Online BA in Social Work

Credit Hours: 3

Defines the profession of social work and describes its historical development. Provides foundation knowledge in social work values, professional ethics, and the history of social welfare and social services policy in the United States.

Credit Hours: 3

Introduction to basic interviewing and communication skills utilized in culturally sensitive, generalist social work practice. Emphasis on the development of self-awareness and skill development and on providing both didactic and experiential learning.

Credit Hours: 3

The second of three generalist social work practice courses; explicates a generalist perspective that focuses on the knowledge, values, skills and techniques appropriate for engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation with families and small groups.

Credit Hours: 3

An undergraduate level historical and descriptive review of federal and state social welfare programming, introduction to social welfare policy analysis, and the role of the social work profession in affecting change in social welfare policy.

Credit Hours: 3

Introduction to the design and implementation of quantitative and qualitative research methods appropriate to social work practice evaluation and program evaluation.

Credit Hours: 3

Third of three methods courses in the social work practice sequence using a generalist model focuses on knowledge, values and skills requisite for social work practice with various client systems. Course emphasizes development of knowledge and skills specific for assessment and intervention with organizations and communities.

Credit Hours: 3

The integration of classroom course content with the learning of practice skills in the field setting.

Credit Hours: 3

This is the Capstone course for the BASW. The purpose of this course is for students to demonstrate application of major social work content including social work research, social welfare policy, human behavior in the social environment, human diversity, and social work practice in the context of a field practicum setting.

Credit Hours: 3

Students who are being funded by the Child Welfare program are required to take this course. This course will provide a multi-dimensional exploration of trauma and the importance of trauma informed child welfare practice. Skill development focuses on building a strong knowledge base concerning trauma that will support ethical social work practice and an emphasis on strengths-based social work service delivery. This course also brings forward the concepts of trauma informed organizational practice.

Credit Hours: 3

This course provides an overview of forensic social work practice and theory. Additionally, it illustrates skills for working with diverse populations across the lifespan and across diverse settings, such as community, medical, school, child welfare, mental health and addictions, and juvenile and criminal justice settings.

Credit Hours: 3

Introduction to statistics and data analysis in social work and the helping professions. Covers descriptive statistics (univariate and bivariate), inferential statistics (estimation and significance tests) and data interpretation (causality and generalizability).

Credit Hours: 3

First of three generalist social work practice courses explicates a generalist perspective that focuses on the knowledge, values, skills, and techniques appropriate for engagement, assessment, intervention and evaluation with individuals and families.

Credit Hours: 3

Within a social systems framework and bio-psychosocial perspective, students learn empirically based theories which deal with life-span development and family dynamics. This course provides a theoretical foundation for micro-level generalist practice.

Credit Hours: 3

Course prepares students for generalist practice by equipping them with systems-oriented perspective on individual and community wellbeing. It emphasizes ethical and evidence-informed approaches to working with populations impacted by disparities in opportunity, access, and health. Using SDOH as an organizing framework, the course fosters analytical and communication skills essential for addressing human needs across micro, mezzo, and macro contexts.

Credit Hours: 3

Introduction to applied data analysis methods appropriate to research in social work practice evaluation and human services program evaluation.

Credit Hours: 1

This course provides structure and support to students as they complete the necessary university-based and agency-based onboarding tasks to secure an educationally focused and professionally supervised practicum placement in a community-based agency or program. Students must be enrolled in SWK 4311 during the semester prior to enrolling in SWK 4315 - Social Work Practicum I.

Credit Hours: 5

A structured, educationally directed experience in social work practice, provided under the supervision of a qualified social worker as practicum instructor.

Credit Hours: 5

A continuation of the educational experience in S WK 4315. In combination with Practicum Seminar II (S WK 4323), this course comprises the General Education capstone experience in social work.

Credit Hours: 3

Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders. Course emphasizes best practices in the areas of treatment and prevention of substance use disorders, and the strategic prevention framework. Cultural influences and issues important to special populations will be also reviewed.