data.
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SPED 664 - Curriculum and Methods for Students with Moderate to Severe Disabilities 3 Credit Hours
In this course candidates will study instructional techniques and specialized methods that may be aspects of instruction of students with moderate to severe disabilities. This includes coverage of the functional curriculum across a variety of domains including self care, life skills, recreation/leisure, domestic, community and career/vocational. Specialized interventions and methodology for individuals (preschool through high school) with a focus on physical (including positioning/ support), communication (including augmentive communication), and other techniques and methods that support student learning and development of key functional skills will also be addressed. Candidates will examine assessment and adjustment of learning environments, planning and development of instructional programs directed toward objectives established for a variety of key skills, provision of opportunities for student choice and development of positive self-concepts. This course will also include consideration of the importance of use of appropriate materials emphasizing functionality, instruction in natural settings, and interactions between students with and without disabilities.
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SPED 702 - Clinical Practice Seminar in Special Education 1 Lab Hours
In this course candidates engaged in their clinical experience in special education meet for weekly seminar meetings. Within these meetings, candidates discuss their clinical experience, examine classroom challenges, and discuss their roles and responsibilities as professionals in the field of special education. Reexamination of candidates’ individual philosophies of education, preparation of resumes and the certification process are also addressed within this seminar. Concurrent enrollment in SPED 703 is required with this course.
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SPED 703 - Clinical Practice in Special Education 4 Credit Hours
In this course, candidates will be involved in a full-time, full semester guided experience in classrooms working with students with disabilities. This course offers candidates the opportunity to apply, in a diverse setting, the knowledge and skills gained through the program’s course work and fieldwork. Candidates will provide direct instruction to students individually, in small groups, as a whole class in inclusive and special education classrooms. Candidates are expected to demonstrate communication and collaboration skills with teachers and families of students with disabilities, to participate in and provide instruction based on evidence based practices, and design/provide modifications based upon specific needs of students across skill domains (academic, social, physical, behavioral, etc.). Within this clinical setting, candidates will demonstrate the ability to interpret information from formal, curriculum based measures and informal assessment s. Candidates are observed and evaluated by a university supervisor multiple times during the semester. The candidates themselves and the special education cooperating teacher or principal evaluate the candidates as well. Concurrent enrollment in SPED 702 is required with this course.
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SPED 705 - Clinical Internship In Special Education
In this course, candidates who are seeking special education certification as a second certificate, will be involved in an intensive, guided experience in a special education classroom with students with disabilities. This course offers candidates the opportunity to apply, in a diverse setting, the knowledge and skills gained through the program’s course work and fieldwork. Candidates will provide instruction of students individually, in small groups, as a whole class in inclusive and/or special education classrooms. Candidates will be encouraged to use diagnostic prescriptive teaching and multi-sensory instruction based upon specific needs of students across skill domains (academic, social, physical, behavioral, etc.). Within this clinical setting, candidates will demonstrate the ability to interpret information from formal and informal assessment procedures, develop assessment strategies for instruction and create varied opportunities for all students to participate using effective written, verbal, nonverbal and visual communication. Course offered on satisfactory/fail basis only.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites SPED 526 , SPED 649 , SPED 654 , and SPED 655 .
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STA 200 - Ghana: A Gateway to Africa 1-3 Credit Hours
Listed also as BWS 201
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STA 223 - Drawing on Florence 3 Credit Hours
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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STA 231 - Strasbourg French Language Program 6 Credit Hours
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STA 251 - The Art of Renaissance and Baroque Rome:1400-1700 3 Credit Hours
Winter interim only.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in fine arts.
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STA 258 - China: Exploring the New Age of Ambition 3 Credit Hours 1 Lab Hours
Students concurrently enrolled in POSC 258 register for 1 credit hour; other students register for 3 credit hours.
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STA 260 - The al-Andalus in World Literature: Interfaith Dialogue and the People of the Book 4 Credit Hours
Satisfies the world literature requirement for education students; counts as an honors course.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature.
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STA 282 - Florence: The City as Renaissance Text 3-4 Credit Hours
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature.
