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Advanced Social Work Research: Program Evaluation

This course prepares students to use the evidence-based practitioner-researcher model to critically evaluate social work practice with organizations and communities. Students will learn essential elements of program evaluation including needs assessment, program logic models, implementation and process evaluations, and impact evaluations. Students will learn to develop research proposals, including grant proposals, and to disseminate research findings through formal research reports.

Promoting Social Justice Through Civic Engagement

This course focuses on using advocacy and leadership skills to promote social justice through civic engagement with communities, social programs, and policy developers.

Social Justice and Social Change

This seminar focuses on the critical analysis of systemic injustice. It will consider the history, meaning, consequences and dynamics of barriers that threaten, preclude or compromise the normal participation of selected vulnerable groups in social, economic and political institutions. It will critically examine concepts such as deviance, dependence, need, social control, and oppression. This critical analysis will form the underpinnings for leadership in the development and implementation of strategies for change.

Social Work Practice with Organizations and Communities

In this course, students will critically describe the political forces, cultural forces, social forces, and professional issues that impact working with organizations and communities.