2014-2015 Graduate Course Catalog 
    
    May 17, 2024  
2014-2015 Graduate Course Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


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Special Education

  
  • SPE 520 - Methods and Curricula in Early Childhood Special Education

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Curricula, program design, and teaching methods for educating infants and young children with disabilities.
  
  • SPE 600 - Selected Topics

    1-3 credit(s)
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • SPE 609 - Teaching Children and Adolescents with Autism

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Cognitive, social, and communication needs of children and adolescents with autism. Examines program development, behavioral management, and effective educational strategies for this population of students.
  
  • SPE 612 - Adapting Instruction for Diverse Student Needs

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Double Numbered with: SPE 412
    Methods and materials to ensure that diverse student needs are met in classrooms. Focus on individual differences in learning, behavior, physical abilities, and emotional characteristics. Other differences will also be considered (e.g., race, gender). Additional work required of graduate students. Admission to a teacher preparation program.
  
  • SPE 613 - Developmental Therapy for Children with Disabilities

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Integrated occupational/ physical therapy interventions and curricular modifications for children with special needs, ages birth to 5 years, in collaboration with early childhood special education planning.
  
  • SPE 615 - Seminar in Teaching

    1-2 credit(s) Every semester
    Opportunities for students to critically reflect upon their inclusive field experience. Emphasis on professionalism, collaborative problem solving (including classroom management), planning and implementing curriculum and teaching strategies and becoming a productive school change agent.
    COREQ: EDU 508 
    Repeatable 1 time(s), 3 credits maximum
  
  • SPE 618 - Augmentation of Communication in the Inclusive Classroom

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Supporting students who are users of augmentative and alternative communication in inclusive classrooms. Variety of communication approaches, systems, and devises. Academic, social, legal, and policy issues.
  
  • SPE 621 - Sociology of Disability

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: DSP 621 
    Sociological perspectives on disability treatment approaches, and social policy toward the disabled. Personal and public forms of stereotyping, prejudices, and discrimination.
  
  • SPE 623 - Families of Students with Disabilities

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Critical, contemporary issues affecting children and youth with special needs and their families.
  
  • SPE 627 - Early Intervention for Children’s Reading Problems

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Crosslisted with: RED 626 
    Researchbased instruction for prevention and remediation of reading difficulties. Focus on preschool and early elementary children at risk for reading problems, as well as older elementary children labeled learning disabled, reading disabled, or dyslexic.
  
  • SPE 633 - The High-Risk Infant: Medical Treatment and Educational Interventions

    3 credit(s) Only during the summer
    Major medical conditions of newborns, associated developmental delays and disabilities, and ethical issues of medical treatment in neonatal intensive care. Problems of preterm, full-term, and post-term infants. Current issues (e.g., substance abuse, HIV-AIDS).
  
  • SPE 634 - Collaboration/Cooperation in Schools

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: EDA 634 
    Formal specialized services and informal support networks that promote collaboration between teachers, administrators, therapists, paraprofessionals, students, families, and community members.
  
  • SPE 644 - Significant Disabilities: Shifts in Paradigms and Practices

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: DSP 644 
    Curriculum development, methods, materials, and instructional strategies, emphasizing inclusive settings. Discrimination encountered; history and experiences (e.g., eugenics, racial stereotypes, gender roles, and ideas of progress); perspective of those with significant disabilities.
  
  • SPE 649 - Practicum in Significant Disabilities

    1 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Field-based practicum with students with significant disabilities in inclusive settings.
    COREQ: SPE 644 
  
  • SPE 652 - Assistive Technologies for Integrating Students with Special Needs

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: DSP 652 , IDE 652 
    Development of integrative technologies and strategies that can be functional in both educational and work environment. Support and adaptation for individuals with physical, educational, and language challenges.
  
  • SPE 653 - Positive Approaches to Challenging Behaviors

    3 credit(s) Only during the summer
    Approaches for supporting elementary children with challenging behaviors. Conflict resolution, peer mediation, prosocial behavior, skillstreaming, and cooperative learning.
  
