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SW 20 - Community Engagement (independent study)
(0 cr; Prereq-MSW student, academic faculty adviser consent; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated 15 times)
Students volunteer in clinic/agency predetermined by the School of Social Work. Registration for course is officially documented on transcript.
SW 1501 - Introduction to Peace Studies [GP]
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Interdisciplinary field that considers questions such as how human conflicts can be resolved in ways that promote justice/peace. Definitions, conditions, and causes of violence, nonviolence, war, and peace between nations, groups, or individuals.
SW 2501W - Introduction to Social Justice [WI DSJ]
(4 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Meanings of social justice. Ways in which social justice advocates work for social change. Criminal justice, globalization, and social welfare. Students do service learning in a social justice organization.
SW 3501 - Theories and Practices of Social Change Organizing
(4 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Concepts, theories, and practices of social change organizing. U.S. power relations. How people organize. Cross-class, multi-racial, and multi-issue organizing. Students do service learning in social justice organization.
SW 3701 - Introduction to Child Maltreatment: Intervention and Prevention
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was SW 3706 until 05-SEP-06
Child abuse/neglect as form of family violence. Prevalence, scope, dynamics, responses, and prevention strategies. Individual, familial, and community analyses using ecological perspective and risk/resilience framework.
SW 3702 - Introduction to Adult Intimate Partner Violence: Intervention and Prevention
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was SW 3402 until 05-SEP-06
Theories, research, intervention, and prevention strategies regarding violence against women and the abuse of vulnerable adults in the United States. Issues of gender, race, culture, age, physical ability, SES, and sexual orientation. Includes service learning.
SW 3703 - Gender Violence in Global Perspective
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was SW 3705 until 05-SEP-06
Theories/research on violence in intimate domestic relationships examined through multiple lenses. Overview of interventions in Minnesota, United States, and other societies.
SW 4501 - Senior Seminar in Social Justice
(4 cr; Prereq-2501, 3501; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Capstone course. Students complete a social justice portfolio, do service learning in a social justice organization.
SW 4693 - Directed Studies
(1 cr [max 10]; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 10 credits)
Guided individual reading or study related to social issues, social work methods, or social work history.
SW 4694 - Directed Research
(1 cr [max 10]; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 10 credits)
Guided research related to social issues, social work methods, or social work history.
SW 5051 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Social, psychological, biological, and cultural factors of individual and group development as applied to social work practice. Behavior and life-cycle development focusing on diversity and each stage of life. Discuss development in terms of the individual, and in terms of overlapping social systems such as the multi-generational family, culture, community, and society.
SW 5101 - Historical Origins and Contemporary Policies in Social Welfare
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall; may be repeated for 4 credits)
Contemporary policies and programs in social welfare are examined in light of their historical origins and evolution. A framework is then developed for analysis of concepts and principles in contemporary social policy for social welfare programs and services. The emergence of the profession of social work also examined.
SW 5562 - Global Social Work and Social Development
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was SW 5911 until 03-SEP-13
Theories/strategies of social work and social development in industrial/developing countries. Applying international perspective and comparative framework to analyze basic human needs, social problems, and social work and social development strategies in different countries.
SW 5709 - Applied Psychopharmacology for Human Service Professionals (Partially Internet-delivered)
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was ADDS 5003 until 04-SEP-12
Categories of psychoactive drugs. Medications to treat mental disorders. Legal drugs such as alcohol, nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana. What is occurring physiologically when someone takes a psychoactive drug.
SW 5711 - Co-Occurring Addictive and Mental Health Disorders (Internet-delivered)
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was ADDS 5004 until 04-SEP-12
Mentally ill, chemically abusive, or dependent clients. Intervention, advocacy, education, and support for client and those who are part of his or her environment. Social, environmental, and multicultural factors. Meets partial state requirements for becoming licensed as an alcohol/drug counselor.
