Course Descriptions
Social Service (SSS)

Graduate Courses

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SSS 528: Human Sexuality
1 Credits

Examines the range of human sexual expression. Explores sexual issues and provides an overview of the social worker's role in counseling individuals with sex-related concerns.

SSS 531: Pharmacology
1 Credits

Provides an introduction to an understanding of the actions of drugs and discusses implications for social work practice.

SSS 533: Feminist Issues in Social Work Intervention
1 Credits

The position and status of women in contemporary American society as related to social work practice. The practices of oppression and discrimination presented as factors that foster powerlessness and vulnerability. The various groups which make up American womanhood are discussed.

SSS 536: Peace, Nonviolence, and War:Social Work and Social Justice Implications
3 Credits

Increases knowledge and understanding of the social worker's role in promoting peace and social justice. Examines causes and consequences of violence in its various forms. Students analyze social and economic factors within a framework of nonviolence and the principles of social and economic equity.

SSS 543: Delivery of Social Work Services in the Workplace
1 Credits

Designed for students to apply social work knowledge, values, and skills in occupational settings as well as to acquire new knowledge and skills specific to industrial social work.

SSS 545: An Introduction to the DSM-IV
1 Credits

Introduces students to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Although differential diagnosis is not covered, issues for social workers making diagnoses are addressed. Especially suitable for students in appropriate Foundation Year field placements.

SSS 547: Issues and Strategies in Serving Persons with Disabilities
1 Credits

After tracing the historical development of serving persons with chronic disabilities, students will develop a greater understanding of the roles and responsibilities that people with disabilities, their families, and social workers can play in shaping the future service delivery system and enhancing the quality of life.

SSS 548: Attachment Theory
1 Credits

This course provides an introduction to the conceptual framework of attachment theory as it pertains to new directions in social work policy, practice, research and social justice. It describes the evoluion of the theory from the work of Bowlby, Ainsworth, Main and others. The implications for prevention and treatment of psychosocial disorders in individuals , families, communities and society are presented. Attachment research predicts, with a 75% correspondence rate, attachment classifications that, without intervention, remain stable across the life span. Aggression and criminal behavior are understood as failure to evolve the reflective function or mentalization. Special emphasis is placed on the prevention of child maltreatment and criminal behavior.

SSS 551: Intor to School Social Work: Policy, Practice and Research
1 Credits

no description available

SSS 552: AIDS: Individual and Societal Implications
1 Credits

Provides the essential background information for students to respond appropriately in practice situations where patients or family members require services.

SSS 553: Basic Budgeting and Accounting for Social Workers
1 Credits

no description available

SSS 554: Homelessness: Individual and Societal Considerations
1 Credits

Students are made aware of the root causes of homelessness: the critical shortage of low-income housing, the problem of deinstitutionalization without mental health treatment and support in the community, the increasing scarcity of health care for the poor, and the economic factors and cutbacks in social programs which contribute to the feminization of poverty.

SSS 557: Catholic Social Thought and Contemporary Social Issues
1 Credits

Focuses on selected issues in Catholic social thought and its implementation through service and action. Participants will focus on contemporary social issues such as welfare reform, and analyze various positions from the perspective of the Social Encyclicals and the Pastoral Statements of the United States Catholic Bishops.

SSS 558: Principles of Fundraising
1 Credits

no description available

SSS 570: Diversity in a Mulitcultural Society
3 Credits

Utilizes strengths perspective to examine the resilience of populations-at-risk, particularly people of color, persons with disabilities, and gays and lesbians. Focuses on diversity in a global environment, including issues of discrimination, institutional racism, and economic deprivation. Intended to enhance/develop self awareness and sensitivity for a culturally competent social work practice.

SSS 571: Human Behavior & Social Environment I
3 Credits

Utilizes an ecological and systems perspective to examine the bio-psycho-social-spiritual human development across the life cycle. Examines normal development with a framework for the micro-mezzo, and macro theories. Emphasizes developing theories of strength and resilience, the impact of economic forces at the micro and macro levels.

