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Course Descriptions Undergraduate Required All Social Work majors must complete the following required courses: CUSW 200. Introduction to Social Work This is the first course for students expressing an interest in the field of social work. The course selectively traces the development of social work from early volunteer efforts to present organizations in social welfare. The emergence, development and changing nature of social needs and services are selectively analyzed. The course also introduces students to the development of social work practice as a profession and to the various fields of social work practice and career opportunities. (Fall, 3 credits) CUSW 202. Introduction to Professional Helping CUSW 202 is a study in self-assessment, including values clarification, problem solving, and interviewing skills for career choices in social services. The course includes a directed field observation experience of at least fifty (50) clock hours, during which students work in an agency, community, or other social service environments using a generalist framework. (Spring, 3 credits) CUSW 300. Social Welfare Policy and Services This course is designed to familiarize students with policy formation and policies related to social welfare legislation and corresponding organizational structures, programs, services, and clients. The course also explores and analyzes selected historical and current perspectives in the development of social needs and societal responses for increased understanding of present needs, services, and issues. (Fall, 3 credits) CUSW 360. Interpersonal Skills Laboratory The objective of this course is to enhance basic social work skills such as interviewing, problem solving, time management, technical writing, group processing, and empathic understanding. This course is also designed to assist students in developing communication and problem solving skills with communities and organizations, identifying community resources, and conducting organizational analysis. Prerequisite: CUSW 200, 202, 300 (Spring, 3 credits) CUSW 401. Human Behavior I This course is designed to provide social work students with knowledge of human behavior and development over the life span. Emphasis is placed on the individual, their membership in families, groups, organizations and communities. Students will explore social, psychological, biological, cultural and societal factors affecting human growth and development with special emphasis on the various stages of development. Prerequisites: CUSW 200, 202, 300 and 360; Corequisite: CUSW 403, 405,405S (Fall, 3 credits) CUSW 402. Human Behavior II This course is the second course in the human behavior and social environment sequence. It extends the breadth and depth of knowledge and values introduced in Human Behavior I, emphasizing behaviors of significance to professionals in human service organizations. The course is designed to help students develop a useful framework within which to explore, analyze, process and synthesize a range of behavioral constructs and contemporary social problems referenced and supported by findings in the literature. Prerequisite: CUSW 401; Corequisite: CUSW 404, 406,406S (Spring, 3 credits) CUSW 403. Practice Competencies I The purpose of this course is to pursue and obtain a synthesis of knowledge, values, and skills, for its integration into appropriate and effective helping strategies for professional practice with individuals, families, groups, and communities. Prerequisites: CUSW 200, 202, 300, 360 or permission of instructor; Corequisite: CUSW 401, 405, 405S (Fall, 3 credits) CUSW 404. Practice Competencies II CUSW 404 is a continuation of CUSW 403. This course is designed to provide students with skills in supervision, consultation, and autonomous work habits. The course also requires greater involvement with other professionals on behalf of individuals, groups, families, communities and agencies. Emphasis is on teamwork in agencies and organizations; techniques for interpreting and applying organizational policies and mandates. Prerequisite: CUSW 403; Corequisite: CUSW 402, 406, 406S (Spring, 3 credits) CUSW 405. Field Instruction I This course is an educationally directed practicum in a social service setting. A "generalist" teaching/learning framework is utilized to ensure that students have direct engagement with values clarification, agency structures, policies, clientele, and variously related individuals, groups, families, communities, and organizations. Students are required to complete two hundred and fifty (250) clock hours while concurrently enrolled in CUSW 401 (Human Behavior I), CUSW 403 (Practice Competencies I), and CUSW 405S Field Seminar I. Prerequisite: CUSW 200, 202, 300, 360 (Fall, 6 credits) CUSW 405S. Field Seminar I Field Seminar I consists of lectures and discussions designed to integrate and synthesize theory and practice. Field Seminar I is also designed to facilitate student's acculturation to the social work profession by providing opportunities for students to assimilate their experiences and to develop a realistic balance between the theoretical concepts discussed in the classroom and the real world of providing social services to clients. Prerequisite: CUSW 200, 202, 300, 360; Corequisite: CUSW 401, 403, 405 (Fall, 0 credit) CUSW 406. Field Instruction II CUSW406 is a continuation of CUSW 405. This course emphasizes evaluation, planning, assessment, research, and the relationship of these activities to improved social services delivery. Students are required to complete two hundred and fifty (250) clock hours while concurrently enrolled in CUSW 402 (Human Behavior II), CUSW 404 (Practice Competencies II), and CUSW 406S Field Seminar II. Prerequisite: CUSW 200, 202, 300, 360 (Spring, 6 credits) CUSW 406S. Field Seminar II Field Seminar consists of lectures and discussions designed to integrate and synthesize theory of social service administration with practice. Field Seminar II is also designed to facilitate students' acculturation to the social work profession by providing opportunities for students to assimilate their experiences and to develop a realistic balance between the theoretical concepts discussed in the classroom and the real world of providing social