Social Work

Examines social work roles in American Indian communities, focusing on ICWA compliance, historical trauma, and policy impacts on Tribal families.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Family Law: Parent and Child covers parent-child relationships, rights of unmarried parents, custody, neglect, termination of parental rights, and the foster care and adoption systems.

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Interprofessional Collaborative Practice in HIV Care covers the history and epidemiology of the HIV epidemic, the HIV care continuum, and team-based care involving medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and social work.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Interdisciplinary team care of children with special health care needs across the trajectory of illness, covering family, culture, social determinants, community, and healthcare policy.

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An interdisciplinary introduction to health care systems covering factors affecting health, delivery settings, worker roles, and sociological/economic aspects.

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An introductory course focusing on social work and helping professions that examines social problems and critiques various approaches to creating social change.

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Introduction to the field of social work covering historical development, formation of social welfare policies, and the role of the social work professional.

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Introduction to Social Policy explores the U.S. policy process and the political, economic, and institutional frameworks structuring public social welfare choices.

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Contemporary Issues in Social Welfare explores varying topics on current trends in social justice, welfare, and social work.

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Field Practice and Integrative Seminar II is an approved generalist field seminar and social work agency placement requiring a minimum of 16 hours per week as the second course in the two-semester generalist field sequence.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Generalist Practice with Communities and Organizations covers the theory and practice of planned change in communities and organizations, helping students apply a generalist model at these intervention levels.

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Examines social, historical, legal, political, and ethical dimensions of alcohol and psychotropic drug use and abuse in the United States within a substance use disorders framework.

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Human Behavior and the Environment covers physiological, psychological, and social changes throughout the life cycle and major crisis and developmental tasks for social work practice.

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Introduction to housing precarity and being unhoused in the U.S., exploring housing markets, social policies, demography, history, and service needs through classroom and community-based learning.

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Covers psychopathology in generalist social work practice, using the DSM to review major mental disorders across the lifespan and critique the medical model.

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Overview of risk/protective factors, theories, services, research, and policies for social work with infants, toddlers, and families; discusses prevention/intervention models for social/emotional wellbeing.

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An anti-oppressive analysis of sex trading, including sex trafficking and sex work, focusing on risk, prevention, identification, intervention, and implications for practice and policy.

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Covers affirming social work practice with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, nonbinary, queer, intersex, asexual, Two-Spirit, and other LGBTQIA2S+ individuals and communities.

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Issues in Developmental Disabilities covers definition, incidence, etiology, prevention, life-cycle needs, social-welfare issues, and the social worker's role.

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SOCWORK 646 examines child abuse and neglect, including physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, neglect, and exploitation, with attention to ethics, identity, poverty, risk assessment, and policy impacts on diverse children and families.

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Social work practice in palliative care addressing psychosocial, cultural, existential, ethical, and team-based care for individuals and families impacted by serious illness.

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Examines foundational principles of social work research to promote critical consumption of empirical studies. Covers qualitative and quantitative design evaluation for evidence-based practice.

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Explores out-of-home care and permanency in child welfare, covering foster care, kinship care, adoption, and policy from local to national perspectives.

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Topics in Contemporary Social Welfare explores varying current issues and trends in social justice, social welfare, and social work.

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Directed Study is an independent study course for undergraduate students in Social Work, conducted under the direction of a Social Work instructor.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Course for Part-Time MSW students with partial exemptions to maintain UW-Madison status when no other courses are available.

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Analysis of policy issues applied to poverty, discrimination, crime, and physical and mental health at national and state levels.

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A foundational social work course that examines how interpersonal and institutional oppression affect diverse populations and what those dynamics imply for social policy.

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Psychopathology for social work practice focusing on biopsychosocial understanding, person-in-environment, and current classification systems.

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Explores evidence-based services for children and adolescents using a person-in-environment, person-centered approach to assessment, treatment, intervention planning, and mental health practice issues.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources