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Overview of emerging issues in social welfare. Topics including culture and diversity, social justice, privatization and emerging technologies in the field of social welfare.

Aids in understanding dynamics of strengthening communities through action. Covers skills and knowledge to promote and influence community change to overcome or prevent adversity such as domestic violence, teen-age pregnancy, inequality or problematic services delivery system. Introduces topics in applied social research and policy.

Study of theories and knowledge of human development across the lifespan within the wider context of a range of social systems.  Social systems examined include individual, family, group, organizational, and community in which people live.  The ways social sysstems promote or deter people in maintaining or achieving health and well-being are emphasized.

Examines aging from a broad perspective. Studies the causes and consequences of aging and its sociological and economic impacts. Prerequisite: PSY 12053 Principles of Psychology or SOC 10153 Social Thought or SOC 10453 Introduction to Sociology.

Effects of social policy on practice; social policy analysis; process of policy formulation as it relates to human services and other social welfare professions.

Identifies problems and issues that impact upon families in today's society. Provides strategies, programs and services for prevention, intervention and treatment.

Participation in comprehensive and validated educational and treatment program. Teaches how to guide families in establishing nurturing as a way of life and, thus improve family relationships. Hands-on experience with parents and children provides insight into family dynamics, knowledge of positive and effective parenting, and opportunity to monitor and evaluate progress. Participants may choose to facilitate the following groups: children (4-7, 8-12), adolescents, teen parents or adults.

Study of the function of marriage and family in contemporary American society, including the why of intimate relationships, couple/parent/child adjustment, three generational relationships, and the process of break-up and remarriage. CROSS LISTED WITH PSY 30654

Confronts subject of death from new and alternative perspectives. Explores attitudes of death and the dying process, rituals, theories and the social organization of death in many societies to gain knowledge in understanding feelings and attitudes toward death. CROSS LISTED WITH PSY 30954. Prerequisite: PSY 12053 Principles of Psychology or SOC 10453 Introduction to Sociology.

Examines backgrounds, needs and coping mechanisms of persons faced with family crises. Identifies resources for meeting crises such as abuse in the home, chemical dependency, unwed parenthood, divorce and remarriage, unemployment, long-term illness or disability and death of a family member.

Reviews basic research methods focusing on conceptual basis for experimentation. Includes basic design components such as control, sampling, data collection and analysis. CROSS LISTED WITH PSY 32253. Prerequisite: PSY 12053 Principles of Psychology or SOC 10453 Introduction to Sociology and MAT 32044 Statistics

Students travel to Chicago to learn about conditions of poverty, ethnicity in larger cities, race issues, everyday living for people who have been marginalized from mainstream society, communities in Chicago, social welfare system, and the social work by Jane Addams and her work at Hull House.

Designed around special theories, practices, or interests of an individual or group.

Introduction to descriptive and inferential statistical techniques used in the social sciences. Topics include data collection procedures, measures of dispersion, correlation designs, probability, statistical inference, and analysis of variance. Crosslisted with PSY 36000 and SOC 36000.

Primarily focuses on use of family systems perspective to examine treatment of families affected by substance abuse. Effects of substance abuse across the life span of the family considered. Additional topics include intervention and relapse prevention.

Covers physiological requirements of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins, minerals and water. Examines effects of abused substances on nutrition, nutritional adjustments necessitated because of abuse and effects of substance abuse on states of the life cycle. Evaluates nutritional factors on the development of chronic illness.

Develops working knowledge of fund development process. Considers grant preparation and writing, annual and special appeals, board and donor relations, and issues in fundraising. Examines federal, state and private funding options; differences between for-profit and not-for-profit organizations; and management of grants, inclusive of budgets and evaluations of funded programs/projects.