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STA 299 - International Service Study Abroad: Guatemala, Haiti 1 Lab Hours
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in multicultural studies.
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STA 328-329 - Study and Intern in Florence 16 Credit Hours
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STA 330 - Cuba-Culture, History, and Politics 6 Credit Hours
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STA 335-336 - Study in Salamanca 18 Credit Hours
Fall and/or spring semester(s).
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STA 352-353 - Study in Limerick, Ireland 18 Credit Hours
Fall and/or spring semester(s).
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STA 366-367 - Study in Stellenbosch, South Africa 18 Credit Hours
Fall and/or spring semester(s).
Listed also as BWS 366-367 .
This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies.
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STA 370-371 - Study in Blackfriars Oxford 18 Credit Hours
Fall and/or spring semester(s).
Prerequisite(s): Minimum 3.7 GPA required.
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STA 372-373 - Strasbourg: European Business 12-18 Credit Hours
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STA 374 - Strasbourg: European Business 7.5 Credit Hours
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STA 394 - Paris: Essentials of French Fashion 15 Credit Hours
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STA 403 - China: Modernization, Tradition, and Culture 3 Credit Hours
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SWG 107 - Black Women In Society 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as BWS 107
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SWG 200 - Introduction to the Study of Women and Gender 3 Credit Hours
This class is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of the study of women and gender through a critical examination of feminist perspectives, theories, histories, issues, critiques, and practices. The course focuses on U.S. women and places emphases multiracial standpoints and experiences.
This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies.
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SWG 204 - Introduction to Latin American Studies 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as LLAS 204
This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies.
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SWG 205 - Introduction to Latinx Studies 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as SOC 205 and LLAS 205
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in multicultural studies.
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SWG 220 - Women In Philosophy 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as PHIL 220 .
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SWG 221 - Gender Issues 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as PHIL 221
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in philosophy.
This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies.
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SWG 222 - Black Women Writers 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as ENGL 222 and BWS 222
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature.
This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies.
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SWG 230 - Sociology of Gender 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as SOC 230 .
This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies.
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SWG 233 - Bad Girls of the Bible 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as THEO 233
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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SWG 235 - Women in Political Philosophy 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as POSC 235 .
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SWG 239 - Latin@ Religious Experience and Theology 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as THEO 239 and LLAS 239
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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SWG 248 - Gender and Sexuality in Latin America 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as LLAS 248
This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies.
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SWG 256 - Marriage and Family Life 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as THEO 256
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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SWG 257 - Women and Religion 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as THEO 257 .
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SWG 263 - Women of the Italian Renaissance 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as ITAL 263
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature.
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SWG 273 - Great Women Mystics 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as THEO 273
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SWG 277 - Women and Film 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as CAS 277 .
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SWG 278 - Women, Gender, and Literature 3 Credit Hours
Exploration of the development of women’s writing and writings about women and gender through study and analysis of literary (narrative, poetry, drama) and nonliterary texts.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature.
Listed also as ENGL 277
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature.
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SWG 286 - Masculinity and Communication 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as CAS 286 and SJCE 286
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SWG 290 - French Women Writers: Poetry, Theater, Prose 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as FREN 290 .
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SWG 299 - Community-Based Learning 1 Lab Hours
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SWG 320 - Gender and Violence 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as CRIM 320 and SOC 320 .
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SWG 325 - Introduction to Hispanic Cinema 3 Credit Hours
INTRODUCTION TO HISPANIC CINEMA-This course introduces students to the study of Hispanic cinema (from Spain and Spanish-speaking Latin America), with special attention paid to the distinct art of movie making. Content may include a survey of renowned directors and their contributions to world cinema, thematic intersections of culture with social and political realities of the Hispanic world, or major cinematic movements and trends.
Listed also as SPAN 325 andCAS 325
Prerequisite(s): SPAN 320 or consent of instructor.
