This course introduces students to the history and contemporary context of the social work profession, including generalist practice and the role of advocacy. It emphasizes responses to current needs and changing contexts.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service

This course introduces students to the historical and current context of social welfare policies and programs in the United States, including examination of social inequalities and the processes of social policy development.

Carolina Core: GSS

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service

This course introduces the context for social work with children, youth, and families as well as specific theories, policies, programs, and services. Areas examined include antipoverty policies and programs, child welfare, education, behavioral health, healthcare, disabilities, and juvenile justice.

This course introduces students to the context for social work with older adults, as well as specific theories, policies, programs, and services. Areas examined include the aging process, health and wellness, behavioral health, sexuality, work and retirement, bereavement, living arrangements and housing options, and social programs and policies targeting older adults.

This course introduces anti-oppressive theoretical and applied approaches to understand and address intersections of gender and racial inequality. Social welfare policies and services available to women in contexts such as criminal justice, behavioral health, child welfare, and the military are examined.

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

This course introduces students to global dimensions of social inequality, beginning with the historical roots of global social inequality and moving through contemporary themes relevant to international social work practice from an anti-colonial perspective. Topics examined include human rights, gender-based violence, global health, climate change, and immigration/displacement.

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.

This course introduces students to the context and mission of social work. It emphasizes the interactions between personal and professional values, ethical and professional behavior, and beginning engagement and interpersonal skills.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service

This course introduces students to engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation with individuals and families. It includes specific models and techniques of practice with an emphasis on managing barriers to change, client strengths, and understanding diversity and difference in practice.

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

This course focuses on theories for understanding individual, family, and group behavior to better serve clients across settings. It emphasizes diversity, difference, and the advancement of human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.

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

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.

This course introduces students to engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation with treatment and task groups. It includes specific models and techniques of practice with an emphasis on group practice with diverse populations across practice settings.

This course introduces students to engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation with organizations and communities. It includes specific models and techniques of practice with an emphasis on diversity, difference, and the advancement of human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.

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

This course focuses on theories for understanding large social systems to better serve clients across settings. It emphasizes diversity, difference, and the advancement of human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice.

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.

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.