[ECNL] Organization Management
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Setting goals and objectives; the strategic plan from discussion to development, adoption, and implementation. |
[ECNL] Organization Budgeting
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Creating institutional and program budgets; monitoring expenses and revenue through regular reports; the annual audit. |
[ECNL] Program Development
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Creating and evaluating programs that carry out the strategic plan and can respond to new opportunities. |
[ECNL] Proposal Writing
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Creating the proposal for public or private funders that has the best chance of succeeding. |
[ECNL] Fundraising
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Doing special events and corporate, foundation, and individual solicitations. |
[ECNL] Staff Management
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Establishing department and individual goals; motivation and evaluation. |
[ECNL] Board Development
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Motivating and supporting trustees; identifying new trustees. |
[ECNL] Public Advocacy
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
The importance of, and how to go about, advocating and lobbying for a nonprofit organization. |
[ECNL] Public Relations and Marketing
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
How to use the media—print, radio, TV, and the Web—to grow public awareness of and involvement with your nonprofit organization. |
[ECNL] Personal Communications
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
How to handle any audience as though your career depends on it; dealing with the media—print, electronic and Internet. |
SWGS 6005. Contemporary Social Welfare Policy
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Students will learn that human rights and justice drive social welfare policies and their implementation at the international, federal, state, and local levels. The course introduces students to the underlying values, assumptions and philosophical perspectives that have influenced the development of the US social welfare system, its goals, policies and programs. Students will learn about policy formulation, analysis, and the role of social work in policy development and implementation within their practice settings at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. The course introduces students to the historical, social, cultural, political, economic, organizational, environmental, and global influences that affect social policy. |
SWGS 6040. Integrating Human Rights and Justice in Practice.
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Every person regardless of position in society or geographic location has fundamental human rights such as freedom, safety and security, privacy, an adequate standard of living, health care, and education. This course introduces students to how social workers may conceptualize the global intersections and interconnections of justice, equality and human rights. Students are introduced to an integrated practice framework that promotes human rights and justice and identifies the root causes of global social issues. They will explore theories that address human need, social, economic, and environmental justice, intersectionality, diversity, and oppression and discrimination. In this course, students learn how to recognize the extent to which a culture’s structure and values, including social, economic, political, and cultural exclusions, may oppress, marginalize, alienate, or create privilege and power. Students learn to engage in advocacy to advance human rights social, economic, and environmental justice domestically and internationally. |
SWGS 6323. Social Work Practice With Individuals Across the Lifespan
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course uses a generalist framework to prepare students for direct social work practice with individuals. Learners explore the theories, knowledge and fundamental skills necessary to practice successfully with individual clients. Students will learn the multiple phases of practices from engagement through termination. Students will be introduced to the ethical and legal obligations that guide social work practice with individuals. |
SWGS 6324. Social Work Practice With Families and Groups Across the Lifespan.
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course uses a generalist framework to prepare students for direct social work practice with families and groups. Learners explore the theories, knowledge and fundamental skills necessary to practice successfully with families and groups. Students will learn the multiple phases of practices from engagement through termination. Students will be introduced to the ethical and legal obligations that guide social work practice with families and groups. |
SWGS 6305. Social Work Skills Lab
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This skill-based course is anchored in the knowledge of generalist social work practice. Students will develop competency in performing essential social work skills via simulations, role-plays and peer activities. These skills will be applied to working with client systems including individuals, families, groups, communities and organizations. Case scenarios developed for this course will reflect the realities of contemporary social work practice. The emphasis will be on student performance in using the engagement and intervention skills with various client systems. |
SWGS 6320. Social Work Practice With Organizations and Communities.
