and modify human behavior within the individual and their environment; skills for utilizing those forces; and planned change to address client problems. Fulfills the critical thinking core course requirement. Prerequisite: SWK 341, SWK 342, BIO 102, PSY 201 and PSY 250. (3 s.h.)
faculty. To be eligible, students must have a grade point average of 3.3 or greater in social work courses, as well as an overall grade point average of 3.0 or greater. Students will be asked to demonstrate the capacity to produce independent, scholarly, or artistic work of the highest measure with accountability in the form SWK 363 Social Work Practice: Small of a comprehensive written exam and a Groups professional paper presented to program This course is the first of a three-course faculty and defended by the student. (3-4 practice sequence (micro, mezzo, and s.h.) macro). The focus is on generalist social work practice with small groups and SWK 410 Death and Dying: families referred to as mezzo practice. Interdisciplinary Palliative Care This course will provide an examination Seminar of the commonalities of knowledge and The purpose of this course is to increase skills needed to work effectively with a students understanding of the concept range of groups while exploring social of death and dying through exploration work values and their ethical implications of death and dying in a five week to practice. The generalist perspective Interdisciplinary Seminar, video and emphasizes practice with systems of all literature review. This course is constructed sizes. This course focuses on becoming to stimulate student learning and critical aware of self in group, group in context, thinking and to think about and possibly and the implications of both for choosing accept the inevitability of death and its interventions in groups. Prerequistes SWK causes. Some specific topics to be covered 130, SWK 341, and SWK 342. (3 s.h.) include: attitudes towards death; living with a terminal illness; end-of-life care; SWK 364 Social Work Practice: hospice; cultural sensitivity; ethical and Organizations and Communities legal issues; pain management; grief and This course is designed to provide mourning. It also explores students own basic social work knowledge and skills perceptions and beliefs about death and needed for macro practice—working dying. In addition to course content, this with organizations and communities. class will aim to allow students to improve Coursework will examine the relationships their written, oral and critical thinking skills. between national policies, community The goals of the Interdisciplinary Palliative needs, and organizational programs. Skills Care (IPC) Seminar are to strengthen will be taught including needs assessment, health care professionals; responsiveness strategic planning, grant writing, program to palliative care issues and the dying design, people management, change process, foster appreciation of the management and program evaluation. interdisciplinary approach to palliative care This course will focus on social work ethics and highlight ways to enhance quality of and values of social justice and client self- life at the end of life (EOL) for patients and determination by empowering people their families. Five intensive educational through community organizing and sessions address knowledge, attitudes responsive program design. Prerequiste: and skill development in palliative care SWK 342. (3 s.h.) among students in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, social work and chaplaincy. SWK 390 Special Topics in Social Work Sessions combine readings and didactic This is a series of courses on timely subjects education with experiential learning in of interest to departmental majors or other interdisciplinary terms in the homes of students. (3-6 s.h.) people at end of life. Interdisciplinary small group discussions encourage dialog and SWK 398 Honors in Social Work Interested students should apply to self reflection on palliative/EOL issues. (3 complete the honors project through the s.h.) Director of the Social Work Program no SWK 430 Field Instruction later than one academic year prior to their Field instruction is the capstone of the expected date of graduation. Students may USF Social Work Program—the final and enter this program by the invitation of most critical component. Field is a required the social work faculty or by application course for all social work majors. Field is to and acceptance by the social work
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where all the elements of the program curriculum are tested, applied and integrated Field is where theory intersects with practice. Social work practice requires the integration of knowledge, values and skills applied in diverse settings. Social work education includes scholarship and pedagogy to support learning theory, laboratory and experiential exercises to learn skills, case studies to improve skills and define values and concludes with field to integrate all of the above with practice. It provides students a "hands on" opportunity to explore what is within their circle of knowledge, to sharpen their awareness of what they don't know, to supportively encounter ethical and values dilemmas, evaluate their practice and to plan for continued professional growth. Prerequisites: students enrolling in SWK 430 must have completed all other required social work courses for the major. (12 s.h.) SWK 491 Independent Study in Social Work Individual study, research or group projects under supervision of social work faculty. Prerequisite: Instructor approval. (1-4 s.h.)
Sociology (SOC) SOC 201 Fundamentals of Sociology Analysis of humanity, society, and culture from the perspective of the fundamental concepts and methods of sociology, including such topics as the nature of culture, the social origins of personality, social institutions, social interaction, communities and social change. (3 s.h.) SOC 202 Social Problems An analysis of a number of major U.S. social problems such as poverty, discrimination, crime and delinquency and health and medical care with a primary focus on the possibility of solving these problems through individual and collective action. (3 s.h.) SOC 230 Native American Studies A study of the backgrounds and ways of life of the Native American peoples. Includes an introduction to the history and cultures of American Indians. Fulfills the intercultural awareness core requirement. (3 s.h.) SOC 233 Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences Introduction to statistical reasoning and the application of descriptive and inferential statistics to social and behavioral research.
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