SSS 572: Human Development and Psychopathology
3 Credits

Utilizes an ecological and systems perspective to focus on maladaptive behaviors and problems of living and coping. Seeks to critically analyze categorization of pathology. At the macro level, examines consequences of social and economic justice on the development and functioning of all human systems.

SSS 581: Social Welfare Policy and Services
3 Credits

Presents the foundations of social welfare policy and programs, their history in the United States, as well as basic theories and concepts of policy analysis. Also explores the role of the social work profession in promoting social change within the context of ongoing social policy debates.

SSS 582: Social Welfare Policy and Services II
3 Credits

Teaches students how to analyze social policy, to understand the legislative and budget processes and to develop and implement advocacy strategies to effect social policy change. The course is focused on effecting policy change with and for vulnerable and stigmatized populations and issues of power and oppression are considered throughout the semester.

SSS 584: Legislative Processes
1 Credits

The purpose of this course is to engage students in the American legislative process, exploring the effects of this broad process on social workers' daily direct practice activities. This course will focus on the basic structures of the American branches of govenment (executive and ligislative), their interrelationship, as well as on the private sector participants/advocates who also influence the policy making process. It is expected that students will develop a strong grasp of the process of a bill becoming law, from its conceptualization ot passage (or failure to pass). Students will also become better acquainted with the impact of these broad policy decisions on their own work with individual clients and agencies. The goal is not only for students to understand policy, but also that students gain competence to become active participants in carrying out and even affecting policy. Methods for mastering the course material will include attendance and summarization of Congressional hearnings, completion of required readings and quizzes, and class discussion. Recent social welfare policies (Child Abuse & Prevention Act; Head Start; TANF, etc.) will be used as case examples.

SSS 586: Policy Analysis
1 Credits

The purpose of this course is to better equip students with the knowledge and tools neccessary to critically evaluate federal social welfare policy and to underscore the importance of policy and program evaluation in their own direct practice settings. In this course, students will be introduced to the practice of policy in social welfare. They will gain knowledge of policy in the context of social work practice, management, advocacy, community orgainizing, and policy making. It is expected that students will develop a keen understanding of the mechanics of policy formation and analysis, as well as an ability to evaluate the outcomes of certain policies. For example, what are the unintended outcomes of a specific piece of legislation? How are certain popualtions adversely affected by the mandates of policy? Required assignments will include exploration of the legislative history of a bill/piece of legislation, utilization of Internet-based websites to understand background of legislation, and creation of one's own policy/program evaluation framework.

SSS 588: Policy Advocacy
1 Credits

The purpose of this course is to integrate broad federal policy mandates with students' abilities to advocate on behalf of clients, agencies, and communities. The complexities in translating policy to practice will be explored as well as the potential ethical difficulties that may accompany these policy to practice issues. Individual and agency level case examples each pertaining to recent social welfare legislation will be examined and discussed.

SSS 590: Social Work Research
3 Credits

Provides a basic understanding of the research process and methods used by social scientists. Students learn to develop a systematic approach to practice problems, to formulate specific research questions, and to select and interpret appropriate statistical techniques.

SSS 592: Social Work Research and Computer Lab
4 Credits

Utilizing both class and computer lab, provides a basic understanding of the research process and methods used by social scientists. Students learn to develop a systematic approach to practice problems, to formulate specific research questions, and to select and interpret appropriate statistical techniques.

SSS 605: Generalist Social Work Practice: Individual, Family and Groups
3 Credits

General lecture and class exercises provide the conceptual preparation for application of the generalist perspective to culturally competent social work practice with individuals, families, and treatment groups. Theory based models that follow generic social work processes provide the focus with individuals; models that integrate treatment approaches with family life cycle inform work with families; and generic group dynamics ground work with treatment groups. Prerequisites or co-requisites: 571, 572, 581; co-requisite: 673

SSS 606: Generalist Social Work Practice w/Groups,Organizations, & Communities
3 Credits

General lecture and class exercises emphasize the social work methods of intervening with mezzo groups, organizations, and communities for the purpose of social change. The focus of the course presents theories of groups, organizations and communities and offers skills in how social workers can be effective working with citizens, clients, boards of directors, committees and task forces. A number of ¿hands-on¿ problem solving experiences will be part of the course. Prerequisites or co-requisites: 571, 572, 581, 582, 570, 590, 605; co-requisite: 674

SSS 611: Child Welfare: Policy and Practice
3 Credits

Explores the history of societal and organizational responses to children and families at risk of child abuse and/or neglect. Blends policy and practice perspectives to study legal issues, service options, service continuum, and ethical concerns. Reviews the casework process related to delivery of services through mandated and voluntary child welfare programs. Encourages student awareness of and participation in policy debates to relevant House and Senate committees.

