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SW 300, U.S. Social Welfare I: Past, Present and Future (3 units)
Prerequisite: Junior standing.
The welfare institution viewed as a societal response to certain social needs.
Examination of needs and responses within a time change perspective. Analysis
of the social work profession and its involvement in the delivery of welfare
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SW 301, U.S. Social Welfare II: Problems, Policies,
and Programs (3 units)
Prerequisite: SW 300 or consent of instructor.
Certain social problems are selected for intensive study in relation to
policies and programs that determine available services. Attention is given to
the adequacy of such policies and programs and the input of government,
voluntary associations, and consumer groups. |
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SW 302, Introduction to Social Service Organizations
(3 Units)
Prerequisite: Junior standing.
This course has two major components: Weekly visits to different social work
agencies and a weekly integrating seminar. The course is designed to orient
students to the nature of social service agencies and problems of service
delivery. |
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SW 350 Child Welfare (3 units)
Prerequisite: SW 300 or consent of instructor.
Child welfare as a specialized field of social welfare. Services to children in
their own homes as well as outside will be explored. Critical attention is
given to service delivery systems and to the child welfare worker's job. |
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SW 352 Gender, Sexism and Social Welfare (3 units)
Prerequisite: Junior standing.
Critical examination of sex role stereo-typing in the policies, practices, and
organization of selected social welfare institutions and organizations and in
the practice of social workers and other human service professionals. |
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SW 400 Social Work Practice I (3 units)
Prerequisite: Concurrent enrollment in SW 300.
Seminar on the value dimensions of practice, the systems with which the
practitioner must deal and the changing nature of the practitioner's
relationships with each of these systems. A generalist model of social work
practice with individuals. |
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SW 401 Social Work Practice II (3 units)
Prerequisite: Completion of SW 400 with a C grade or better.
Continued examination of factors influencing professional practice with special
attention to such tasks as forming, maintaining and coordinating action
systems, differential ways of influencing action systems in various phases of
the change process and terminating change efforts. Emphasis in this course is
on social work practice with groups. |
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SW 402 Interviewing Skills in Social Work (3 units)
Prerequisite: Junior standing
This course emphasizes interviewing techniques that cut across all practice
methods. |
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SW 410 Human Development and the Social Services (3
units)
Prerequisite: Completion of junior year curriculum consent of
instructor.
The scientific method and its application to social work; the practitioner as
consumer of and contributor to social research; an overview of research
methodology. Selected research studies are analyzed for their methodology and
contributions to social work knowledge. |
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SW 456 Urban Community Organizing and Citizen Action
(3 units)
Prerequisite: Senior standing
History and current developments in community organization in the city. Topics
include principles and strategies of developing citizen action organizations,
the role of community organizing and citizen participation in urban social
programs. (Also offered as URBS 456.) |
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SW 470 Social Differences and Social Work Practice (3
units)
Prerequisite:Junior standing
This course focuses on differences of ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation
and disability and their relationship to social work practice. |
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SW 502 Seminar on Field
Experience I (2 units)
Prerequisites:Completion of junior year curriculum and concurrent
enrollment in SW 503.
Evaluative seminar to enable students to analyze their field experiences
utilizing social work theories, practice principles and social work values. |
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SW 503 Field Experience in Social Services (2 units)
Prerequisites: Completion of SW 300, 301, 302, 400, 401 and 402 with a
"C" grade or better and consent of Field Director. Must have concurrent
enrollment in SW 502.
Field experience in a community/social agency. |
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SW 504 Seminar on Field Experience II (2 units)
Prerequisites: Completion of SW 502 with a "C" grade or better and
satisfactory (CR) completion of SW 503 concurrent enrollment in SW 503.
Evaluative seminar to enable students to analyze their field experiences. Must
be taken concurrently with SW 505. |
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SW 505 Field Experience in Social Services II (2
units)
Prerequisites: Completion of SW 502 with a "C" grade or better &
satisfactory (CR) completion of SW 503.
Field experience in a community/social agency. Must be taken concurrently with
SW 504. |
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SW 660 Non-Profit Organizations (3 units)
Prerequisite: Senior standing.
Also offered as URBS 660. |
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SW 699 Special Study (1-3 units)
An intensive study of a particular problem in social work or social welfare
under the direction of the social work faculty. Open only to students who have
demonstrated ability to do independent work. Enrollment by petition. A maximum
of 6 units towards the BA degree may completed through Special Study. |
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