NGO Education Survey

Department: Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Public Management

Courses:

NLPM 508 Public Budgeting and Finance

NLPM 501 Law and Public Affairs

NLPM 502 Introduction to the Nonprofit Sector

NLPM 503 Communication, Strategic Planning, and Organizational Dynamics

NLPM 504 Program Assessment and Evaluation

NLPM 505 Research Methodology

NLPM 506 Human Resource Management

NLPM 507 Ethics

NLPM 509 Fundraising and Grants Writing for Nonprofit Organizations

NLPM 510 Negotiation, Mediation, and Facilitation

Department: Masters of Social Work

Courses:

SW 501 Theory and Practice of Social Work I

This course introduces the student to conceptual frameworks that encompass practice with all levels of client systems. Students use critical thinking skills to assess client systems, develop intervention strategies, and evaluate practice using a scientific mode of inquiry. Professional relationship, ethical practice, diversity, social and economic justice, professional use of self, problem-solving process, and organizational context for practice are stressed. Focus is on work with individuals and families. This course is taken concurrently with SW 591 and integrates practice experience and course learning. Normally offered in Fall semester only.

SW 502 Practice II: SW Practice With Groups

SW 502 Practice II is the second course in Practice Core Content Area. Following the foundation knowledge presented in SW 501 Practice I, this course continues to focus on the utilization of conceptual frameworks, including the ecological perspectives (i.e. Life Model), interactional approach, and strengths perspective to assess support, therapy and task groups. This course is taken concurrently with SW Field 592 and integrates practice experience and course learning. (Prerequisites: SW 501 and SW 591.) (Co-requisite: SW 592)

SW 503 Practice III: SW Pract. W/ Communities

SW 503 Practice III focuses on the theories relevant to understanding the macro functions of communities, organizations and institutions from a generalist perspective. This course enables students to: 1) understand and apply theories, 2) analyze social organizations and communities needs, and 3) apply phases and skills of developing strategies of the change process in community practice in collaboration with communities and organizations. In addition, students will be encouraged to examine how their own learning and values impact their understanding of and practice at the mezo, exo and macro levels. Prerequisite: SW 601

SW 504 Pract IV: Adv Scl Wrk Pract Ind/Fml

This course presents theories and techniques applicable to social work practice with individuals and families, including those from diverse and at-risk populations. Field education experiences serve as basis for integration and application of theories, assessment of the cultural competence of their interventions with specific populations, examination of strengths and limitations of evidence-based practice, and articulate a personal practice stance. This course is taken concurrently with SW 595.

SW 505 Pract V: Adm in SW

ocus on social work practice from an administrative perspective, including theories and principles of culturally competent management and organization issues in administration, within the context of professional social work. Includes consideration of social and economic justice and ethical imperatives and influences of funding patterns, legislation, organizational culture, and structure on program planning and implementation.

SW 506 Practice VI: Culmination Integrative Se

This course builds on foundation content and theoretical perspectives explored in SW 504. It offers advanced skills in differential interventions with a variety of systems and focuses on post-modern and trauma-informed practice, in addition to theories of loss and grief, as theoretical bases for assessment, intervention, and evaluation. As well, it promotes self-reflective practice and a knowledge of supervision. The course examines discrimination and oppression and the complex interface between individual, family, and group needs within an organizational context.

SW 591 Field Education Experience I

SW 592 Field Education Experience II

Students must complete a total of 440 clock hours in the foundation year. The goal is to foster understanding of the organizational context and social, economic, environmental, and cultural factors with which client systems interact. Students learn the fundamental role of social work values and ethics, identify issues of social and economic justice for oppressed and at-risk persons, and develop a professional identity as they engage in social work practice. SW 591 is taken concurrently with SW 501 and SW 592 with SW 502.