SSS 612: Child and Family Services
3 Credits

Focuses on current policies, laws, programs, and services that relate to families and children. Traces the historical development of the family and its function as a stabilizing force in society. Explores the characteristics of different practice settings that provide services to families and children, in relation to specific content areas, including family violence, divorce, reconstituted families, foster care, adoption, teen pregnancy, and single-parent families.

SSS 613: Social Services with Older Persons
3 Credits

Presents an overview of the aging process, issues affecting older persons, and society¿s response to them. Special problems faced by older persons are examined and various subgroups of the aged population are addressed.

SSS 614: Social Work in Health Care Settings
3 Credits

Designed to examine social work as a core profession in health care settings. Focuses on the historical foundation, status, and future directions of social work in health care. Draws on systems, self-efficacy, health beliefs, transpersonal, psychodynamic, role and interaction theories to prepare students for direct practice situations, identifying related personal and environmental risk factors, developing preventive and health promoting responses.

SSS 646: Long Term Care Aged/Elderly
3 Credits

Focuses on the needs, policies, and programs of services involved in long-term care for the aged in both community and institutional settings. Examines both formal and informal systems of care both within and outside of the institution.

SSS 653: Attachment Theory and Neurobiology: Implications for Social Work Practice and Policy
3 Credits

Prerequisites: SSS 571 and SSS 572.

SSS 654: Family Violence Across the Lifespan: Implications for Social Work Practice
3 Credits

Lecture Designed to provide information on various forms of family violence (child, spousal, and elder abuse) as well as to provide skills for effective interventions with victims or perpetrators of violence.

SSS 655: Social Work Response to Trauma
3 Credits

no description available

SSS 661: Spiritual Dimensions of Social Work Practice
3 Credits

Examines the spiritual/religious dynamic in social work practice, the service policies and value-ethical issues related to religion and society, and implications for service delivery under both nonsectarian and religious auspices.

SSS 662: Death
3 Credits

Confronting death may cause professionals discomfort in ways they have not been trained to identify. This course examines death and grief phenomenologically, and cross-culturally, through knowledge development and self explorations. Particular consideration of the fear of death and the effect of confronting one's mortality on a professional caregiver.

SSS 663: Treatment of Chemical Dependency
3 Credits

Presents different models of therapeutic intervention and modalities of treatment, covering processes from early identification through recovery and relapse prevention. Includes impact on spouse, young children, and adult children.

SSS 664: Long-Term Care of the Elderly
3 Credits

Focuses on the needs, policies, and programs of services involved in long-term care for older persons in both community and institutional settings. Examines both formal and informal systems of care both within and outside of institutions.

SSS 665: Theories and Models for Use in Health Care
3 Credits

This course provides the theoretical orientations and practical models to guide clinical social work interventions in diverse health settings. Through lectures, invited presentations, and course assignments, student will be able to apply effective interventions based on theories and models in the context of an illness prevention and control framework.

SSS 668: Health Care Policy, Advocacy and Decision-Making
3 Credits

Examines health care policy relating to services, funding streams, and historical development, and analyzes implications for social work practice. Focuses on providing skills to advocate for patients, institutions, agencies, and the profession. Addresses the role of social work in decision making through educating patients, their families, and the medical professions.

SSS 673: Foundation Year Field Instruction & Seminar I
3 Credits

Students are placed in field agencies under the supervision of qualified field instructors, where, consistent with a generalist practice model, they provide services to clients including work with the systems which impact service delivery. Concurrent with the practicum, and drawing from the co-requisite Generalist Practice courses, the seminar provides an opportunity for students to present cases, improve assessment and problem-solving techniques, and apply theory-based concepts to their field experience. Prerequiites or corequisites: 570, 571, 580; co-requisite: 605.