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SWG 330 - Human Sexualities 3 Credit Hours
This course uses inter-disciplinary frameworks to explore historical and contemporary understandings of sexuality. This perspective deepens our understandings of human sexualities, encouraging the examination of a wide range of human sexual experiences across cultures and the history of our species. We use the biopsychosocial framework to address some of the basics of our anatomy and physiology. We use social science theories and research to explore norms and values, behaviors, actions, desires, and identities, and to assess how our social and cultural ideas of human sexuality and identities are shaped.
Listed also as SOC 330
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SWG 335 - The 1.2%: Words of Women in the Bible 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as THEO 325
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in theology.
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SWG 350 - Medieval Women and Gender 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as HIST 350
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101
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SWG 351 - Gender and Development 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as SOC 350 and LLAS 350
This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies.
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SWG 352 - Images of Woman in Drama 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as THEA 350 and ENGL 207 .
Prerequisite(s): Sophomore, junior, or senior standing.
This course will satisfy the core area requirement in literature.
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SWG 353 - Special Topics in Culture and Civilization 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as SPAN 350 (when SPAN 350 topics are relevant to the study of women and gender)
Prerequisite(s): See SPAN 350
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SWG 358 - Gender and Media 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as CAS 358 .
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SWG 380 - Contemporary Feminist Theories 3 Credit Hours
In this class, we will examine the development of U.S. feminist thinking beginning with the 1960s. We will explore perspectives such as Marxist, liberal, and radical feminism, and examine the impact of feminist philosophical thought and the transition from second- to third-wave feminism.
Listed also as PHIL 380
Prerequisite(s): SWG 220 or SWG 221 or consent of the instructor.
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SWG 381 - Transnational Feminist Theories 3 Credit Hours
We live in a globalized world. Our lives are integrated by economies, mass media, and policies. With all we have in common there is much that divides us. We are all citizens of the world but we are situated in different positions-we have different values, priorities, and analyses. Transnational feminism engages the similarities, differences, and contradictions to create a theoretical framework for social change across genders, sexualities, race and ethnicities, social classes, regions, and nations. Framed by critiques of “universal sisterhood” launched by women of color and feminists from the Global South, this course challenges the conventional Western story of feminism. As we analyze the workings of power and gender in different cultural contexts and within international feminist discourse, we will also focus on the creative cultural practices women use to negotiate their lives and consider various challenges and strategies of transnational feminist projects.
Listed also as SOC 381
Prerequisite(s): SOC 230 or SWG 200 or consent of instructor.
This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies.
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SWG 382 - Constitutional Law III: Gender and Race 3 Credit Hours
Listed also as POSC 382 .
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SWG 383 - Gender, Race, and Science: Theoretical Perspectives 3 Credit Hours
This course explores the racialized and gendered foundation of science and investigates how these roots continue to influence contemporary thinking. Participants examine evidence of racial and gender bias in science and scrutinize the paths and fruits of the scientific revolution and enlightenment thinking with respect to racial and sexist oppression.
Listed also as SOC 383 .
This course will satisfy the core requirement in multicultural studies.
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SWG 395 - Independent Undergraduate Research or Creative Investigation 1-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor.
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SWG 400 - Interdisciplinary Frameworks for the Analysis of Women and Gender 3 Credit Hours
This upper-level theory course will focus on interdisciplinary and multicultural epistemologies, theories, and methodological approaches to the study of women and gender.
Prerequisite(s): SWG 200 and junior standing or consent of the instructor.
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SWG 495 - Independent Undergraduate Research or Creative Investigation 1-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor.
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SWK 510 - Social Work Practice with Individuals & Families 3 Credit Hours
This beginning practice course introduces students to the basic processes of social work and the roles and skills needed for foundation practice. Relevant theories of social work practice with individuals and families are explored in relation to interviewing skills and assessment strategies. The course integrates ethical/value standards, multicultural and diverse contexts, and populations at risk including the elderly, refugees, immigrants, victims of torture and societal violence. Effective practice methods, ethical issues in domestic and international social work practice, and the change process are incorporated from a strengths based empowerment perspective.
