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Ranked courses have at least 100 recorded letter grades.
Analysis of policy issues applied to poverty, discrimination, crime, and physical and mental health at national and state levels.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2024–Spring 2026Advanced social work practice in educational settings, focusing on integrating theory, advocating for student supports, and addressing inequities through data-informed strategies.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Spring 2026Field Practice and Integrative Seminar IV is an approved advanced practice social work field seminar and placement.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Spring 2026Advanced Macro Practice explores approaches to foster social justice across organizations, communities, and society while practicing advanced skills for complex macro-level issues.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026A foundational social work course that examines how interpersonal and institutional oppression affect diverse populations and what those dynamics imply for social policy.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Spring 2026Field 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
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Spring 2026Examines evidence-based cognitive and behavioral interventions used by social workers to treat adult mental health challenges, including CBT theory and application.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026Covers psychopathology in generalist social work practice, using the DSM to review major mental disorders across the lifespan and critique the medical model.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Spring 2026Explores 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
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026Explores out-of-home care and permanency in child welfare, covering foster care, kinship care, adoption, and policy from local to national perspectives.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Daniel Sintim
The asynchronous format limited opportunities for student-to-student interaction while delivering complex content.
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Spring 2026Generalist 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.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026An introductory course focusing on social work and helping professions that examines social problems and critiques various approaches to creating social change.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · EVELYN COKER
One student reported that attendance was mandatory in Evelyn Coker's past section, and said guest lectures had mostly no actual work attached to them.
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026SOCWORK 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.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Mental Health Policies and Services prepares students for leadership roles by examining policies and services that shape mental health care systems and treatment for persons with mental illness.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026Examines 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.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Lucas Moore
Grades were mostly determined by quizzes, three short-answer exams, and a 2-4 page paper; students described the work as not too much, with lenient free-response grading.
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026Issues in Developmental Disabilities covers definition, incidence, etiology, prevention, life-cycle needs, social-welfare issues, and the social worker's role.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026An interdisciplinary introduction to health care systems covering factors affecting health, delivery settings, worker roles, and sociological/economic aspects.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · David Dwyer
The course required significant effort for a 2-credit class, including weekly discussion posts, detailed reading, and projects. Quizzes often tested specific details, and grading was described as strict by some students.
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Fall 2022–Spring 2026Introduction to the field of social work covering historical development, formation of social welfare policies, and the role of the social work professional.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Stephanie Robert
The class was considered easy if students attended lectures, as exam answers directly reflected the material covered in class.
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026Contemporary Issues in Social Welfare explores varying topics on current trends in social justice, welfare, and social work.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Tally Moses
The course included quizzes and a cumulative final exam. One student found quizzes easy if studied, while another found them challenging but helpful for final preparation.
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2025Human Behavior and the Environment covers physiological, psychological, and social changes throughout the life cycle and major crisis and developmental tasks for social work practice.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Spring 2026Examines foundational principles of social work research to promote critical consumption of empirical studies. Covers qualitative and quantitative design evaluation for evidence-based practice.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
historical GPA · grades
Spring 2023–Spring 2026Introduction to Social Policy explores the U.S. policy process and the political, economic, and institutional frameworks structuring public social welfare choices.
Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources
Past student reviews · Katherine Magnuson
Exams consisted of straight lecture material but included multiple-choice questions that a student described as difficult and unfair.
historical GPA · grades
Fall 2022–Spring 2026