SSS 674: Foundation Field Instruction & Seminar II
3 Credits

Students are placed in field agencies under the supervision of qualified field instructors where, consistent with a generalist practice model, they provide services to clients including work with the systems which impact service delivery. Concurrent with the practicum, and drawing from the co-requisite Generalist Practice courses, the seminar provides an opportunity for students to present cases, improve assessment and problem-solving techniques, and apply theory-based concepts to their field experience. Prerequisite: 673; prerequisites or corequisites: 572, 582, 590; co-requisite: 606.

SSS 680: Essential Foundations for Advanced Graduate-Level Social Work Education
1 Credits

no description available

SSS 723: Psychodynamic Theory and Social Functioning
3 Credits

Provides a theoretical framework for normal personality development, as well as for pathological formation of ego defenses and their influence on social functioning. Traces the evolution of ego theory from its founding mothers and fathers to the more contemporary theorists. Prerequisites: 570, 571, 572.

SSS 724: Cognitive Behavioral Theory and Social Functioning
3 Credits

Traces the historical development of both behavioral and cognitive theories to their convergence into contemporary cognitive-behavioral theory and therapy, seeking to integrate concepts from both with the ecological perspective of human behavior and social functioning. Intended to enhance the interventive repertoire of the beginning social work practitioner with techniques from cognitive and behavioral approaches. Prerequisites: 570, 571, 572.

SSS 725: Transpersonal Theory and Social Functioning
3 Credits

Transpersonal theory recognizes spirituality and transcendental needs as intrinsic aspects of human nature, based on the principle that there are powerful forces within the psyche propelling us towards greater wholeness and integration beyond the ego. Introduces transpersonal theory as a means of integrating the spiritual and psychological in explaining and changing social functioning. Prerequisites: 570, 571, 572.

SSS 731: Social Work With Couples
3 Credits

Provides clinical theory and practice skills for social work with couples, addressed in terms of life passages and adult development, as well as pathology. Teaches appropriate interventions. Prerequisites: Foundation-year curriculum.

SSS 732: Social Work With Groups
3 Credits

Focuses on the group as the unit of attention for intervention. Attention to the philosophy, theory, and methods of working with people in groups. Emphasizes the role of the leader and strategies of intervention. Considers framework for practice with both task and treatment groups. Prerequisites: Foundation-year curriculum.

SSS 733: Supervision & Consultation Social Work
3 Credits

Presents an integrated approach to supervision within an interactional framework to examine underlying supervisory functions: administration, education, and support. Geared to building practice models for specific settings to meet the worker and client needs. Emphasis also on the organizational and mediating roles of the supervisor and on developing methods, tools, and skills appropriate to various adult learning styles. Consultation focuses on model construction, particularly for emerging roles in a variety of settings. Prerequisites: Foundation-year curriculum.

SSS 740: Ethical Issues in Contemporary Social Work
3 Credits

Drawing from philosophical and professional ethics, helps students develop skill in reflective and critical analysis of ethical dilemmas in social work practice. Considers purposes and limitations of codes of ethics. Presents a model for ethical decision making as a framework to consider issues such as self-determination and social responsibility, confidentiality and social control, life and death issues, societal responsiveness to the poor and disadvantaged and the privatization of welfare, organizational and professional values, and social justice and resource distribution. Prerequisites: Foundation-year curriculum

SSS 756: Evaluation of Social Work Practice
3 Credits

Introduces students to the basic theoretical and methodological concepts of practice evaluation. Topics include quantitative and qualitative assessment models, clinical measurement, single subject designs, clinical group designs, case studies, and statistical techniques. Prerequisites: Foundation-year curriculum.

SSS 757: Evaluation of Social Work Programs
3 Credits

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.

SSS 761: Drug Abuse: Public Health and Public Policy Considerations
3 Credits

Lecture Introduces students to policies and policy issues relating to drug abuse and its consequences on the lives of individuals, families and communities. Engages students in critical thinking about science versus ideology, the disease concept versus personal responsibility, public health versus public safety considerations, and individual autonomy versus personal responsibility. Explores ethical implications of mandatory treatment and reporting laws, the law on addiction as a disability, and drug abuse history as a criterion for exclusion from federal benefits. Introduces students to the national debate on the potential medical uses of drugs of abuse.

