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MSW 510: Social Work with Individuals, Families and Groups

This generalist course uses person-in-environment (PIE) and developmental approaches in guiding students through preparation, engagement, assessment, planning/contracting, implementation, evaluation, and termination/referral techniques and services...

MSW 521: Social Work Skills Lab I

This course focuses on knowledge and skills development with individual and family clients. Using the frameworks of diversity, cultural humility, and ethics as well as systems, biopsychosocial, and foundational theory students will focus on fluency...

MSW 522: Social Work Skills Lab II

This course expands upon the skills acquired in Skills Lab I with a focus on individuals, families, groups, and communities. Using primary models of practice and theory, students will focus on their competency in engagement, assessment, intervention...

MSW 530: Social Work Research & Evaluation

It is impossible to be an ethical social work practitioner without knowing if our interventions, programs or policies are effective. Research is the tool by which we build a base of evidence to support our interventions; hence, research is an...

MSW 540: Social Work with Communities and Organizations

This generalist course prepares students for direct social work practice with organizations and communities. Students become familiar with and use theories, evidence, and fundamental skills to develop competence in their practice with organizations...

MSW 550: Human Rights and Social Justice

This course will examine systems of oppression with focus on statuses including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability, and age, and the manner in which intersectionality can affect privilege and marginalization. Further, the Universal...

MSW 580: Social Welfare Policy I

This first social policy course views social welfare policy as the framework from which social work services are developed and delivered; that is, policies provide the context for practice. Students will examine policy practice as a process with...

MSW 621: Clinical Assessment & Diagnosis I

This advanced course focuses on mental disorders and/or dysfunction for various age groups across the life span. Through a bio-psychosocial perspective and incorporating contexts of culture, human resilience, and strengths-based approaches, the...

MSW 622: Clinical Assessment & Diagnosis II

This advanced course builds on Clinical Assessment I with a focus on mental disorders and/or dysfunction for various age groups across the life span. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) system continues as...

MSW 630: Advanced Methods: Program Evaluation

This course introduces students to program evaluation in social work. Building on research and evaluation techniques covered in generalist training, this course expands student research fluency by preparing students to design, conduct, and evaluate...