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SWK 511 - Field Practicum I 3 Credit Hours
This is the first part of a yearlong seminar required of all first-year MSW students completing a field internship. The course combines lecture, discussion and personal reflection in a small-group format as means for students to integrate practice theory with practice experience. This course begins the student’s journey to becoming a professional social worker through skill development and use of self-examination and reflection as means to explore the practical and ethical skills needed for social work practice in a globally focused, family-centered framework.
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SWK 512 - Social Work Research Methods 3 Credit Hours
This beginning research course introduces the fundamentals of conceptualizing, developing, implementing and evaluating research. Ethical standards of scientific inquiry, research designs, sampling methods, and quantitative and qualitative methods for knowledge building will be introduced. The course enables students to apply social scientific methods to answer research questions that have significant importance to social work practice and policy and to apply knowledge that is developed from research to enhance and strengthen the knowledge base of the profession. This course presents the conceptual foundations and methods of research in order to help students integrate research knowledge with professional social work practice. The need for increased awareness and sensitivity to the special research issues in relation to oppressed groups, minorities, and other diverse groups will be discussed.
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SWK 513 - Human Behavior in The Social Environment 3 Credit Hours
Provides students with information on the bio-psychosocial life span development and the influence of various social systems (families, groups, organizations and communities) in relation to the social, cultural, spiritual, ethnic, economic and political environments.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: Psychology major and senior standing
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SWK 514 - History of Social Work & Social Welfare 3 Credit Hours
The first of three required courses in social policy defines social policy; examines the social, economic, and political circumstances that give rise to social problems and their policy solutions, and explores frameworks for analyzing these solutions and reviews a history of the profession of social work and its relation to social welfare policy. Special emphasis is given to social and economic justice as reflected in historical social welfare policy decisions made in America.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: Psychology major and senior standing
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SWK 524 - Social Work as Leadership for a Global Society 3 Credit Hours
This course prepares students for global citizenship and leadership in action for personal transformation, advocacy, and social change using a human rights framework grounded in a value for diversity. Students will understand what it means to be a global citizen and ethical leader navigating macro systems leading towards sustainable change by building leadership skills in administration, supervision, professionalism, advocacy, management, and cross- cultural conflict resolution.
Prerequisite(s): Corequisites(s): SWK 550 and SWK 551
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SWK 550 - Social Work Practice with Groups 3 Credit Hours
This course describes social work practice with groups. It begins by delving into the history of group work in social work practice. Pioneers in the field of group work are discussed. Essentially, this course explains the stages of group development, as well as concepts and theories related to group work treatment. In addition, different styles of group leadership are presented, as well as group member roles. Students are expected to role play various stages of group development. Group process also incorporates an ecosystems perspective, with overall emphasis on empowerment utilizing a strengths perspective. Special attention is given to human rights, social justice, and cultural and global issues with respect to social work practice with groups. Prerequisite: SWK 510
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SWK 551 - Field Practicum II 3 Credit Hours
This is the second part of a yearlong seminar required of all first-year MSW students completing a field internship. The course combines lecture, discussion, and personal reflection in a small-group format as means for students to integrate practice theory with practice experience. This course continues the student’s journey to becoming a professional social worker through skill development and use of self-examination and reflection as means to explore the practical and ethical skills needed for social work practice in a globally focused, family-centered framework. Prerequisite: SWK 511
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SWK 553 - Human Behavior in Social Environment II 3 Credit Hours
This is the second in a series of three courses directed toward the examination of human behavior in the social environment. The purpose of this course is to educate students on issues of human diversity and develop a framework for social work practice in the international culture in which we live. An eco-systems approach is utilized, in addition to readings and class discussions regarding issues facing women, gay men and lesbians, people of color, the disabled and international problems such as human trafficking, poverty, and cultural issues involving immigrants. Prerequisite: SWK 513
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SWK 606 - Supervision in Social Work 3 Credit Hours
This course focuses on the role and function of the social work supervisor in human service agencies. Social workers in supervisory positions are increasingly accountable for the clinical and macro practices of their subordinates and, in addition, have responsibility for effective and efficient function of the administrative components of their units, departments or groups of employees. Topics include the supervisory relationship and learning styles. Social workers with a graduate MSW degree are often called upon to fill supervisory roles in human service agencies. Ultimately, the supervisor is responsible for the quality of services delivered to clients/consumers in the community. This course is designed to help prepare social workers for the challenges of supervision and administrative roles with human service agencies.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: completion of foundation year course work or permission of advisor and instructor.