SSS 797: Reading and Research Social Work
1 Credits

Suited to the need of the individual masters students, credit arranged with the instructor and chair of the sequence in which the subject matter falls. Departmental Consent Required.

SSS 798: Reading & Research Social Work
2 Credits

Suited to the need of the individual masters students, credit arranged with the instructor and chair of the sequence in which the subject matter falls. Departmental Consent Required.

SSS 799: Reading & Research Social Work
3 Credits

Suited to the need of the individual masters students, credit arranged with the instructor and chair of the sequence in which the subject matter falls. Departmental Consent Required.

SSS 801: Clinical Social Work With Older Adults
3 Credits

Presents the diversities of the aging experience and its historical, and bio-psycho-social-spiritual, aspects. Emphasizes primary, secondary, and tertiary levels for effective practice with elderly clients. Examines major theories of aging and interventive strategies, with special attention to at-risk populations, especially older women and older minorities. Prerequisites: Foundation-year curriculum.

SSS 802: Clinical Social Work With Adults
3 Credits

Building on the first-year theoretical framework of ecological systems, the course intends to prepare students for advanced clinical practice with individuals in diverse populations. Practice skills are primarily rooted in the explanatory and change concepts of psychodynamic theory as applicable within a multicultural context. Prerequisites: Foundation-year curriculum.

SSS 803: Clinical Social Work With Adolescents and Young Adults
3 Credits

Prepares students for practice with the individual as she or he moves through the developmental stages of adolescence to young adulthood. Focusing on issues of identity formation and establishment of independence, the course presents psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and systemic approaches appropriate to a diverse population of young people. Prerequisites: Foundation year curriculum.

SSS 804: Clinical Social Work with Children
3 Credits

Prepares students for practice with the young child as the primary unit of attention for therapeutic intervention. Against the backdrop of developmental and family systems theories, psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral practice models incorporate techniques of play, drawing, storytelling, and activity. Prerequisites: Foundation-year curriculum.

SSS 821: Clinical Social Work with Families: Traditional Models
3 Credits

Begins with the major schools of family therapy (structural, strategic, solution-focused, multigenerational, object relations); contrasts traditional with contemporary family theories and then integrates theory with practice by use of an eclectic text and tapes of master therapists. Family therapy is provided to troubled families from literary works through role play. Prerequisites: Foundation-year curriculum.

SSS 822: Clinical Social Work with Families:Strengths-Based
3 Credits

Grounded in the strengths perspective, prepares students to empower the families of children-at-risk to prevent placement in foster care, residential or inpatient psychiatric treatment, and juvenile detention. Reflects both traditional social work in its emphasis on natural helping networks and work in the home and community, and contemporary solution-focused brief family therapy methods. Prerequisites: Foundation-year curriculum.

SSS 831: Advanced Policy Analysis
3 Credits

Builds on first-year course content on policy, community, and organization. Presents the analytic frameworks and "tools of the trade" employed by policy analysts and advocates. Students learn how to obtain, organize, and use relevant information to promote beneficial social change. Prerequisites: Foundation-year curriculum.

SSS 832: Management of Non-Profit Organization
3 Credits

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 833: Social Planning
3 Credits

The modular format presents each of the steps in the planning process, including the components of social planning, social problem and need, as well as asset and resource assessment, predicting the future, setting goals, making plans, and planning evaluation and feedback. Students are required to work in teams to apply many of the skill components that are present. Prerequisites: Foundation-year curriculum.

SSS 835: Community Organizing for Equitable Development
3 Credits

no description available

SSS 871: Advanced Field Instruction & Seminar: Clinical I
3 Credits

Students are placed in field agencies which provide them with supervised clinical practice experience. 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. Prerequisite: Foundation-year curriculum; prerequisite or co-requisite: 756, and advanced year theory and practice courses.

