SWK 200 – INTRODUCTION TO HELPING PROFESSIONS
Students will learn the nature and practice of social work and related helping professions and their relevance to today’s social issues and concerns. Students develop beginning skills in interpersonal communication, utilizing self-awareness and problem solving techniques in understanding and helping others. Course includes weekly seminar and community service in a community agency or school (minimum of 30 hours). Course is required in the sophomore year for Social Work majors (3 credits).

PREREQUISITE REQUIREMENTS
There are no prerequisite requirements for this course.

SWK 320 – HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT I
The Social Work profession views the individual as a holistic being whose behavior and personality reflect development through the life cycle. This course focuses on the development of individuals in interaction with environment. Human Behavior and the Social Environment I builds upon basic concepts of the social, behavioral, and biological sciences and enables students to gain knowledge of people as individuals and in interaction with systems.

PREREQUISITE REQUIREMENTS
Open to social work majors only.


SWK 321 – HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT II
This course will focus on the reciprocal influences between human behavior/development and social systems (families, groups, organizations, and communities). Students will learn theories that describe how social systems operate, as well as how these interactions support and/or inhibit development. Attention will be paid to the differential access to power and resources by members of various groups; particularly how social structures participate in perpetuating inequality. Finally, the course will focus on the role of social and economic justice.

PREREQUISITE REQUIREMENTS
SWK 320 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment I.

SWK 330 – SOCIAL WELFARE INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES I
Theoretical and philosophical foundations of the social work profession focusing on the social, cultural, political, economic, and historical factors of social welfare services in the United States. The community survey method is used in applying these concepts.

PREREQUISITE REQUIREMENTS
Social work majors only.

SWK 350 – SOCIAL WORK RESEARCH METHODS
This course in research methods prepares students to use empirically based knowledge and to evaluate their own practice. This course teaches students to develop qualitative and quantitative research designs that examine need, monitor interventions and assess outcomes in generalist practice. Students learn how to evaluate existing empirical literature that pertains to specific practice topics for populations at risk and aspects of human diversity. Ethical issues germane to social work research are stressed throughout the course.

PREREQUISITE REQUIREMENTS
Open to social work majors only.

SWK 376 – METHODS OF INTERVENTION I
SWK 376 will introduce the student to the generalist perspective of social work and to the life model approach to understanding the interactions of the client systems with larger systems. The course will familiarize the student with the core helping skills, with the process of assessment, treatment planning, intervention, and termination. The generalist approach will provide the student with the framework for working with a diverse group of clients and with a variety of life situations.

PREREQUISITE REQUIREMENTS
The student must have successfully completed SWK 200 (Introduction to the Helping Professions) and have taken at least one course in General Psychology and General Sociology. This course is taken concurrently with the SWK 320 course.


SWK 377 – METHODS OF INTERVENTION II
Groups processes and structures; generic method applied to groups as client, target and action systems; professional teamwork; phases of group development and worker roles, tasks and direct/indirect interventions.

PREREQUISITE REQUIREMENTS
Open to social work majors only.

SWK 378 – METHODS OF INTERVENTION III
This course consists of the study, analysis and practice of methodologies underlying generalist social work practice, focusing on the organization and community as targets of intervention. Emphasis is on the development of beginning competence in interventive methods with formal/ informal organizations and communities.

This course is one of three practice courses required in the core undergraduate social work program and must be taken concurrently with two other courses: SWK 321 and SWK 390 (Micro Skills Practicum). The generalist practitioner intervenes with multiple systems. Intervention at the organizational and community level requires the performance of tasks and activities related to the roles of organizer, administrator, planner, and policy developer and analyst. These roles necessitate a command of theoretical knowledge, analytical/transactional skills, and values and ethics germane to macro social work practice. Consideration of the agency staff, service consumer or community members' race, gender, age, religious background must be understood.

PREREQUISITE REQUIREMENTS
Open to social work majors only.


SWK 390 – INTERVIEWING SKILLS IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
SWK 390 follows content on generalist competencies introduced in SWK 376. The course provides content on the communication skills used in the professional helping process. This course focuses on the deliberate selection and application of interpersonal skills for relationship building, assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation, and termination. Students practice and evaluate their skills using specific client/worker situations (including various populations at risk and various aspects of human diversity) in order to develop a beginning competency level.

PREREQUISITE REQUIREMENTS
Open to social work majors only.


SWK 430 – SOCIAL WELFARE INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES II
This course builds on the introductory course in social welfare institutions and policies. The course content provides students with a philosophical and analytical perspective through which contemporary social welfare services and policies can be examined, critically analyzed and influenced. It teaches skills needed to influence state social welfare policy.

PREREQUISITE REQUIREMENTS
SWK 330 – Social Welfare Institutions and Policies I.

SWK 490 – FIELD PRACTICE: SEMINAR II
SWK 490 content focuses on the engagement, assessment, and planning activities of the helping process. Knowledge and skills developed in SWK 376, 377, 378, and 390L are now applied in a practice setting and further integrated in the field seminar. In competency papers addressing these topics, students are asked to use empirically supported theoretical frameworks as well as professional and personal experience as they apply theory and skills to practice situations. Practice settings address the needs of populations at risk and serve a diverse range of populations.

PREREQUISITE REQUIREMENTS
Open to social work majors only.

SWK 491 – FIELD PRACTICE: SEMINAR III
SWK 491L content focuses on the intervention, evaluation, and termination activities of the helping process. Knowledge and skills developed in SWK 376, 377, 378, 390L and 490L continue to be applied in a practice setting and further integrated in the field seminar. In competency papers addressing these topics, students will be asked to draw upon theoretical concepts, research methods, professional and personal experience as they apply describe intervention, evaluation, and termination activities. Since completion of SWK 491L occurs at the culmination of completion of their social work program, attention will also be paid to ongoing evaluation of themselves as practitioners.

PREREQUISITE REQUIREMENTS
SWK 490 – Field Practice: Seminar II