  • SPE 665 - Positive Behavior Supports in Secondary Schools

    3 credit(s) Only during the summer
    Approaches to help support positive behavior in adolescents. Theories and characteristics of emotional and behavioral disabilities; historical perspective; current research; assessment techniques; effective strategies for schools, classrooms and individuals.
  
  • SPE 688 - Social Policy and Disability

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: CFE 688 , DSP 688 
    Trends and issues in the field and forces within society (political, economic, cultural, historical, and social) that affect people with disabilities.
  
  • SPE 690 - Independent Study

    1-6 credit(s)
    Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
    Repeatable
  
  • SPE 705 - Practicum in Psychoeducational Evaluation and Planning for Exceptional Children

    3-6 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Working on a psychoeducational teaching laboratory team, students learn to evaluate and plan programs for youngsters with puzzling learning and/or behavioral difficulties using home and school observations, formal, informal, and curriculum-based assessment strategies.
  
  • SPE 706 - Seminar in Early Childhood Special Education

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Key issues facing the field of early childhood special education. Medical and environmental influences on development, teen pregnancy, substance abuse, current legislation affecting programs,and new approaches to early intervention.
  
  • SPE 724 - Inclusive Professional Practices in Special Education

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Roles and responsibilities of special education teachers in inclusive schools. Essential skills and dispositions associated with quality inclusive practice, including professional standards, ethical principles, individualized educational planning, and research-based practices.
    PREREQ: SPE 612  OR 412
  
  • SPE 727 - Perspectives on Learning Disabilities

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Historical and current theoretical perspectives. Research related to factors that interfere with learning and its implications for instruction. For students in learning disabilities, special education, communicative disorders, rehabilitation, reading, and psychology.
  
  • SPE 860 - Proseminar in Inclusive Education

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Research approaches. Methods, conceptual processes for research design, and practice. How scholars frame research questions, incorporate values in research development, and interpret research findings.
    Repeatable 1 time(s), 6 credits maximum
  
  • SPE 900 - Selected Topics

    1-3 credit(s)
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable

Sport Management

  
  • SPM 600 - Selected Topics

    1-3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • SPM 611 - Intercollegiate Athletics in Higher Education

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The emergence of intercollegiate athletics in higher education. The academic, socio-cultural, economic, and political benefits and costs. Reform initiatives, athletic governance, and oversight processes impacting athletic policies, advising practices, and support services.
  
  • SPM 612 - College Student Athletes

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Understanding college student-athletes based on theories of development and college student diversity including gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disability, international status and preparation. Complexities, challenges and opportunities for student-athletes. Examination of eligibility, advising and support practices.
  
  • SPM 613 - Practicum in Intercollegiate Athletic Support Services

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Supervised practicum experience in an athletic advising and support services unit within a department of intercollegiate athletics. A two-hour biweekly seminar is required. Instructor consent required.
    PREREQ: SPM 611  AND SPM 612  AND HED 621  AND (HED 721  OR HED 712 )
  
  • SPM 614 - Foundations of Sport Venue and Event Management

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Application of sport management theory to venue and event management associated with hosting, managing and sponsoring events. Management process, including theory of management and practical applications within the sport venue and event planning industry.
  
  • SPM 624 - Sport Facilities Management

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Planning and managing different types of sport facilities. Through examples and recognized theory, students gain understanding about the complexity involved in conceptualizing, constructing, promoting, managing and maintaining modern sport stadiums, arenas, domes and multi-purpose facilities.
    PREREQ: SPM 614 
  
  • SPM 634 - Sport Event and Hospitality Management

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Theoretical and practical principles and procedures for designing, planning, implementing, and evaluating a variety of sporting events.
    PREREQ: SPM 614 
  
  • SPM 635 - Marketing of Sport Venues & Events

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Students will learn concepts and skills of sport marketing, sponsorship, and revenue generation as they pertain to a variety of sport venue and event settings.
  