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SWK 610 - Advanced Social Work Practice: Models within a Family Context 3 Credit Hours
The course on advanced social work practice with families contains an historical and global perspective on family-centered practice. It introduces major theories and intervention types that underpin work with diverse families.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: All 500 level courses
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SWK 611 - Field Practicum III 3 Credit Hours
This course is required for advanced-standing students and those in the second year of the MSW program who are in field placement. The course focuses on advanced skills and particular globally focused, family-centered techniques used with vulnerable and oppressed populations at each stage of the direct practice helping process and with difficult practice situations, such as resistance and involuntary clients, broken families, child abuse and neglect, and other serious social problems affecting individuals, client groups, dyads and family systems. Case examples representing complex client situations are drawn from the populations served by students in their fieldwork placements with a specific emphasis on working from a social-justice and human-rights perspective in the field.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: All 500 level course
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SWK 612 - Practice Evaluation 3 Credit Hours
This course focuses on the development of knowledge and skills necessary to evaluate clinical practice with individuals, groups and communities within a global context. Ethical practice includes an ongoing and systematic evaluation of practice. Building upon foundation research principles, this course examines methods for measuring clinical outcomes using multiple measurement methods and determining change in client outcomes using single-system designs. The course teaches students how to use single-case evaluation methods to guide decision-making and assess the effectiveness of their social work practice. The emphasis of the course is the utilization of a strengths-based, empowerment approach in addressing clients’ problems within the context of personal strengths, social work values and social welfare services and policies. Prerequisite: SWK 512
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SWK 614 - Family Centered Policy Global Continued 3 Credit Hours
This is a policy course for advanced-level MSW students. It continues to build on foundation year policy courses, SWK 514 and SWK 554, as well as foundation-level knowledge, values and skill development. The class format offers students an arena in which to critically analyze with growing sophistication the theoretical base underlying their work and the interplay of their own personal value frameworks with core social work ethics and values and their impact on family-centered policy in a global context.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: All 500 level courses
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SWK 620 - Empowerment Practice with Latinos 3 Credit Hours
This course provides a framework for culturally relevant social work services designed to meet the needs of the Latino/a community. Through the use of creative literature, film and social science theory, students will acquire a core understanding of issues of identity, cultural history, and the political and social realities of Latinos. The inter and intra group differences will be highlighted. Special attention will be given to the growing phenomena of transnationalism. Students will acquire core principles grounded in an understanding of social justice, privilege and oppression. These principles will be applied to special topics in clinical practice, community empowerment, and the development of a public policy agenda.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: SWK 513 and SWK 553
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SWK 621 - Human Rights, Gender and Globalization 3 Credit Hours
Human Rights, Gender and Globalization is a three-credit graduate level course which fulfills the advanced diversity requirement. This course seeks to expand student’s understanding of how all of our lives are shaped by social structures and the historical contexts in which we live. This course explores themes of social and economic development, globalization, gender, and social justice within the Latin American context. Specific objectives include: to encourage cultural understanding, to become aware of and respect Salvadoran norms and values, to learn of the lived economic reality of the Salvadorans, and to promote social justice.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: SWK 513 and SWK 553
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SWK 622 - Negotiating Social, Cultural and Psychological Borders 3 Credit Hours
Historically a multi-ethnic and multi-racial country, the United States is becoming increasingly diverse as a consequence of global immigration. Students will learn demographic trends related to immigration and address the experience of immigrant groups by understanding how the reception by the host society, racialization, class, gender, and characteristics of the ethnic community impact the adaptation of immigrant/refugee groups. Grounded in this contextual understanding, students address specific issues for immigrant and refugee families such as inter-generational issues, language and cultural maintenance, family separations, and histories of trauma and political torture.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: SWK 513 and SWK 553
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SWK 623 - Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Social Policy 3 Credit Hours