SSS 872: Advanced Field Instruction and Seminar: Clinical II
3 Credits

Students are placed in field agencies which provide them with supervised practice experience consistent with their chosen concentration. Concurrent with the practicum, the seminar, sectioned by concentration, prepares students in integrate skills learned in academic courses with practice in the field and provides opportunities for the sharing of student cases and/or projects. The seminar instructor directs the graduation assignment in which students implement the principles of practice or program evaluation. Prerequisites: 871 and 756, and advanced year theory and practice courses.

SSS 873: Advanced Field Instruction and Seminar: Combined I
3 Credits

Students are placed in field agencies which provide them with supervised experience in both clinical and 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. Prequisites: foundation year curriculum; prerequisites or corequisites: 756 or 757 and advanced year theory and practice courses.

SSS 874: Advanced Field Instruction & Seminar: Combined II
3 Credits

Students are placed in field agencies which provide them with supervised experience in both clinical and 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: 873 and 766 or 757; prerequisites or corequisites: advanced year theory and practice courses.

SSS 875: Advanced Field Instruction and Seminar: Macro I
3 Credits

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 876: Advanced Field Instruction & Seminar: Macro II
3 Credits

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 877: Advanced Field Instruction and Seminar: Health Care
3 Credits

Students are placed in field agencies which provide them with supervised practice experience consistent with their chosen concentration. Concurrent with the practicum, the seminar, sectioned by concentration, prepares students to integrate skills learned in academic courses with practice in the field. It provides opportunities for the sharing of student cases and/or projects. The seminar instructor directs the graduation assignment in which students implement the principles of practice or program evaluation. Prerequisites: Foundation year curriculum; prerequisite or co-requisite: 756, and advanced year theory and practice courses.

SSS 878: Advanced Field & Seminar Health Care II
3 Credits

Students are placed in field agencies which provide them with supervised practice experience consistent with their chosen concentration. Concurrent with the practicum, the seminar, sectioned by concentration, prepares students to integrate skills learned in academic courses with practice in the field. It provides opportunities for the sharing of student cases and/or projects. The seminar instructor directs the graduation assignment in which students implement the principles of practice or program evaluation. Prerequisites: Foundation year curriculum, 877 and 756; corequisites: advanced year theory and practice courses.

SSS 880: Organizational Theory and Change
3 Credits

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 882: Adult Learning Theories for Professional Education
3 Credits

Designed to familiarize students with adult learning theory and other theoretical approaches to learning and teaching. Emphasis on curriculum construction and instructional design as well as on the philosophy of higher education.

SSS 883: Seminar in Social and Behavioral Science Concepts
3 Credits

Concerned with the use and application of selected social science concepts and processes relevant to social work and the role of empirical data in theory building in these areas. Includes theoretical and empirical material basic to the social policy and clinical social work context of practice.

SSS 884: Seminar in Economic Concepts and Social Services
3 Credits

Students will learn core micro and macro economic principles and explore how to integrate economics and social work in theory, practice, and research. Content includes supply and demand, labor markets, poverty, and trade theories applied to contemporary issues and policies.

SSS 885: Theories of Administration
3 Credits

Examines theories of administration and critical variables for effective management and program change. Theories include those related to the functions of administration and leadership development. Prerequisite: 880.

SSS 886: Issues in International Social Development
3 Credits

Focuses on such international concerns as migration, refugees, disaster assistance, and adoption. Considers policies and programs to positively influence these problems.

SSS 890: Analysis and Critique of Social Policy Methods
3 Credits

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 911: Critique of Theories Influencing Clinical Social Work Practice
3 Credits

Critiques theories influencing social work practice with individuals, couples, families and small groups against the historical evolution of social work practice, foundations of social work knowledge, and contributions from other professions and disciplines.

SSS 913: Social Work Model Development
3 Credits

Guides students to construct a unique, theoretically framed, and empirically based model of practice. The model will reflect the transactional nature of person-in-environment, the mission and values of the profession of social work and will be aimed at the prevention, remediation, or strengthening of an issue or problem appropriate for social work intervention by a clinical social worker. Prerequisite: SSS 911.

