While emphasizing the critical analyses of social policies and policy making processes, this course critically examines the history of the social welfare system, services, and programs. An important focus of this course is to identify and understand the impact of a wide range of social policies on social work clients and human service delivery systems within a social justice framework.

This social work practice course explores theories and practice approaches appropriate for work with organizations and community systems. Recognizing the structural determinants of individual and family wellbeing, the course focuses on a strengths-based approach to engaging, assessing, and planning evidence-based interventions for clients at the macro level. Students will explore community practice models that aim to: empower marginalized populations, build human capacity, advocate for just policy, and create sustainable political, economic, environmental, and social justice.

Students in this course engage in a generalist social work field placement under the direction of a faculty field professor and an agency field instructor. Through field education seminars students integrate knowledge, skills, and behaviors from prerequisite and concurrent courses, to demonstrate foundation social work practice with individuals, families, small groups, organizations and communities. The focus includes attention to context, policy, ethical considerations, the application of theory, and the use of research-informed interventions.

Students in this course engage in a generalist social work field placement under the direction of a faculty field professor and an agency field instructor. Through field education seminars students integrate knowledge, skills, and behaviors from prerequisite and concurrent courses, to demonstrate foundation social work practice with individuals, families, small groups, organizations and communities. The focus includes attention to context, policy, ethical considerations, the application of theory, and the use of research-informed interventions.

Students in this course engage in a generalist social work field placement under the direction of a faculty practicum professor and an agency field instructor. Through field education seminars, students integrate knowledge, skills, and behaviors from prerequisite courses to demonstrate foundation social work practice with individuals, families, small groups, organizations and communities. The focus includes attention to policy, ethical considerations, the application of theory, and the use of research-informed interventions.

Students in this course engage in a generalist social work field placement under the direction of a faculty practicum professor and an agency field instructor. Through field education seminars, students integrate knowledge, skills, and behaviors from prerequisite courses to demonstrate foundation social work practice with individuals, families, small groups, organizations and communities. The focus includes attention to policy, ethical considerations, the application of theory, and the use of research-informed interventions.

Introduction to systematic approaches to scientific thinking necessary for building knowledge and evaluating one's own practice. Includes ethical use of scientific inquiry, critical appreciation of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, and use of research for program evaluation.

This course is designed to enhance students' clinical judgment and decision making with populations at high risk for victimization or perpetration of violence and substance misuse. It provides contemporary scientific and clinical knowledge and explores the associations of violence, child abuse, and mental disorders with substance misuse. Theories of addiction are explored with attention genetic, familial, gender, geographical, and cultural contributions. Neurochemical and neuroanatomical correlates of addiction are explored.

This course offers a survey of the major mental disorders typically encountered by social workers in clinical practice and other areas of practice such as protective services, family services, and court-related service areas. It is designed to increase the social worker's familiarity with diagnostic classifications, criteria, etiologies, and the epidemiology of disorders and social work treatment for disorders.

This course offers a survey of the major mental disorders typically encountered by social workers in clinical practice and other areas of practice such as protective services, family services, and court-related service areas. It is designed to increase the social worker's familiarity with diagnostic classifications, criteria, etiologies, and the epidemiology of disorders and social work treatment for disorders.