Conceptions of race and ethnicity have played a pivotal role in American political discourse and in the formation of social policy. Through the use of social science literature on group identity formation, race, ethnicity, and immigration as well as fiction, film, and autobiographical accounts, this course exams social constructions of race and ethnicity and the intersections with gender, citizenship, and class as an analytical tool for understanding the development and implementation of social policies. This course will address policy issues such as the role of privatization, affirmative action, immigration, etc. and their impact on communities of color. Contemporary questions and challenges raised by an increasingly multicultural society for social policy and practice are explored.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: SWK 513 and SWK 553
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SWK 624 - Feminist Approach to Clinical Practice with Individual and Families 3 Credit Hours
In this course, students will gain an understanding of feminist, multicultural, and social identity theories and how they can be used to understand the impact of social and cultural forces; specifically, status and power differences, oppression, social norms, and role expectations in the development of behavior, identity, health problems and solutions. Drawing from a strengths perspective approach in a global environment, students will develop the ability to articulate, analyze, implement, and evaluate a practice framework from human rights, advocacy and social justice perspective. Through a womanist/feminist lens, we will explore themes such as gay and lesbian couples, issues of race difference within a family, transracial adoption, resiliency of families, family separations as a result of immigration and immigration policies, and other issues as they related to contemporary families. The seminar format offers students an arena in which to critically analyze with growing sophistication the theoretical base underlying their work and the interplay of their own personal value frameworks with core social work ethics and values.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: SWK 513 and SWK 553
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SWK 625 - Race, Gender and Human Rights in The Guatemalan Context 3 Credit Hours
This course seeks to expand your understanding of how all of our lives are shaped by social structures and the historical contexts in which we live. This course explores themes of race and racism, social and economic development, globalization, gender, and social justice within the Guatemalan context. Specific objectives include: to encourage cultural understanding, to become aware of and respect Guatemalan norms and values, to learn of the lived economic reality of the Guatemalans, and to promote social justice. In so doing, a human rights approach will be taken in the study of the impact of colonialism, the role of culture, poverty, violence, and violations of human rights found in inadequate prosecution of violence against women and children as well as the recent events regarding the genocide indigenous peoples. This course will emphasize the role of women as human rights defenders within Guatemala.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: SWK 513 and SWK 553
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SWK 630 - Social Work and Health 3 Credit Hours
Methods of social work practice in health care are studied within the bio-psycho-social-spiritual framework. Assessing clients and client systems and interventions are expanded on to include medical treatment, physical functioning and socio-cultural meaning assigned to illness. Focus will be on strategies for coping with illness, identity formation and the impact of illness on family relationships. Intervention strategies will be geared towards prevention, palliation and rehabilitation of illness in a variety of health care settings. The roles and competencies that social workers develop in these settings will be emphasized.
Previously numbered as SWK 522.
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SWK 631 - Health Disparities and Social Determinants of Health 3 Credit Hours
This course provides students with the opportunity to gain insights into the challenges that people of color face and low socioeconomic status face that both impact individuals’ health. Additionally, students will learn of the challenges they may have accessing treatment or received equitable treatment. This course provides students with the opportunity to develop a critical theoretical lens by which to analyze the complexities of health disparities and to evaluate, analyze, and make recommendations aimed at reducing health disparities and empowering communities of color.
Previously numbered as SWK 629.
Prerequisite(s): SWK 513 and SWK 553 or advanced standing.
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SWK 640 - Mental Health: History, Theories, Treatment 3 Credit Hours
This course presents mental health through a distinctly social work perspective. The course introduces students to biological, developmental and environmental sources of mental illness and to empirically recognized risk, mediating and protective factors that influence these sources. The course emphasizes assessment, including the use of DSM-5, with approaches to evaluate human behavior and functioning throughout the lifespan, and advanced clinical skills to treat clients with special attention given to vulnerable and diverse populations. The person is not defined by diagnosis or condition. Mental illness is seen through different theoretical orientations including strengths perspective and also within a social context. Persons are viewed holistically, as participating members of their families and communities. The course will also address the economic structures of the mental health system and the impacts of managed care and welfare reform on mentally ill adults, adolescents and children.