SSS 914: Theory Construction and Model Development fot Macro Social Work Research
3 Credits

no description available

SSS 915: Clinical Social Work Preceptorship I
3 Credits

Two-semester individualized lab tutorials, designed to supplement the model construction seminars. Participants confer regularly with a clinical social work preceptor with demonstrated scholarship and special expertise, selected in collaboration with the model construction instructor from NCSSS faculty with demonstrated scholarship in the specialty area or from qualified social work scholars in the private sphere. (Students are responsible for expenses incurred with community preceptors.) Concurrent with 923 or 924 or 925, and permission of model construction instructor.

SSS 916: Clinical Social Work Preceptorship II
3 Credits

Two-semester individualized lab tutorials, designed to supplement the model construction seminars. Participants confer regularly with a clinical social work preceptor with demonstrated scholarship and special expertise, selected in collaboration with the model construction instructor from NCSSS faculty with demonstrated scholarship in the specialty area or from qualified social work scholars in the private sphere. (Students are responsible for expenses incurred with community preceptors.) Concurrent with 923 or 924 or 925, and permission of model construction instructor.

SSS 919: Seminar in Social Work Education I
3 Credits

Introduces the participants to the culture of the university at the administrative and academic interface, with particular reference to the professional school on the university campus. University governance and stresses on new faculty members and students on the university campus considered by way of preparing the social work educator to teach. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.

SSS 920: Seminar in Social Work Education II
3 Credits

In the second semester the context is the continuum of social work, education, associate level through doctoral study, under college or university auspices. Each area of content develops an understanding of curriculum building and change, an understanding of the issues in social work education, and continued self-appraisal with respect to the role of the teacher. Prerequisite: 919 or permission of instructor.

SSS 921: Social Work Education Laboratory
3 Credits

Provides opportunity for experience as a teacher in social work education. 921 focuses on curriculum development; participants may choose to develop a course and/or learn and demonstrate other aspects of teaching. 922 emphasizes the university teaching office; participants may elect a teaching experience. The choice of assignments, however, is individualized, building on what the participant brings in knowledge, experience, and career interests. Prerequisites or concurrent: 882, 919, 920, or permission of instructor.

SSS 922: Social Work Education Laboratory
3 Credits

Provides opportunity for experience as a teacher in social work education. 921 focuses on curriculum development; participants may choose to develop a course and/or learn and demonstrate other aspects of teaching. 922 emphasizes the university teaching office; participants may elect a teaching experience. The choice of assignments, however, is individualized, building on what the participant brings in knowledge, experience, and career interests. Prerequisites or concurrent: 882, 919, 920, or permission of instructor.

SSS 923: Psychodynamic Theory and Social Functioning
3 Credits

no description available

SSS 924: Cognitive Behavioral Theory and Social Functioning
3 Credits

no description available

SSS 925: Transpersonal Theory and Social Functioning
3 Credits

no description available

SSS 930: Classical/Grand Theories for Understanding the Social Environment
3 Credits

no description available

SSS 932: Contemporary Theory for Understanding the Social Environment
3 Credits

no description available

SSS 940: Philosophical Issues in Social Work Knowledge Building
3 Credits

Focusing on knowledge development for the social work profession, includes three content units: philosophical underpinnings of social work knowledge, nature of knowledge, and knowledge development issues in the social work profession.

SSS 944: Theoretical Framework for Ethical Decision Making and Knowledge Building
3 Credits

Designed to aid the student to become more effective in dealing with contemporary ethical issues in social work and to contribute to knowledge building for the profession. Provides a theoretical framework for ethical decision making as a point of departure to examine value and ethical issues in a systematic way and to contribute to the knowledge base of the profession.

SSS 945: Foundation Statistics and Research
2 Credits

no description available

SSS 946: Theories of Social Justice
3 Credits

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 947: Multivariate Statistics and Design
3 Credits

Presents principles of multivariate analysis and interpretation, including regression, analysis of variance and covariance, path analysis, logit and log linear models, factor analysis, and reliability coefficients. Applications discussed in relation to various research designs. Prerequisite: 501 or equivalent.

SSS 948: Multivariate Statistics and Design II
3 Credits

Presents principles of multivariate analysis and interpretation, including regression, analysis of variance and covariance, path analysis, logit and log linear models, factor analysis, and reliability coefficients. Applications discussed in relation to various research designs. Prerequisite: 501 or equivalent. Continuation of SSS 947.

