Introduces the social work profession and its mission, purposes, principles, and values. Components of generalist practice with individuals, families, groups, communities and organizations are reviewed.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service

Explores the historical and current context of local and national social welfare policies and programs and their relationship to the social work profession. The historical and current context of local and national social welfare policies and programs and their relationship to the social work profession.

Carolina Core: GSS

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service

Social welfare services available to children and youth and the referral processes involved.

Social welfare services available to families, ranging from counseling services to specialized services for aged citizens.

Social welfare services available to women and minorities and the forces that shape these services.

Cross-listed course: WGST 306

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service, GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy

This course provides a framework for understanding social work and social justice issues with an emphasis on vulnerable populations in the areas of survival, protection, and promotion of human rights in China, India, the Middle East, Africa, and Central and South America.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Global Learning

This course will examine the grief and loss process that is part of everyday life. This course surveys the knowledge and skills of human service practice with people as they cope with life transitions.

An educationally focused community service experience and seminar that emphasizes socialization into the profession of social work.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service

Provides knowledge and skills necessary for generalist social work practice with individuals and families using person and environment, strengths, and resiliency perspectives with diverse populations.

Knowledge, values, and skills for social work practitioners to analyze the political and ideological factors and outcomes of policy development, implementation, evaluation, and advocacy.

Builds cultural competency through awareness, understanding, and skill necessary for proactive functioning in our diverse society with populations considered vulnerable and oppressed.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

To enhance students' understanding of theories of individual development across the lifespan through various perspectives and within different cultural and sociological contexts. This includes knowledge of biological, psycho-social, and spiritual development.

Foundational knowledge and skills for scientific inquiry and the use of quantitative and qualitative research to inform evidence-based practice.

This course provides students with foundational knowledge about forced migration and the institutions of humanitarian aid that address forced migration. Students will learn about global theories of forced migration, humanitarian aid policy, empirical studies of humanitarian aid, refugee resettlement, and displacement, and evaluate biographies and literature on forced migration.

An in-depth study of selected issues and social concerns related to being a generalist social worker. Content varies by title.

An initial supervised field education experience in a human service agency under the supervision of a field instructor.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service

Experiential Learning: Experiential Learning Opportunity

Requires permission of the department.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

A project-type study of selected issues, social concerns, and applications of behavioral implications for practice. May be repeated for credit when the topics covered or subject matter is different.

Knowledge, values, and skills essential for generalist social work practice with treatment and task groups across systems of all sizes. An emphasis is given to group practice interventions with diverse, vulnerable, and at-risk populations.

Foundational knowledge, values, and skills essential for generalist practice with larger systems, organizations, and communities.

Knowledge and skills embedded in values of social and economic justice for all people across systems of all sizes that are essential in generalist practice.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service, GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Examining how individuals and families are affected by, and affect, larger social systems.

Application of skills and theories taught in the classroom in a controlled and planned setting.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Internships

Further application of the generalist social work skills and theories taught in the classroom in a controlled and planned setting.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Internships

Taken with the field practicum, this seminar facilitates student's integration of generalist practice knowledge with practice in a field agency.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Internships

Competent generalist social work practice demands integration of a wide range of theories, knowledge, skills, and values. This course is designed to draw on all previous courses and to engage students in integrating and applying all that they have learned.

Study of special populations, settings, and/or problems encountered by social workers and other human service professionals, and interventions and skills for dealing with them. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Foundation for beginning health professions students to gain an understanding of the complexities of the health care system through experiential activities conducted in interprofessional teams and the importance of interprofessional collaboration in order to improve the system.

Cross-listed course: PUBH 678

Approaches for prevention of childhood obesity, using perspectives from public health, social work, exercise science, pharmacy, medicine, and behavioral nutrition. Training to teach diet/physical activity lessons in elementary school settings.

Cross-listed course: HPEB 679