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SWK 641 - Community Based Participatory Research 3 Credit Hours
The course focuses on the use of practice evaluative approaches to examine outcomes of organizational and community practice. Principles of program evaluation, participatory action research, community needs analysis as well as evaluative methodologies that inform agency and community practice will be explored. Building on the advanced evaluation methods course, this course provides students with the skills to enhance their program evaluation abilities and their understanding of community data to enhance decision-making in program development and community outreach. The special emphasis on community based participatory research provides a framework consistent with social work values and ethics and the importance in assisting communities in defining their own needs.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: SWK 512 and 612
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SWK 642 - The Resilient Social Worker 3 Credit Hours
The Resilient Social Worker: Practices for lifelong balance and professional satisfaction The demands placed on social worker workers in supporting people through challenging circumstances can contribute to high levels of stress, fatigue, and burnout. Self-care practices implemented regularly may decrease those levels while also serving as strategies for coping during particularly stressful times. This class will serve to deepen student’s understanding of self and how that self interacts with the workplace. Students will explore the effects of social work practice on their lives (compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue, including burnout and vicarious trauma), discern their strengths and areas for growth around self-compassion and self-care, practice skills to enhance their well-being (mindfulness skills, setting boundaries, accessing intuition, expressive arts), and create a flexible, individualized self-care plan to be used during the semester and beyond. Students will develop the tools to maintain balance and connection in their lives as a professional social worker.
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SWK 644 - Child Welfare I 3 Credit Hours
This course will cover the areas needed by a new child welfare worker to adequately provide services to children and youth in Illinois. It will examine professional and ethical behavior in child welfare, as well as cultural competence in working with clients. Focus will be on the engagement process, assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation of children needing services and their families. Students will also learn trauma-informed practice and how to implement it with children and youth whose care has been compromised. Students will become familiar with the State of Illinois Policies and Procedures, which guide child welfare practice in Illinois. This course will prepare students to take the Child Welfare Employee Licensure Exam and the Child Endangerment and Risk Assessment Protocol Test, both of which are needed for students to be able to successfully complete a Concentration Year Field Placement in Child Welfare with youth receiving Illinois Department of Children and Family Services interventions. These two exams will be offered as part of the course.
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SWK 645 - Child Welfare II 3 Credit Hours
This course is the second of two courses needed to complete all of the study requirements for achieving a Child Welfare Employee License. The focus is on determining the strengths and needs of children and knowing the child welfare process for children who are determined to be in need of social services. Students will learn how to use the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) tool in determining what the needs of the child and adolescent as well as their families are. Students will also learn how to engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate children and adolescents who are in the child welfare system. They will learn how to engage in family-centered, trauma-informed, strengths-based practice, how to plan for permanency for children in out-of-home care, and how to work with the Juvenile Court. Students will also take the CANS exam and the Placement exam, both of which, when combined with the two exams in Child Welfare I, are required to obtain a Child Welfare Employee License. Upon employment by a child welfare agency, students will be able to obtain their Child Welfare Employee License.
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SWK 646 - Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Clients 3 Credit Hours
This course seeks to expand the student’s understanding of how to employ affirmative models of social work practice with LGBT individuals and families. The ecological- and strengths-based approaches will provide a theoretical frame for this course. These constitute two of several theoretical lenses that will examine the destructive person: environment relationships that exist between LGBT individuals living in a predominantly heterocentric environment and how they cope with these stressors. Course content will be organized within the following five domains: (1) postmodern perspectives on gender; (2) developmental models for acquiring gay and lesbian identity; (3) social work practice with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons; (4) race and ethnicity, families, youth, and aging; and (5) specific challenges facing the LGBT communities such as homelessness, domestic violence, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS.