  • SPM 644 - Technologies in Sport Venues

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Technology applied to sport management, venue management events, infrastructure, and performance measurement systems. Information, communication and data management systems in sport organizations within the intercollegiate, professional and international segments of the sport industry.
    PREREQ: SPM 614 
  
  • SPM 645 - The Strategic Management of People in Sport

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    A survey course of management theory, principles, and techniques in the sport industry, with a particular emphasis on managing the various types of workers (e.g., employees, contractors, volunteers), necessary to produce sport services and events.
  
  • SPM 654 - Sport Venue Operations

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Producing and implementing various sport and entertainment events. Organizational set-up, planning and execution of events in multi-purpose sport facilities. Analyze logistics, budgeting and operational costs of transforming venue into different sporting and entertainment configurations.
    PREREQ: SPM 614 
  
  • SPM 664 - Financial Management of Sport Facilities and Events

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Sport finance applied to managerial control of sport venues and events. Fundamental business concepts. Analysis of financial statements, budget forecasting and planning, securing optional funding sources and capital budgeting as related to multiple sport venues.
    PREREQ: SPM 614 
  
  • SPM 665 - Advanced Sport Event Management

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Students will build upon prior coursework and knowledge through the planning of a local sport event. All facets of the event will be covered in detail and applied to the actual event.
  
  • SPM 670 - Experience Credit

    1-6 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.
    Repeatable
  
  • SPM 690 - Independent Study

    1-6 credit(s)
    Repeatable
  
  • SPM 700 - Selected Topics

    1-3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable

Solid-State Science and Technology

  
  • SST 684 - Modern Microstructural Techniques

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: MTS 684 
    Basic principles, capabilities and applications of various microstructural methods not covered in MTS 581 and MTS 682. Scanning electron microscopy, electron probe microanalysis, X-ray fluorescence, field ion microscopy.
    PREREQ: MTS 581 
  
  • SST 820 - Selected Topics in Solid-State Science and Technology

    1-4 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Recent developments in the field.
    Repeatable
  
  • SST 990 - Independent Study

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    Exploring a problem or problems in solid-state science. Individual independent study upon plan submitted by student.
    Repeatable
  
  • SST 997 - Masters Thesis

    0-6 credit(s)
    Repeatable
  
  • SST 999 - Dissertation

    1-15 credit(s)
    Repeatable

Applied Statistics

  
  • STT 690 - Independent Study

    1-6 credit(s)
    Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.
    Repeatable
  
  • STT 750 - Statistical Consulting

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Crosslisted with: MAT 750 
    Experience in working with real data taken from current projects in the statistical laboratory and from published papers.
    Repeatable

Kiswahili

  
  • SWA 620 - Language Training in Preparation for Research Using Kiswahili

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Language instruction to prepare students to conduct research in areas that require knowledge of Kiswahili. Permission of instructor.
    Repeatable 3 time(s), 12 credits maximum

Social Work

  
  • SWK 600 - Selected Topics

    1-3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Exploration of a topic in social work, not covered by the standard curriculum, but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • SWK 601 - Fundamentals of Social Work Practice I

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Preparation for beginning social work interventions. Theories of practice and rehearsal of problem solving and communication skills with individuals, families, and groups in client, target, and action systems.
    COREQ: SWK 671 
  
  • SWK 602 - Fundamentals of Social Work Practice II

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Design, implementation, and evaluation of intervention strategies in social work practice. Intervention with individuals, families, and groups in the context of agencies, organizations and communities.
  
  • SWK 611 - Social Welfare Policy and Services

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Historical antecedents of social welfare policy, programs. Social work values, roles. Structure and organization of public and voluntary strategies for achieving economic security, health, and mental health welfare goals. Cultural, racial, ethnic, gender diversity. Policy analysis frameworks.
  
  • SWK 626 - Persons in Social Context

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: WGS 626 
    Assessment of behavior of diverse individuals, groups, and social systems. Applying concepts from the biological, behavioral, and social sciences in identifying and understanding forms and causes of behavior.
  