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course uses a generalist framework to prepare students for direct social work practice with organizations and communities. Learners explore the theories, knowledge and fundamental skills necessary to practice successfully with organizations and communities. Students will learn the multiple phases of practices from engagement through termination. Students will be introduced to the ethical and legal obligations that guide social work practice with organizations and communities. |
SWGS 6440. Advanced Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
The course builds on the skills, values, knowledge and processes of the generalist curriculum, serving as a bridge between generalist and advanced assessment theory and practice. Specifically, the course extends the person-in-environment assessment perspective of Generalist Practice with the addition of more intensive assessment of the individual’s inner world, including psychodynamic conflicts processes and ego defenses. The course is entitled “Advanced Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis” rather than “Psychopathology” to remind students that clinical assessment need not lead to a diagnosis of mental illness. The course covers practitioner self-awareness; the relationship between mental health and mental illness; risk and resilience; bio-psycho-social-spiritual assessment; a strength-informed cooperative assessment process; a critical use of the DSM-5, and major types of mental illness and their evidence-supported treatments. |
SWGS 6803. Applied Social Work Research and Evaluation.
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course introduces students to social work research. It focuses on the scientific method from the process of developing knowledge to critically evaluating research. Students will learn about formulating a research question; research methodology, including study design, sampling, measurement, and data collection methods; ethical issues in research; and understanding how to read and understand research reports and publications. |
SWGS 6901. Generalist Field Instruction.
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Generalist Field curriculum is designed to facilitate students' mastery of the fundamentals of social work practice and the acquisition of the nine professional practice competencies required by the Council of Social Work Education (CSWE). Students are provided a minimum of 450 hours structured across two academic semesters in a vetted agency that provides generalist level learning opportunities to successfully demonstrate Generalist level social work practice competence. This includes 7 two-hour Field Advisement sessions where students will meet for group advisement with their assigned Field Advisor. The Field Advisement sessions serve as a forum for support to help students successfully complete Field Education. Four sessions will be held during semester one and three sessions in semester two during their Generalist Field Education. |
SWGS 6605. Community Organizing.
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course provides a history of community organizing, especially in the context of the social work profession and as a way of meeting the needs of vulnerable and at-risk populations and communities. Focus is on the various community organizing models and the array of roles and functions of community organizers. Emphasis is on practice strategies and tactics for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating community organizing projects and campaigns. |
SWGS 6615. Supervision & Staff Development
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
In this course, students examine supervision and staff development as management functions in diverse agency settings and within the context of social work values and ethics. The philosophy, functions, principles, and methods of supervision as well as staff development and training are covered. Emphasis is given to the knowledge and skills required to motivate and retain an effective and multicultural workforce, and to effectively supervise varying levels of staff (volunteers, nonprofessionals, professionals) during turbulent times. |
SWGS 6622. Advanced Integrated Practice With Organizations and Communities
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course prepares social work practitioners who operate within and through frameworks of human rights, social, economic and environmental justice, and empowerment practices. Learners will be trained to engage in social change at all levels of society in order to become social workers who are committed to equity all forms. By cultivating advanced community and organizational practice skill development, the course focuses on transforming and enhancing capacities in communities and organization through inclusive and collaborative strategies while increasing access to resources innovations and collaborations. A multidimensional model of organizational and leadership practice within a macro practice lens is used to organize and integrate theories, research, and content. Emphasis is on learning to implement changes within macro level contexts that is consistent with social work values, human rights, social justice and equity. |
SWGS 6625. Fundraising.
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
A significant portion of work in the social welfare arena involves the nonprofit sector, which depends on philanthropic resources and public funding to function and survive. Resource development in the nonprofit sector relates to every dimension of social work practice. On a micro level, funding supports the direct services provided by social workers and other human service professionals. On a macro level, organizational administrators and community leaders collaborate with foundations and other philanthropic entities to support organizational, community, and societal change. This course introduces students to resource development and stewardship via two predominant channels: fundraising and grant making. The course emphasizes supporting the well-being of vulnerable populations. In addition to the development of foundational knowledge and concrete skills, the course conceptualizes philanthropy and fundraising within the framework of human rights, social justice and the NASW Code of Ethics. |