SW 5903 - Substance Use and Social Work (Partially Online)
(2 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was SW 5708 until 22-JAN-13
Students gain skills in eliminating the detrimental impact of substance use disorders at multiple levels (families, groups, organizations, and communities) through an ability to identify, assess, intervene, and evaluate those struggling with substance use and dependency throughout the life span.
SW 5904 - Facilitation and Conflict Management: Humanistic Approach (interactive TV, Partially Online)
(2 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was SW 5519 until 04-SEP-12
Humanistic approach to facilitating meetings in small human service organizations and units within large bureaucratic structures. Managing conflict among individuals, groups, and communities in multiple settings.
SW 5905 - Permanency in Child Welfare (Partially Online)
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Depth/breadth in knowledge/skill acquisition in achieving permanency for children receiving services within public, tribal, and private child welfare systems. Out-of-home/permanency placements, specific permanency interventions, and child/family responses to different permanency options.
SW 5906 - Advanced Ethical Decision Making
(1 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was SW 5811 until 22-JAN-13
Identify ethical issues, resolve ethical dilemmas, make ethical decisions when confronted with conflicting duties/choices that occur within the context of professional social work at all levels of practice.
SW 5907 - School Social Work (Partially Online)
(1 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was SW 5314 until 04-SEP-12
Apply social work knowledge/skills in school settings through prevention, assessment, intervention, and evaluation from an ecological multilevel approach focused on students, families, and the school community.
SW 5912 - Grief and Loss in Social Work Practice
(1 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Review current concepts of grief/loss. Historical/modern views, symptoms of grief, implications of diverse losses, including expected, sudden, or traumatic losses, ambiguous grief.
SW 5913 - Working with Immigrant Populations (interactive TV, Partially Online)
(2 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Trends in immigration to US and public policy responses. Acculturation processes, issues, problems. Common social service needs of immigrants/refugees. Skills for engagement/interventions with immigrants and refugees across main fields of social work.
SW 5991 - Independent Study in Social Work
(1 cr [max 4]; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 4 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Independent study in areas of special interest to students and faculty. This course is open to graduate students in the School of Social Work with an approved independent study proposal. MSW students may apply a maximum of 4 credits of SW 5991 to their program of study.
SW 8010 - Seminar: Field Practicum I
(1 cr [max 6]; S-N only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 8 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Integrates classroom learning with direct experience of a social work field internship. Professional support/learning groups focus on student-and facilitator-identified issues. Students discuss professional/personal biases, ethical dilemmas, and supervisory issues. Cross-cultural understanding, implications of cross-cultural practice.
SW 8020 - Field Practicum II
(1 cr [max 6]; S-N or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Integrates classroom learning within a concentration with the direct experience of an internship. Students expand competency in cross-cultural practice.
SW 8030 - Advanced Standing Social Work Practicum
(1 cr [max 6]; S-N or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Integrates classroom learning with direct experience of a social work field internship. Professional support/learning groups discuss issues raised in field placement. Groups focus on professional/personal biases, ethical dilemmas, supervisory issues, cross-cultural sharing, and implications of students' privilege/power in relation to client systems.
SW 8041 - Specialized Field Placement
(1 cr [max 4]; Prereq-[8020 or 8030], instr consent; S-N only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 4 credits)
Field placement added to required foundation/concentration field placements (or to concentration placement for advanced standing students).
SW 8051 - Psychopathology and Social Work Practice
(3 cr; Prereq-All foundation courses for full program or advanced standing or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Summer)
Psychopathology from ecosystemic perspective. Biopsychosocial influences on incidence, course, treatment of common mental disorders diagnosed from infancy through adulthood. Differential effects on populations at risk. Diagnostic skills, alternative intervention strategies, social work roles.
SW 8105 - Economic Security of Disadvantaged Populations
(3 cr; Prereq-[8211, advanced standing] or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Impact of social policy and macro economic trends on economic security of disadvantaged populations. Focuses on antipoverty/welfare programs in the United States, although international perspective is used as well.