  • SWK 628 - Human Diversity in Social Contexts

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: WGS 628 
    Diversity, including race, gender, sexual orientation, and selected topics. Examines individual, group, and institutional identity formation. Theories of biopsychosocial development, reference group affiliation, social stratification, oppression, and institutional discrimination. Implications for social work practice.
  
  • SWK 635 - Readings in Feminist Psychological Theories

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Crosslisted with: WGS 635 
    Feminist psychological theories will be identified and analyzed. The intersection of feminist theory and traditional psychological theory, with particular critique to mental health interventions and programs will be examined.
  
  • SWK 640 - Issues in Health Care

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Aspects of health care delivery for social work practice. Social patterns of illness and utilization of health care facilities relevant to present and future organization of health care facilities.
    Repeatable
  
  • SWK 641 - Divorce Mediation

    3 credit(s) Only during the summer
    Crosslisted with: MFT 641 
    Basic theory and skills of divorce mediation. Includes introduction to conflict resolution theory, divorce law, financial planning, custody issues, and marital and family dynamics related to divorce.
  
  • SWK 657 - Processes of Aging

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Double Numbered with: SWK 357
    Intrinsic aging processes, changing needs, and characteristics of aging populations, and the impact of age related forces in American society, with special attention to aged groups disadvantaged by virtue of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and poverty. Additional work required of graduate students.
  
  • SWK 658 - Practice and Policy in Adult Corrections

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Double Numbered with: SWK 458
    Overview of adult corrections. Criminal justice policies related to ethnicity, poverty, gender. Substance use, health and disability, and violence are explored within the context of correctional setting and offender populations. Applications to social work practice.
  
  • SWK 662 - Applied Research in Social Work

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Crosslisted with: MFT 663 
    Design and execution of research in human service settings. Proposal development, creation of quantitative and qualitative instruments, coding of data, computer-based data analysis, and production of research reports.
  
  • SWK 671 - Field Instruction I

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Supervised practice experience to apply knowledge, social work principles, values, and methods and obtain increasing competence and skill for professional practice. No credit will be given for completion of only one semester of field work.
    COREQ: SWK 601 
  
  • SWK 672 - Field Instruction II

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Supervised practice experience to apply knowledge, social work principles, values, and methods and obtain increasing competence and skill for professional practice. No credit will be given for completion of only one semester of field work.
    PREREQ: SWK 671 
    COREQ: SWK 602 
  
  • SWK 689 - Individualized Readings Program

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Selected readings in social work and related fields under guidance of appropriate faculty.
  
  • SWK 690 - Independent Study

    1-6 credit(s) Every semester
    In-depth exploration of a problem or problems. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor or instructors and the department.
    Repeatable
  
  • SWK 700 - Selected Topics

    1-3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Exploration of a topic in social work not covered by standard curriculum, but of interest to second year graduate students and faculty in a particular semester.
    Repeatable
  
  • SWK 702 - Social Work Practice in Family Mental Health

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Advanced family systems practice. Exploration of topics including chronic mental illness, chronic physical illness, couple issues, child focused families, alternative families, aging and death. Political and social contexts of practice.
    PREREQ: SWK 732 
  
  • SWK 703 - Direct Service with the Elderly

    3 credit(s) Irregularly
    Analysis of social work practice models/theories, and development of professional skills as they apply to practice problems confronted in work with the elderly.
    PREREQ: SWK 601 , SWK 602 , SWK 657 
  
  • SWK 707 - Short Term Intervention in Social Work

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Development of clinical skills in Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Cognitive Therapy and Narrative Therapy. Intervention effectiveness is stressed,. Role playing, lecture, group processing and assignments specific to each approach are used to facilitate skill development.
    PREREQ: SWK 601 
  
