Catholic University
Course Information:
SSS 880: Organizational Theory and Change
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
Examines types of organizational theories, their purposes, and applications to human service systems, structures, and processes, as well as theories of organizational change. Included for analysis are classic bureaucratic theory, scientific management, public organization theory, communication theory, behaviorism, and organizational development theories. Explores themes, questions, and explanatory bases of organizational theories as they relate to specific attributes of human service organizations. |
SSS 890: Advanced Policy Analysis
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
Presents the major social welfare policy and planning conceptual schemas. Considers these schemas and variables such as beliefs, values, ideologies, customs, and the economy in relation to policy and planning. Also considers policy analysis and formulation and implementation methods and procedures. Participants engage in special projects to pursue policy analysis, development, or planning in their major substantive area. Includes research findings in relation to policy and planning. |
SSS 946: Theories of Social Justice
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
Examines and compares several theories of social justice, including utilitarian, egalitarian, libertarian, communitarian, and feminist approaches. Principles of equality, equity, utility, and natural rights considered from both micro and macro perspectives. Illustrations from health care; child, family, and intergenerational justice; juvenile and adult corrections; racism; gender justice; and global issues. Prerequisite or concurrent: 944. |
SSS 886: Issues in International Social Development
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
Focuses on such international concerns as migration, refugees, disaster assistance, and adoption. Considers policies and programs to positively influence these problems. |
SSS 876: Advanced Field Instruction and Seminar: Social Change
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
Students are placed in field agencies which provide them with supervised experience in macro social work practice. Concurrent with the practicum, the seminar prepares students to integrate skills learned in academic courses with practice in the field and provides opportunities for the sharing of student cases and/or projects. Prerequisites: Foundation year curriculum; prerequisite or co-requisites: 757 and advanced year theory and practice courses. |
SSS 875: Advanced Field Instruction & Seminar: Macro I
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
Students are placed in field agencies that provide them with supervised experience in macro social work practice. Concurrent with the practicum, the seminar prepares students to integrate skills learned in academic courses with practice in the field and provides opportunities for the sharing of student cases and/or projects. Prerequisites: Foundation year curriculum; prerequisite or co-requisite: 757 and advanced year theory and practice courses. |
SSS 847: Capp II: Leadership for Change in Macro Social Work Settings
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
This course focuses on developing leadership skills to facilitate anti-oppressive processes for change through deliberate, thoughtful, and strategic planning, communication, and intervention. Students will learn approaches to community organizing and development, organizational management and leadership, and policy advocacy. Within these change processes, students will develop skills and strategies to work with diverse populations, understanding and negotiating power dynamics, and critically self-evaluating themselves and their positionalities within and throughout the change process. |
SSS 846: Social Justice: Theory and Practice
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
This course focuses on theory and practice that helps social workers conceptualize what social justice looks like and critically assess organizational, community, and policy contexts in collaboration with marginalized and oppressed populations. Students will develop a sophisticated understanding of theories of social justice; prevailing social, economic, and political contexts that shape living and working conditions; and approaches to engagement, assessment, and problem identification rooted in anti-oppressive and anti-racist perspectives. Specifically, students will apply social justice frameworks to analyze social policies and develop policy recommendations that are intentional about ameliorating suffering and contributing to more just living conditions. Additionally, students will develop an understanding of social justice praxis in organizational, community, and policy contexts--focusing on participatory and reflexive methods of engagement and assessment, restorative justice practices, and planning for social change. At the end of the course, students will propose a plan to engage in a needs assessment using participatory principles, in the context of their choosing. |
SSS 835: Community Organizing for Equitable Development
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
This course focuses on theory and practice that helps social workers conceptualize what social justice looks like and critically assess organizational, community, and policy contexts in collaboration with marginalized and oppressed populations. Students will develop a sophisticated understanding of theories of social justice; prevailing social, economic, and political contexts that shape living and working conditions; and approaches to engagement, assessment, and problem identification rooted in anti-oppressive and anti-racist perspectives. Specifically, students will apply social justice frameworks to analyze social policies and develop policy recommendations that are intentional about ameliorating suffering and contributing to more just living conditions. Additionally, students will develop an understanding of social justice praxis in organizational, community, and policy contexts--focusing on participatory and reflexive methods of engagement and assessment, restorative justice practices, and planning for social change. At the end of the course, students will propose a plan to engage in a needs assessment using participatory principles, in the context of their choosing. |
SSS 835: Community Organizing for Equitable Development
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
The course is designed to deepen students' knowledge and skills in community development practice with an emphasis on learning skills to awaken power and build leadership in residents of low-income communities for resident-led community development efforts. The course is grounded in the popular education methods of Paulo Friere. These methods honor the wisdom, knowledge, and experience of all members of a community. Popular education methods apply a problem-focused approach to action where community members reflect on a shared problem, plan a response to that problem and further reflect on the process and outcome of their action. |
SS 832: Management of Non-Profit Organization
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
Presents management theories and the various functions of management. Emphasis on management as a social work method and on the conceptual, human, and technical skills needed to manage agencies in a manner consistent with social work values and ethics. Prerequisite: Foundation-year curriculum. |
SSS 757: Evaluation of Social Work Programs
Graduate
Credit-Bearing |
Introduces students to the basic theoretical and methodological concepts of program evaluation. Topics include needs assessment, program monitoring, program effectiveness and efficiency, measurement, survey and group designs, and quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques. Prerequisites: Foundation-year curriculum. |
Program Information:
National Catholic School
of Social Service
MSW Program
Degree and Certificate InformationDegrees
Degree/
Level | Title/
English Correspondence | Subject | Credit Hours | Working
Language | History |
|---|
Master of Social Work
Graduate |
MSW |
Community, Administration, and Policy Practice(CAPP) |
60 |
English |
The Master of Social Work program at the National Catholic School of Social Service (NCSSS) seeks to prepare advanced practitioners who, consistent with their chosen concentrations, act as agents of change to promote individual and societal well-being. The goals of the MSW program, in keeping with the goals of the school and grounded in the liberal arts, ensure the education of social workers whose practice is rooted in traditional and contemporary theories but is also current with the demands of the changing practice environment. The curriculum is designed so that all students in the MSW program will develop competencies as social work practitioners. |
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