SW 8151 - Social Work Methods: Practice With Individuals and Systems (Partially Online)
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was SW 8201 until 04-SEP-12
Develops foundation knowledge and skills for social workers to work with individuals and systems.
SW 8152 - Social Work Practice Methods: Families and Groups (Partially Online)
(2 cr; Prereq-MSW student or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was SW 8202 until 04-SEP-12
Develop foundational knowledge and skills in relationship building, engagement, interviewing, and assessment with families and groups using the ecological-systems theoretical framework and resiliency-based approach.
SW 8153 - Social Work Practice Methods: Macro Practice and Organizations (Partially Online)
(2 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Models of community intervention, community practice and macro-level interventions as integral to professional social work. Building upon theoretical approaches to human service organizations and their distinct attributes, the course addresses key practice knowledge, skills, and values that promote, develop, and maintain human service organizations that effectively meet community and client needs.
SW 8251 - Social Work Practice in Health, Disabilities, and Aging
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Social work practice in health/disabilities/aging. History in social work, practice contexts/settings, service delivery systems. Practice/population overlaps, distinctions, co-operations.
SW 8261 - Advanced Social Work Practice in Health Care
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Advanced social work practice in health care. Theoretical models/evidence-based interventions. Psychosocial assessment, treatment interventions, interdisciplinary teamwork, ethics, leadership
SW 8262 - Empowerment Practice With Persons With Disabilities
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Models of disability, types of disability, common social work practices. Knowledge/skills for use across lifespan/ cultures/various settings.
SW 8263 - Essential Skills and Perspectives for Working with Older Adults
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Intervention skills that are tailored for older adults in individual, family, group, residential, and community settings. Focus on bio-psycho-social-cultural-spiritual perspectives and evidence-based approaches.
SW 8312 - Advanced Social Work Practice With Groups
(3 cr; Prereq-[8201, 8202, adv standing] or instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall)
Advanced clinical social work practice with groups. How to differentiate among available models of group work and select an appropriate model based on needs of client population and on context in which they are served.
SW 8313 - Professional Practice in Interdisciplinary Teams and Collaboratives
(3 cr; Prereq-[Foundation curriculum, [advanced standing or grad student in health and human service or in educational professional program]] or instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Principles of interdisciplinary/interorganizational collaboration in human services, health, and educational settings. Team building, decision-making models, engaging value differences, managing conflict on team, role/status disparities, relational communications. Emerging approaches to interorganizational collaboration.
SW 8315 - Mood Disorders: New Directions in Clinical Care (interactive TV)
(2 cr; Prereq-[Foundation coursework, advanced standing] or instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Spring)
Depression. Current research from biochemical, genetic, familial, and sociocultural perspectives. Gender, racial, ethnic, class, and sexual preference issues concerning prevalence, assessment and treatment.
SW 8333 - FTE: Master's
(1 cr; Prereq-Master's student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; 6 academic progress units; 6 financial aid progress units)
(No description)
SW 8351 - Assessment and Engagement with Families and Children
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Utilizing evidence-informed, culturally respectful assessments/engagement models with families/children. Factors internal/external to families. Work with families/children around broad scope of stressors. Resiliency.
SW 8352 - Intervention Methods with Families
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Work with families/children in family-centered, community, preventive practice. Engagement, assessment, intervention, evaluation.
SW 8361 - Identification and Assessment of Family Violence
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was SW 5705 until 04-SEP-12
Identification/assessment of family violence. Contextual knowledge of behaviors of perpetrators, victims, survivors. Gender, race, culture, age, ability, SES, sexual orientation.
SW 8363 - Social Work in Child Welfare
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was SW 8301 until 22-JAN-13
Public, private, tribal child welfare related to assessment of strengths/risks. Develop appropriate plans that secure child safety/well-being.