  • SWK 709 - Practice with Children, Adolescents and Families

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Intervention models examined in the framework of family empowerment and advocacy for organizational change. Examines implications of diverse, culturally based child rearing practices for design of intervention strategies to strengthen and empower families.
    PREREQ: SWK 730 
  
  • SWK 710 - Topics in Advanced Social Work Practice and Policy

    1-6 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Developing issues and current trends. Shifting directions in social work practice and theory: methods, strategies, and techniques of intervention. Services to diverse populations.Developing issues and current trends. Shifting directions in social work practice, policy, and theory. Service models, techniques, and strategies of intervention for diverse populations. U.S. or international.
    Repeatable
  
  • SWK 712 - Clinical Social Work with Groups

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Experiential seminar explores frameworks for therapeutic intervention with formed groups. Focuses on students’ prior experience, aids in integration of new models and techniques into social work model for clinical work with groups. Requires concurrent work with short term group.
    PREREQ: SWK 601 
  
  • SWK 713 - Social Work Case Management Practice

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Micro, mezzo, and macro levels of system intervention for populations at risk. Emphasis on empowerment strategies.
    PREREQ: SWK 601 
  
  • SWK 714 - Supervision, Consultation and Staff Development

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Functions, methods, and techniques of supervision and consultation within an organizational context. Design, implementation, and evaluation of staff development programs. Emphasis on overcoming barriers to multicultural groups and enhancing staff morale, motivation, and effectiveness.
    PREREQ: SWK 602 
  
  • SWK 715 - Administration in Human Services

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Organizational and administrative theories and principles are applied to a range of human services. Administrative issues related to effective delivery of services include job design, resource procurement and allocation, strategic planning, and quality management.
    PREREQ: SWK 601 
  
  • SWK 724 - Psychopathology

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Crosslisted with: MFT 724 
    Stressful processes of living, focusing on individual attitudinal and behavioral responses that may be maladaptive. Traditional mental health theories and classifications, and relevant perspectives from sociology, social psychology, and biology.
  
  • SWK 727 - Family Violence: Policy, Practice and Research

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Examines family violence from a social work perspective. Integrated understanding of causation and intervention. Direct practice and policy issues. Role of research in the family violence field.
  
  • SWK 730 - Family Systems Theory

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Exploration of foundational and current couple and family therapy theories as they relate to functional and dysfunctional interactions, and to the practice of Social Work with individuals, families and groups.
    PREREQ: SWK 626 
    Repeatable
  
  • SWK 732 - Advanced Practice with Individuals, Families and Groups

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Application of systems thinking to advanced social work practice with individuals, families, and groups. Intervention with problems of aging, child welfare, health, mental health, and in the workplace.
    PREREQ: SWK 730 
    COREQ: SWK 771 
  
  • SWK 733 - Social Work Practice in Mental Health

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Advanced practice course in clinical social work concentration. Focuses on integration of knowledge in SW program, while including group therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and professional use-of-self perspective.
    PREREQ: SWK 730  AND SWK 732 
    COREQ: SWK 772 
  
  • SWK 735 - Principles and Methods of Social Work Practice with Black Families

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Principles and methods in working with black families. Practice interventions are examined within a cultural context. Attention will be given to the historical underpinnings that have molded the black experience in America.
    PREREQ: SWK 601 
  
  • SWK 736 - Evidence-Based Approaches to Mental Health Treatment

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Evidence-based practices within recovery-oriented paradigm for treating individuals with serious mental illness. Focus on assessment, treatment outcomes, and translating research into practice.
    PREREQ: SWK 601 
  
  • SWK 737 - Strategies for Community Behavioral Health Practice

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Skills related to engagement and motivational enhancement for social work practice with individuals within community-based settings. Models: recovery-oriented practices, person-centered planning, motivational interviewing, and classroom experience involves interaction with agency practitioners.
  
  • SWK 738 - Core Concepts in Trauma Treatment for Children and Adolescents

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Introduction of core concepts that inform evidence-based assessment and intervention with traumatized children and adolescents. Addresses the level of functioning of primary caregiving environments and assesses capacity of the community to facilitate restorative processes.
    PREREQ: SWK 601 
  
  • SWK 739 - Applied Neuroscience in the Human Services

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    The course explores key findings in neuroscience and consideration of implications for human service practitioners across disciplines and settings. Enables integration of scientific findings, related controversies, and ethical issuesinto approach to practice and policy.
  
  • SWK 740 - Treatment of Complex Trauma with Individuals

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Preparation for clinical practice with individuals who have experienced complex trauma. Current interventions for trauma treatment and factors involved in appropriate treatment selection are addressed.
  
  • SWK 742 - Violence, Bullying, & Trauma: Clinical Perspectives

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Analysis of violence, bullying, harassment, hazing, and traumatic effects that result. A systems theory perspective is applied to organizations and to families. Evidence-based approaches for intervention and remediation are discussed.
  
  • SWK 761 - Mental Health Policy

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Policies, programs in mental health and developmental disabilities fields. Deinstitutionalization, community-based services. Special mental health issues related to poverty, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation. Policy analysis.
    PREREQ: SWK 611 
  
  • SWK 763 - Health Care Policy

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Present organization of health care services, development of government legislation, and regulation. Organization and growth of public and private services and their impact on special populations.
    PREREQ: SWK 611 
  
  • SWK 765 - Public Policy and Aging

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Identify social policy formulations relevant to the changing lifestyle of the elderly. Implications of such policies for the social institutions and delivery systems serving elderly persons and their families.
    PREREQ: SWK 611 
  
  • SWK 766 - Seminar in International Social Welfare Policy and Social Work

    3 credit(s) Upon sufficient interest
    Cross-national comparisons.
    PREREQ: SWK 611 
  
  • SWK 768 - Family & Child Welfare Policy

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Examines policies, programs affecting three groups of families and children: supportive services for all, target services for those at risk, and intensive interventions to protect children with acute problems. Measurement and political dimensions of policy making analysis.
    PREREQ: SWK 611 
  
  • SWK 771 - Field Instruction III

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Supervised practice experience in social agencies related to student’s concentration choice. No credit will be given for only one semester of field work.
  
  • SWK 772 - Field Instruction IV

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Supervised practice experience in social agencies related to student’s concentration choice. No credit will be given for only one semester of field work.
    PREREQ: SWK 771 
  
  • SWK 774 - Proposal Writing and Program Development

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Planning, development, and funding of social service programs in both private nonprofit and public settings.
  
  • SWK 775 - Program Evaluation

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Evaluation of human service programs reflected in students’ field placements. Evaluability assessment. Program description. Posing evaluation questions. Quantitative and qualitative methods of needs assessment, information management, process evaluation, outcome evaluation, cost analysis, reporting results.
    PREREQ: SWK 662 
    COREQ: SWK 771  OR SWK 772 
  
  • SWK 776 - Clinical Practice Evaluation

    3 credit(s) Every semester
    Evaluation of clinical practice reflected in students’ field placements. Principles of measurement. Single system design. Critical thinking in clinical decision making. Quantitative and qualitative methods of systematic self-evaluation, instrument design, data analysis.
    PREREQ: SWK 662 
    COREQ: SWK 771  OR SWK 772 
  
  • SWK 777 - Community Organization and Development

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Theoretical orientations and skills required for social work practice of community economic development in urban and rural settings.
    PREREQ: SWK 602 
  
  • SWK 778 - Policy Practice and Advocacy

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Social policy analysis, planning and advocacy knowledge, methods and skills applied to social reform and social change in health and welfare arenas.
    PREREQ: SWK 611 
  
  • SWK 779 - Seminar in Organizational Development and Leadership

    3 credit(s) At least 1x fall or spring
    Theories, research, and practice models of organizational development and leadership. How organizations function and personal exploration of the self as change agent. Skills of analysis and synthesis for organizational change in public and nonprofit settings.
    PREREQ: SWK 771 
 

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