SSS 950: Research Foundations: Introduction
3 Credits

Provides foundations of research measurement and the conceptual foundations of research design. Includes principles of data collection as well as an overview of methods. Emphasis on research methodology for use in knowledge development for the social work profession. Prerequisite or concurrent: 940.

SSS 953: Advanced Social Work Research
3 Credits

Builds on earlier course work in research methodology and statistical analysis as well as concentration coursework. Designed to enhance knowledge and skills in conducting social work research. Emphasizes qualitative and quantitative research methods, data collection procedures, and data analysis procedures appropriate for conducting research in clinical, policy, and administrative contexts. Section I : Clinical Section II: Policy

SSS 955: Qualitative Research Methodologies
3 Credits

Explores critical issues in qualitative research methods, including the philosophical underpinnings, ethical and socio-cultural considerations, and value stances. Focus is placed on connecting the epistemology of knowledge with methods and with the recognition that different research questions require different methods of appropriate research. Introduces the student to the use of computer software for the analysis and presentation of qualitative data.

SSS 956: Advanced Quantitative Research Methods
3 Credits

This course builds on the research foundation and multivariate statistics courses by extending the focus to various quantitative methods that are increasingly being used by Social Work researchers. The topics include advanced multiple regression and path analysis, logistic regression, log-linear models and multilevel modeling.

SSS 974: Independent Study in Clinical Social Work Theory I
3 Credits

The student may pursue an individually designed course of study in clinical theory under the direction of a member of the NCSSS faculty. Enrollment limited to NCSSS doctoral students with permission of the program chair.

SSS 975: Independent Study in Clinical Social Work Theory II
3 Credits

The student may pursue an individually designed course of study in clinical theory under the direction of a member of the NCSSS faculty. Enrollment limited to NCSSS doctoral students with permission of the program chair.

SSS 976: Independent Study in Clinical Social Work Theory III
3 Credits

The student may pursue an individually designed course of study in clinical theory under the direction of a member of the NCSSS faculty. Enrollment limited to NCSSS doctoral students with permission of the program chair.

SSS 977: Independent Study in Clinical Social Work Theory IV
3 Credits

The student may pursue an individually designed course of study in clinical theory under the direction of a member of the NCSSS faculty. Enrollment limited to NCSSS doctoral students with permission of the program chair.

SSS 978: Independent Study in Social Policy and Administration
3 Credits

The student may pursue an individually designed program of study in a recognized teaching facility, policy analysis center, or national organization concerned with social issues and social change. Enrollment limited to NCSSS doctoral students with permission of the program chair.

SSS 981: Seminar in Scholarly Writing for Social Work
1 Credits

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SSS 987: Reading and Research in Social Work
1 Credits

Suited to the need of the individual student and arranged with the instructor and chair of the sequence in which subject matter falls. Enrollment limited to NCSSS doctoral students only. Prerequisites: permission of instructor and approval of dean. Departmental Consent Required.

SSS 988: Reading and Research in Social Work
2 Credits

Suited to the need of the individual student and arranged with the instructor and chair of the sequence in which subject matter falls. Enrollment limited to NCSSS doctoral students only. Prerequisites: permission of instructor and approval of dean. Departmental Consent Required.

SSS 989: Reading and Research in Social Work
3 Credits

Suited to the need of the individual student and arranged with the instructor and chair of the sequence in which subject matter falls. Enrollment limited to NCSSS doctoral students only. Prerequisites: permission of instructor and approval of dean. Departmental Consent Required.

SSS 995: Master's Thesis
0 Credits

Any student writing a thesis must register for 995, 996.

SSS 996: Master's Thesis Guidance
0 Credits

Any student writing a thesis must register for 995, 996.

SSS 997: Dissertation Guidance
0 Credits

Students working on dissertations must register for Dissertation Guidance unless they are registered for full-time study. No credit is offered in terms of semester hours.

SSS 998: Dissertation Guidance
0 Credits

Students working on dissertations must register for Dissertation Guidance unless they are registered for full-time study. No credit is offered in terms of semester hours.