SW 8444 - FTE: Doctoral
(1 cr; Prereq-Doctoral student, adviser and DGS consent; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; 6 academic progress units; 6 financial aid progress units)
(No description)
SW 8451 - Assessment and Engagement in Clinical Social Work Practice
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Mental health diagnostic codes/classifications. Interviewing skills, assessment writing skills/techniques. Biopsychosocial perspective/engagement strategies.
SW 8452 - Core Concepts in Clinical Social Work Practice
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Interpersonal process skills. Developing/maintaining effective therapeutic alliances/positive intervention outcomes with diverse populations.
SW 8461 - Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice with Adults
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was SW 8303 until 04-SEP-12
Research-informed clinical interventions for adults with mental health distress. Application of cognitive behavioral/psychodynamic psychotherapies through brief/long-term models across diverse populations.
SW 8462 - Advanced Clinical Practice With Children and Adolescents
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was SW 8304 until 04-SEP-12
Social work interventions using normative developmental supports/mental health case planning. Develop advanced clinical social work practice knowledge/skills for working with children/adolescents with mental health risks. Provide knowledge for community social workers serving children exposed to stress.
SW 8463 - Practice Interventions with Persons Who Experience Serious Mental Illness
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
An overview of SW practice in community mental health services to improve the lives of persons (adults and children) who experience serious mental illness. Topics: context of mental health care and recovery, stigma, needs and strengths assessment, service planning, and current evidence-based interventions.
SW 8502 - Resource Development and Management
(3 cr; Prereq-[Foundation curriculum, advanced standing] or instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall)
Procuring/managing financial resources in social work settings. Principles of philanthropy. Fund raising, grant writing, preparing/monitoring budgets, interpreting basic financial reports. Management information systems, accountability requirements.
SW 8519 - Mediation and Conflict Resolution for Social Workers
(3 cr; Prereq-Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for: : 5519; MSW student or grad conflict mgmt minor or instr consent; Student Option; offered Periodic Spring)
Advanced mediator skills for social workers; appropriateness of mediation for conflicts that frequently confront social work practitioners, such as divorce, neighborhood disputes, and conflicts between parents and adolescents, between spouses, and between crime victims and offenders.
SW 8525 - Global Perspectives on Social Welfare, Peace, and Justice
(3 cr; Prereq-[8211, advanced standing] or instr consent; A-F only; offered Periodic Spring)
Role of international social welfare in meeting basic human needs and promoting human rights, social justice, and peace. Theories, models, and strategies of social welfare in different economic/political systems. Emphasizes Third World nations. Skills for social workers and other professionals in the helping professions.
SW 8551 - Advanced Community Practice: Assessment, Organizing, and Advocacy
(3 cr; Prereq-[5051, 5101, 8151, 8152, 8153, 8154] or MSW Adv Standing or instr consent; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Community practice, including community organizing, policy advocacy, social service/change leadership.
SW 8552 - Advanced Community Practice: Leadership, Planning, and Program Development
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Advanced community practice knowledge/skills. Strategic planning, program design, organizational leadership/management, work groups.
SW 8563 - Advanced Policy Advocacy
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Students paired with social service, social policy, social justice agencies, coalitions. Agenda setting, legislative research, legislative advocacy in relation to specific legislation proposed in Minnesota state legislature. Tie policy theory to real-world practice.
SW 8666 - Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits
(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-Doctoral student who has not passed prelim oral; no required consent for 1st/2nd registrations, up to 12 combined cr; dept consent for 3rd/4th registrations, up to 24 combined cr; doctoral student admitted before summer 2007 may register up to four times, up to 60 combined cr; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
TBD
SW 8693 - Directed Study
(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 6 times)
Independent study under tutorial guidance.
SW 8694 - Directed Research
(1 cr [max 6]; Prereq-instr consent; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 6 credits)
Individual or small group research inquiry translating introductory course content into research design and study. Projects may be conducted in conjunction with field learning experiences or other coursework.
SW 8804 - Child Welfare Policy
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was SW 8101 until 22-JAN-13
Develops advanced policy knowledge/skills for social workers practicing in or collaborating with public or private child welfare services.