services to clients. Prerequisite: CUSW 405S; Corequisite: CUSW 402, 404, 406 (Spring, 0 credit) ELECTIVE COURSES Social Work majors choose two electives for pursuing various and/or emerging interests. The following electives are offered. (Not all electives are offered each semester.) CUSW 350. Child Welfare Services and Policies This course reviews the development of child welfare practice through history of various supplementary, supportive, and substitute services. The course also reviews the cultural and political context within which services are delivered and considers alternatives that are more effective in dealing with problems of children and youth. (3 credits) CUSW 411. Social Work and Social Philosophy This course is designed to introduce students to selected philosophical, ethical, and value frameworks presented in social work practice (casework, group work, research, administration, and community organization). Principles of decision making are discussed in conjunction with the application of philosophical theories. (3 credits) CUSW 412. Mental Health Issues of Diverse Groups and Women The objective of this course is to relate the need for mental health services to the provision of these services for diverse group members based on their (1) demographic characteristics; (2) problems; (3) treatment needs, etc. Students are expected to become particularly knowledgeable about mental health needs, and services available to meet the needs of diverse groups. The diverse groups addressed in this course include African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, physically challenged, migrant workers, women, and the elderly. The life situations that affect the behavior of these particular populations are examined from an ecosystems perspective in an effort to understand the mental health problems that emerge. (3 credits) CUSW 413. Intervention Strategies with Families and Children This course reviews theories and models of intervention with children and families. The focus is on the specialized assessment and treatment skills necessary for effective intervention with this client population. (3 credits) CUSW 415. Issues in Child Welfare: Abuse, Neglect and Investigation This course focuses on issues encountered as a social worker investigating and managing child welfare issues specifically child abuse and neglect cases. The primary emphasis is on how to investigate allegations that a child has been abused and/or neglected. Procedures and techniques that should be utilized after conducting an investigation are discussed. Upon completion of this course, students should understand the various components of child abuse and neglect investigation and have knowledge of how to begin case management in child protective services. (3 credits) CUSW 416. Social Work Practice with the Aged This course is designed to assist students in developing competence in the delivery of services in an interdisciplinary organizational environment which serves elderly populations. Students will explore the nature of social work practices with the elderly in a variety of services; utilization of the problem solving process; and skills required for interdisciplinary collaboration and intervention. (3 credits) M.S.W. Course Descriptions CSSW500A. Autonomous Social Work Practice I This is the first semester practice course for all first year MSW students. The core concepts of generalist social work practice with communities, organizations, families, groups and individuals are presented. The course teaches social work ethics and values, principles and skills used to assist communities, organizations, families, groups and individuals in achieving personal and social change for enhanced social functioning. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW501A. Field Practicum I Field Practicum I provides students with a supervised field experience in an agency setting using generalist social work skills. Students apply foundation knowledge, skills, values and ethics to practice. The practicum focuses on skill development, the nature of social systems, and the integration of social work theory and practice. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW585. Research Methods I (Web Enhanced) This is an introductory course on applied research methods at the graduate level. The course is a comprehensive overview of the methods used to evaluate the efficacy of individual-level, group-level, and program-level social service interventions. The topics include sampling, measurement, design and procedures as they relate to single systems design, program evaluation, and basic research. Issues of reliability and validity provide the framework through which empirical research and original studies are critiqued. The major methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative, are considered. The implications of research in social work are explored as they impact issues of human behavior, policy and practice. Prerequisites: None (3 semester credit hours) CSSW600A. Human Behavior and the Social Environment I This foundation course focuses on oppression, poverty, various types of racism and inequalities, how these forces have been institutionalized in our society, how they impact diverse communities, organizations, groups, and shape the behaviors and development of children and adolescents. The Afrocentric perspective and humanistic paradigm will be the lens through which these issues will be addressed. Content will focus on processes of oppression, cultural pluralism, biculturalism, integration, acculturation and assimilation. The theories discussed will correspond and provide support to the first semester practice course - CSSW500A - Autonomous Social Work Practice I. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW700. Social Welfare Policy and Services This course is designed to assist students in acquiring knowledge of the history of America's response to the needs of the poor and oppressed, including legislative policies and the development and role of the social work profession. Special attention is focused on general social problems, children, family and health issues, program services and structures, and beginning skills for analyzing social welfare issues. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW500 B. Autonomous Social Work Practice II This course builds upon and expands concepts of generalist social work practice with communities, organizations, groups, families and individuals. Special attention is paid to a more in-depth understanding of work with diverse groups, families, and individuals and how organizations and communities impact these diverse client groups. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW500C. Clinical Practice with Children, Adolescents, Adults, Families (Advanced Standing Students Only) This is the first practice course for Advanced Standing Students. The course makes the assumption that these students enter the graduate program with competencies in the requisite knowledge, values and skills from a generalist social work perspective. It is expected that such competencies will enable the students to transition into advanced practice content areas. The course builds upon and extends social work practice models, methods, and processes for work with children, adolescents, adults, and families in different settings who present with a range of problems Attention is given to models of assessment and interventions with each of these client systems. The concept of social functioning is used to inform problem identification, assessment and intervention. Students enrolled in this course will prepare to select a specialization area in health/mental health or child and family. Students who select the child and family specialization can also select school social work as a subspecialty. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW501B. Field Practicum II Field Practicum II is a continuation of CSSW501A. The practicum experience focuses on skill development, the reciprocal nature of social systems, application of ethics to practice and the integration and application of social work theory to practice. Prerequisite: CSSW 501A Field Practicum I and CSSW500A Autonomous Social Work Practice I (3 semester credit hours) CSSW600B. Human Behavior and the Social Environment II This course continues to expand understanding of individual growth and development over the life cycle begun in CSSW600A. It focuses on young and middle adulthood, families, later adulthood and aging with special attention to biological, cognitive, social, psychological and spiritual issues. Attention is paid to how communities, organizations, groups, poverty, oppression, discrimination and racism impact development. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW600C. Human Behavior and the Social Environment III (For Advanced Standing Students only) This is the first Human Behavior and the Social Environment course for Advanced Standing Students. The course reviews content on oppression, discrimination and poverty along with other factors as they affect communities, organizations, groups. Students will then integrate their understanding of human development issues that affect individuals, families, groups as they interface with communities, organizations, groups. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW586. Research Methods II (Statistics - Web Enhanced) This course is an introduction to applied research statistics designed to develop skills in data analysis and statistical software computer usage for social work research and practice. The course focuses on: 1) computing and interpreting descriptive statistics, i.e., frequency distributions, graphic representations, measures of central tendency and dispersion; and 2) bivariate statistical procedures, such as chi-square, t-tests of group means, and One-way ANOVA. An applied research project is the primary vehicle by which students will demonstrate their mastery of course content. Prerequisite: CSSW585 Research Methods I (3 semester credit hours) CSSW587. Evaluation of Social Work Practice This course is an advanced application of evaluation of social work practice. The course assumes a basic knowledge and application of research methods and statistics. The curriculum emphasizes the logic of applying an intervention to bring about some desired treatment outcome. Students implement an empirical evaluation of either a single systems design or program evaluation in a social work setting. The findings of this research are used as the basis for proposing practice, policy or methodological changes. Finally, this course integrates the use of information technology (IT) as a tool to help students collect, manage and communicate information. Prerequisites: CSSW585 Research Methods I and CSSW586 Research Methods II (Course discontinued at close of AY 2002-2003) (2 semester credit hours) CSSW588. Advanced Research Methods (Advanced Standing Students) This course focuses on the application of research methods and statistics. The content assumes that the student has a basic understanding of research methods. There are two course objectives: 1) students will develop skills in conceptualizing, designing, conducting and writing for social work research and practice; and 2) students will develop skills in data analysis and statistical software computer usage. There are three broad areas covered in the course: 1) application of research methods; 2) computing and interpreting descriptive statistics, i.e., frequency distributions, graphic representations, measures of central tendency and dispersion; and 3) bivariate statistical procedures, such as chi square, t-tests of group means, and One-way ANOVA. An applied research project is the primary vehicle by which students demonstrate their mastery of course content. Prerequisite: Research Methods Course (3 semester credit hours) CSSW709. Differential Policy Analysis This course builds on CSSW700 and is designed to assist students in developing conceptual, analytical, and political skills necessary to improve existing social policies, defeat policy initiatives incongruent with social work values, or establish new policies. Each student selects a social welfare policy or policy issues in his or her area of specialization at the local, state, or federal level for analysis and advocacy action. Prerequisite: CSSW700 Social Welfare Policy and Services (3 semester credit hours) CSSW502A. Field Practicum III This practicum provides students with advanced practice experience to sharpen the translation of theoretical constructs that undergird the student's specialization. Critical knowledge regarding skills, values, and ethics is reinforced. Prerequisites: CSSW501A and 501B - Field Practicum I and II and CSSW500A and 500B - Autonomous Social Work Practice I and II (3 semester credit hours) CSSW601. Psychopathology This course covers the description, classification, evaluation and diagnosis of the adult psychiatric disorders described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). Additionally, personality developmental theories are drawn upon to further promote students' understanding of assessment and treatment interventions. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW598. Thesis/Conceptual Paper or CSSW598A Practice Based Research This four- semester credit hour course covers two semesters (2 semester credit hours per each semester). It is a formal, rigorous research study conducted as partial fulfillment of the master's degree under the direction of a faculty supervisor. (4 semester credit hours) CSSW503A. Social Work Practice with Children and Families This course is designed for students who have completed the first-year foundation courses and have selected the Child and Family Specialization. Building upon CSSW500A and CSSW500B, this course examines clinical assessment and interventions with children and their families. The course covers theoretical issues and practical techniques used in social work interventions with children and their families. Issues such as conducting an assessment, developing a treatment alliance, understanding family dynamics including resistance, worker's use of self, and termination will be explored. Work with parents and collaterals will be viewed as an integral part of clinical intervention with children. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW503B. Social Work Practice in Health/Mental Health Settings This course is designed for students who have completed the first-year foundation courses and have selected the Health/Mental Health Specialization. Building upon CSSW500A and CSSW500B, this course focuses on understanding the contextual framework of social work practice in health/mental health settings and the development of skills for practice in acute medical settings, public health agencies, mental health settings, and long-term care facilities. An effort is made to provide an understanding of the complexities inherent in the application and use of clinical interventions in different health care settings and systems of health care delivery. Value and ethical conflicts inherent in clinical practice in health care are considered, with special attention to issues related to women, minorities, at-risk populations, and the poor. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW502B. Field Practicum IV Field Practicum IV is a continuation of CSSW502A. It provides advanced clinical practice experience that undergirds the student's specialization. Prerequisites: CSSW501A, 501B, 502A - Field Practicum I, II, and III and CSSW500A and 500B - Autonomous Social Work Practice I and II (4 semester credit hours) CSSW801. Integrative Seminar This seminar is designed to complement the course work, integrate class and field, and explore relevant issues of practice, policy and research. The course is organized to create cross-fertilization among and between the two specialization areas and the subspecialty in school social work. Prerequisites: All first year foundation courses and all second- year, first semester courses (3 semester credit hours) Electives CSSW506. Program & Organizational Development for Clinical Practice This course provides students with advanced knowledge and understanding of organizational needs and identifies strategies and models for achieving these needs. Select organizational development models are examined to determine their applicability to social service agencies. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW508. Brief Interventive Methods This course examines the theory and practice of brief treatment methods including crisis intervention. It focuses on the basic phases of time-limited treatment and provides selection criteria, assessment procedures, goal setting, techniques of intervention, and termination approaches with individuals, families and small groups. Prerequisites: all foundation practice courses (3 semester credit hours) CSSW510. Aids: Psychosocial Issues and Intervention This course provides critical information on practice, prevention, education, intervention methods and models of care for working with people with HIV-AIDS. Additionally, the course focuses on the AIDS population as an at-risk group. Prejudice, legal, spiritual, ethical and other issues that confront social workers in clinical practice with AIDS persons are addressed. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW511. Intervention Strategies with Children and Adolescents This course provides advanced knowledge and specialized skills for practice with children and adolescents who experience developmental issues and a range of psychosocial problems and social injustices. It examines practice issues relevant to culturally diverse children and adolescents, especially African-American and Latino children and adolescents. The course emphasizes the importance of understanding resiliency and strengths in making assessments and interventions in various treatment settings: schools, child welfare agencies, and juvenile justice systems. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW512. Intervention Strategies with Adults and the Aged This course is designed to integrate the theories and practice skills for effective clinical work with the elderly and their families. Attention will be paid to the significance of the older person's history, various losses experienced including how to deal with grief and mourning, as well as understanding behaviors within their environmental context. The provision of concrete service delivery and case management as well as individual, family and small group treatment approaches will be addressed. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW513. Child Abuse and Neglect This is an elective practice course located in the Child and Family Specialization. It is concerned with the abuse and neglect of children within a family system and how these patterns are perpetuated. It examines societal injustices faced by children, particularly children of color, and explores strategies for addressing these injustices. Core objectives of the course are to: 1) explore research findings on the prevalence of factors that contribute to child abuse and neglect; 2) offer in-depth knowledge about the types and causes of child abuse; and 3) provide knowledge of and skills in investigation, assessment, case management, treatment approaches, prevention and methods of evaluation at the macro and micro levels. Prerequisites: First-year foundation courses (3 semester credit hours) CSSW514. Group Processes in Social Work Practice and Administration This course offers an overview of the use of groups in social work practice. The early sessions focus on understanding task groups. The balance of the course focuses on treatment groups and the role of the worker in planning and conducting group treatment sessions. Lectures, group demonstrations, role-playing, and film are among the classroom activities. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW517. Community Based Health Care This course provides, to a multidisciplinary student group, the opportunity to analyze health problems in a given community. Emphasis is placed on access and barriers to health services, the role and function of multidisciplinary teams, community needs assessment and interventions, and policy advocacy for change. Students work as teams in a select community. They engage in fact-finding activities that lead to a presentation of recommendations for improved community health to state and local legislators. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW518. Community Health Promotion and Disease Prevention This course builds on CSSW517 and provides the knowledge and skills needed to conduct a health promotion activity in an assigned community. Using the Proceed Steps of the Precede/Proceed Model of Health Promotion, students plan, develop, and implement an intervention to address a community health problem identified in CSSW517. Prerequisite: CSSW517 (3 semester credit hours) CSSW520. Family Therapy This is an advanced clinical social work practice course designed to increase students' knowledge and skills for intervening with families. This course engages students in: 1) exploring the development of family therapy and the dimensions of family treatment in social work practice; 2) using major models of family therapy for assessment and intervention; 3) identifying key family processes to include belief systems, individual family roles, and individual communication patterns and dynamics; and 4) identifying major research findings in family therapy. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW521. Supervision and Consultation in Clinical Practice This course provides concepts and principles of supervision and consultation. Attention is given to emerging trends and practices in supervision, staff development, personnel utilization and assessment. The course explores the history, roles, techniques and practices involved in the supervisory process. The course is designed for the experienced student, who desires and expects to become an agency supervisor within the next few years, and to assist practicing supervisors to develop additional competencies. Attention is given to issues of clinical supervision and licensure. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW522. Public Health Social Work Practice This course prepares social work students for advanced practice in the area of public health with a focus on disease prevention. Students are introduced to the historical development of public health practice, current public health issues, policies and procedures, research, assessment, and intervention strategies. Professional values and ethics are promoted as a foundation for helping students accept the differences in health behaviors related to ethnicity, gender, race, culture, socioeconomic status, at-risk status, and sexual orientation. Students are exposed to content on humanistic values, Afrocentric perspective, and autonomous social work practice matrix roles as they relate to public health in social work. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW603. African-American Families This course examines historical and contemporary forces impinging upon African-American families to include disadvantaged status, racism and poverty, and the resultant survival strategies of these families. The Afrocentric perspective in conjunction with ecological-social systems theories is used. Attention is given to historical, economic, cultural and psychological factors that impact African-American families. Strengths that exist in Black families are acknowledged to include: adaptability of family roles, strong kinship bonds, a strong work and achievement ethic, and strong religious orientation. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW606. Alcoholism and Drug Dependency This course examines psychosocial, cultural, physiological, political and economic roles that influence the use and abuse of alcohol and substances by diverse groups. Students are taught how to screen for alcohol and drug problems and how to evaluate the patterns, context, and consequences of alcohol and drug-taking behaviors. Students are introduced to 12-step programs, individual and family assessment and intervention, and skills training for alcohol and drug abusers. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW609. Emotional Disorders of Children and Adolescents This course is designed to explore a range of factors, situations, and experiences that contribute to the development and progression of emotional disorders in children and adolescents. In addition to formal diagnostic DSM-IV criteria and an understanding of developmental issues, a strengths approach, supported by both an Afrocentric and ecological perspective, is used. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW706. Law and Social Work This course is designed to provide students with a basic analysis of social work as it interfaces with the law. It is not designed to turn professional social workers into lawyers, but rather to make encounters with lawyers and the legal system less mysterious and more beneficial to the client population. At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to recognize how federal and state court systems operate, attain a level of confidence with respect to court testimony, understand the value of effective social work advocacy, develop cognizance of professional licensing and practice issues, and use basic legal terms and library resources. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW707. School Social Work This is an advanced policy/practice required core course for the school social work sub-specialty. The course examines the scope of school social work; analyzes the impact of federal and other policies on schools as educational and socialization systems; explores influences of diverse ethnic/racial and oppressed student/parent population groups on schools and school responses; and provides for increased differential clinical social work skills and roles, intervention models, interdisciplinary team work, and home-school-community approaches in school social work practice. Prerequisite: first year foundation courses. (3 semester credit hours) CSSW708. Health Issues for Women and Minorities This course will examine and explore many of the most important health issues faced by women and minorities to include drug, alcohol and nicotine addiction; cancer; eating disorders (anorexia, bulimia, obesity); bodily and self-injurers; incest; abortion; infertility; surrogate mothering; depression; AIDS; homelessness; and domestic violence. Focus is placed on how health care systems have responded to these issues. Current and future options for change at the micro and macro-levels are addressed. (3 semester credit hours) Independent Study CSSW800. Independent Study An independent study is a one semester individualized course that is arranged between an individual faculty member and a student on a specific topic of interest to the student and that meets academic and professional requirements of the MSW Program. Permission of both the Chair of the MSW Program and the instructor is required. (1, 2, or 3 semester credit hours) Ph.D. Course Descriptions CSSW 800. Independent Study An independent study is a one semester individualized course that is arranged between an individual faculty member and a student on a specific topic of interest to the student and that meets academic and professional requirements of the Ph.D. Program. Permission of both the Director of the Ph.D. Program and the instructor is required. (1, 2, or 3 credits) CSSW 900. Historical Analysis of Social Welfare and Professional Social Work Practice This course examines the growth of social welfare and social work as social institutions in American society. (3 credits) CSSW 901. Social Welfare and Professional Social Work Policy Planning and Development This course creates awareness of sequential policy development on several levels, as well as fosters understanding of administration procedures, techniques and interventions that may be employed in the implementation of policies and programs. (3 credits) CSSW 910. Descriptive and Inferential Statistics This course provides in-depth understanding of descriptive and inferential statistics that enables students to master the procedures of statistical analysis as used in the field of social work. (3 credits) CSSW 911. Evaluative Research and Multivariate Statistics CSSW911 provides a dual focus: the major focus is on the application of advanced research methods for the evaluation of human service programs; the secondary focus is on use of multivariate statistics and microcomputers in evaluation and planning. (3 credits) CSSW 912. Research Methodology in Social Work Planning and Administration This course covers aspects of research methodology for social work policy planning and administration, including problem formulation, conceptual and operational definitions of variables, theory and literature selection, design, data analysis and data presentation; emphasis is placed on experimental and quasi-experimental designs and research for administration and computer applications in the analysis and presentation of data. (3 credits) CSSW 913. Doctoral Seminar I CSSW913 analyzes current issues in the field of social work administration, planning and research; a framework for analyzing new developments, trends and projections in the field is provided through the use of selected topics. (3 credits) CSSW 914. Doctoral Seminar II This course is open to students who have completed core requirements and have selected a defined area for dissertation research. The course is a continuation of CSSW913 and promotes the development of individual research projects using critical feedback from students and faculty. (3 credits) CSSW 920. Organizational Development This course prepares students to understand and work effectively in existing and newly designed organizations. Students examine competing organizational designs and new and traditional organizational forms and structures. Recognizing that organizations are organic, living systems, the roles, competencies and interpersonal skills required of managers and leaders who seek to develop more effective and efficient human service organizations are explored in-depth. (3 credits) CSSW 921. Planned Changed in Complex Organizations This course examines: 1) language of complex organizations; 2) organization theory (theory of bureaucracies); 3) knowledge and data on recent studies of complex organizations and suggests implications for social change and social policy regarding complex organizations in the area of human service delivery with special attention paid to organizations serving persons of color. (3 credits) CSSW 930. Critique and Analysis of Managerial Theories This course provides a critique and analysis of various administrative and managerial theories, principles and concepts. It establishes a framework for assessing the potential applicability of selected managerial theories in human service agencies. (3 credits) CSSW 931. Administration in Human Service Organizations This course analyzes various administrative models and organizational settings in which they are applied. It stresses the utilization of cutting-edge managerial models and the development of new models for improving managerial effectiveness and organizational efficiency in human service agencies. (3 credits) |
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