Prerequisite(s): SWK 513 and SWK 553 . SWK 553 may be taken as a corequisite with SWK 646.
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SWK 651 - Field Practicum IV 3 Credit Hours
This course is required for advanced-standing students and those who are in their second field placement in the MSW program. It focuses on advanced skills and particular globally focused, family-centered techniques used with vulnerable and oppressed populations at each stage of the direct practice helping process and with difficult practice situations, such as resistant and involuntary clients, broken families, child abuse and neglect, and other serious social problems affecting individuals, client groups, dyads and family systems. Case examples representing complex client situations are drawn from the populations served by students in their fieldwork placements with a specific emphasis on working from a social-justice and human-rights perspective.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisites: All 500 level courses and SWK 611
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SWK 655 - Community Practice 3 Credit Hours
This course examines the theories, approaches, and analytical tools that social workers utilize in community organizing, planning, and development practice for the purpose of achieving neighborhood, community and wider social change. The course considers approaches, concepts, and definitions of community and the roles of organizations in change efforts, especially those in diverse, low-income urban communities. A primary course objective is to explore how community practice attempts to intervene to shape the environmental and structural conditions that affect individual and family functioning. The course also examines the theoretical bases of these interventions, and the implementation strategies through which they play out in daily practice. The course includes discussion of both historic and current examples of community action practice in Chicago and nationally. Throughout, the course emphasizes political and economic conditions and events that shape, constrain, and enable community action and social change.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: SWK 510, 550, 610 or advanced standing.
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SWK 657 - Master Thesis 3 Credit Hours
This is a master thesis course resulting in a substantive paper that involves original research and scholarship. The final product of a master’s research project is a thesis or a paper of publishable quality. This course includes the stages of defining a research topic and formulating a problem statement, selecting and reviewing relevant literature and developing a research methodology. At the end of this course, the student is expected to produce a research proposal with a comprehensive literature review, identify a specific research focus, and describe data collection procedures of the study. Following a successful thesis hearing, the student is expected to submit an IRB application. Please contact your advisor to consider this option.
Prerequisite(s): SWK 512 or advance standing.
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SWK 660 - Substance Abuse Treatment & Prevention 3 Credit Hours
This course provides an overview of the problem of substance abuse for the individual, the family and society. The course will focus on the concepts of drug pharmacology, alcohol pharmacology, drug and alcohol use and history, treatment approaches from various theoretical perspectives, research and evidence-based practice, and special populations including adolescents, family, individuals with mental illness and substance use, and the elderly. The course will provide a model for effective social work treatment and intervention at different levels of practice.
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SWK 663 - Global and Practice Perspective in Aging Care 3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to help students develop the knowledge, information, and skills necessary for successful and competent practice with older adults, their families, agencies and communities. It provides content on current and future demographic contexts. This course provides analysis of current psychological, social, programs/services and intervention approaches with older persons. Tools for applying the strengths perspective to work with older adults are examined and implications of each of these elements for culturally competent practice are explored. Students will examine and assess mental health practice methods and related research in accordance with the values and ethics of social work.
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SWK 664 - School Social Work 3 Credit Hours
This course covers the development of social work practice in school settings, provides the historical development of schooling in American society, discusses relevant education laws, discusses issues of race, class and gender in schools and society, and focuses on special issues related to school social work practice. Students will be introduced to readings from literature in social work, education, and the law as they pertain to the needs and rights of students in an academic setting. This elective course is designed for students interested in the delivery of social work services in a K-12 educational setting upon completion of the MSW program. It is relevant for students who are interested in pursuing a Type 73 Certification in Illinois or licensure for school social work practice outside of Illinois.
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: All 500 level courses
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SWK 665 - Seminar International Social Work 3 Credit Hours
This seminar is designed to broaden students’ exposure to world problems and to the existence of alternative solutions to social problems through an economic and social-justice approach. The interrelationship between domestic and international social welfare issues will be highlighted, and the functions and contributions of social work internationally will be examined. The course will also make students aware of the opportunities for international collegial exchange through participation in international social work organizations.
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