SW 8805 - Aging and Disability Policy
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Social policy related to disability/aging. Major policy areas of income support, health, education, caregiving, employment, housing, retirement.
SW 8806 - Health and Mental Health Policy
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was SW 8103 until 22-JAN-13
Critically engage in health/mental health policy debate, analysis, development, implementation.
SW 8807 - International and Comparative Social Welfare Policy
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Cross-national comparisons of social welfare policies, major international conventions, treaties. Social welfare, social development theories/policies. In-depth analyses of selected countries' policies, international agreements, social development strategies.
SW 8821 - Social Work and Difference, Diversity and Privilege (Partially Online)
(2 cr; A-F only; offered Every Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was SW 8702 until 04-SEP-12
Essential knowledge/awareness/skills to support culturally competent social work practice.
SW 8841 - Social Work Research Methods (Partially Online)
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was SW 8601 until 04-SEP-12
Develops foundational research methods knowledge/skills fundamental to evidence-based social work practice.
SW 8842 - Advanced Social Work Evaluation (Partially Online)
(1 cr [max 3]; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Students design/carry out evaluation of program or own direct practice. Purposes/types of evaluations. Instrument design, data analysis, ethical issues. Organizational, political, social, cultural factors affecting evaluation in diverse human contexts.
SW 8843 - Social Work Program Evaluation
(1 cr [max 2]; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 3 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Students design, implement, and present an evaluation of a program either in their field practicum or of particular interest to them. Class topics include the purpose and types of evaluations; instrument design; data collection techniques and management; data analysis; ethical issues; and organizational, political, social, and cultural factors influencing evaluation in diverse human contexts.
SW 8851 - Social Welfare History and Historical Research Methods
(3 cr; Prereq-Completed research courses for soc work PhD student or [equiv research methods courses, grad student]; A-F only; offered Periodic Spring)
Methods of historical research in, and survey of, history/evolution of social welfare/work, using primary/secondary source materials.
SW 8855 - Social Policy Formulation and Analysis
(3 cr; Prereq-Soc wk PhD student or instr consent; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Application of theoretical perspectives, conceptual frameworks, and research methodologies to analysis of social issues and analysis/formulation of social welfare policy.
SW 8861 - Theory and Model Development in Social Work
(3 cr; Prereq-Soc wk PhD student or instr consent; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall)
Intervention research methods, contemporary social work practice models. Direct intervention in systems, from individual to community. Theoretical, value, empirical foundations of practice models for intervention research.
SW 8871 - Social Work Research Seminar I
(3 cr; Prereq-Soc wk PhD student or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Fall)
Concepts/methods of social research. Issues in social science, social work research, and knowledge development. Development of research questions. Sampling, measurement, data collection in qualitative/quantitative research.
SW 8872 - Social Work Research Seminar II
(3 cr; Prereq-8871 or instr consent; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Methods/design of quasi-experiments, surveys, descriptive research. Grounded theory. Analysis of quantitative/qualitative data.
SW 8875 - Research Practicum
(2 cr; Prereq-Soc wk PhD student or instr consent; S-N or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Experience in conduct of research, following completion of 8871 and 8872. Students work under faculty direction.
SW 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral
(1 cr [max 24]; Prereq-Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 100 credits; may be repeated 10 times)
(No description)
SW 8901 - Assessment and Treatment of Trauma
(2 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was SW 8316 until 22-JAN-13
Sociopolitical context of trauma. Impact on diverse populations of individuals, families, communities. Evidence-based approaches for addressing trauma on multiple system levels. Applications to case conceptualization, treatment planning.
SW 8902 - Social Work Supervision, Consultation, and Leadership
(2 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was SW 8803 until 04-SEP-12
Principles, practice skills, models of supervision: administration, education, support. Power/authority, leadership, use of self in supervising. Ethics, risk management, legal obligations. Simulated skills practice, experiential learning.

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