SW 595 Fld Ed Exp III: Advanced Prac?Client Systems Concent

The emphasis of this courses is on enhancing the knowledge and skills learned in the foundation practica and developing advanced competence in work with individuals, families, small groups, communities and organizations. Students work within the political, social, and cultural context of the placement setting, utilizing strengths of these systems for affecting change. Based upon ecological assessment, students differentially select practice theories and intervene in a culturally competent, ethical manner with systems of various sizes. Issues of social economic justice are placed in both organizational and community contexts and addressed through policy or program development and evaluation. This is accomplished through sixteen hours per week of practicum experience under the supervision of an MSW practicum instructor.

SW 596 Fld Ed Exp IV: Advanced Practice W/?Client Systems Concent

The emphasis of these courses is on enhancing the knowledge and skills learned in the foundation practice and developing advanced competence in work with individuals, families, small groups, communities and organizations. Students work within the political, social, and cultural context of the placement setting, utilizing strengths of these systems for affecting change. Based upon ecological assessment, students differentially select practice theories and intervene in a culturally competent, ethical manner with systems of various sizes. Issues of social economic justice are placed in both organizational and community contexts and addressed through policy or program development and evaluation. This is accomplished through sixteen hours per week of practicum experience under the supervision of an MSW practicum instructor.

SW 601 Human Behavior I: Psychosocial Analysis?Of Human Behavior

This is an introduction to biopsychosocial-spiritual factors important to understanding and assessing human growth, personal development, and behavior over the life span. The focus is on interactions among individuals, families, groups, and the social system, and diverse, vulnerable, and oppressed populations. Normally offered in the Fall semester only.

SW 621 Social Work Perspectives on Psych?Psychopathology

This course allows students to identify and develop an understanding of the issues inherent in the study and assessment of individual behavior. As the primary providers of mental health services in the United States, it is imperative that social workers develop knowledge of and skill in using the primary model for assessing and diagnosing mental health disorders, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5. The individual diagnostic groupings are addressed within the framework of the DSM 5 classification system. The inclusion of the strengths perspective counters an obvious shortcoming, from the social work perspective, of DSM 5.

SW 701 Social Work Research: Design & Meth?Methodology

his course introduces principles and methods of conducting and evaluating social research, the importance of ethical issues related to research, and qualitative and quantitative methodologies. It includes examination of selected literature relevant to issues of social and economic justice, diversity, and systems of various sizes.

SW 702 Soc Work Rsrch: Implementation/Analysis

Overview of the role and function of qualitative analyses in addressing research questions and testing hypotheses. Examines approaches to qualitative analysis and the logic behind the application of descriptive and inferential statistical analyses. Examines analytical techniques and the unbiased interpretation of results as they relate to issues of diversity, oppression, and populations at risk. Students learn to use statistical software for processing data and apply theoretical and methodological materials in a required research report. Prerequisite: SW 701.) Students must take both courses with the same professor.

SW 801 Introduction to Social Welfare

This first required course in the Social Policy Sequence examines the present social services delivery system, including the profes?sion of social work, and analyzes its historical development in the relevant political and economic contexts. Emphasis is placed on the dynamic relationship between social welfare as an institution and modern industrial/postindustrial society. Included is an introduc?tion to some basic analytical concepts, such as universality and se?lectivity, institutional and residual, and public and voluntary.

SW 802 Social Policy Advocacy

This course teaches policy practice skills that enable students to use evidence-based data to frame for intervention social issues that affect the lives of marginalized groups of people and populations-at-risk. Using professional values and ethics and the employment of critical thinking skills as a base, students will demonstrate their ability to evaluate the effectiveness of culturally competent policy practice interventions. (Prerequisites: SW 502, SW 503, SW 504, SW 505, SW 591, SW 592, SW 595, SW 601, SW 801, SW 701, SW 702, SW 971.)

SW 971 Ethical Issues in Social Work Practice

This course has been designed to foster sensitivity to ethical concerns and to provide knowledge and experience in ethical decision-making. Students will become familiar with the philosophical base of Social Work ethics and the professional Code of Ethics. Ethical principles and models of ethical decision-making grounded by critical thinking will be presented in relation to case materials reflecting a variety of issues, levels of practice, a diversity of populations, and social justice concerns.