• SW 6300: Social Welfare Policy and Analysis

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSW program. Teaches students to identify the impacts of historical and current social policies on individual, family, and community well-being, human rights, social and economic justice, and structural oppression. Analyzes the role of governments, and the private and non-profit approaches to social policy and service formulation, implementation, and evaluation. Examines major social forces and institutions as they relate to and determine social welfare policy and welfare services in the United States. Teaches students how to advocate for policy that ensures that resources, rights, and responsibilities are distributed equitably.
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• SW 6320: Social Work Practice with Diverse Populations

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): SW 6000. Emphasizes the social work profession's commitment to cultural humility, anti-oppression, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and advancing social, economic, and environmental justice. Explores how intersectionality (including, but not limited to age, social class, culture, disability and ability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, immigration status, nationality, religion, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, and tribal sovereign status) determines experiences of power, privilege, and marginalization and shapes people's life experiences. Prepares students to practice social work reflexively in congruence with principles of anti-oppressive practice and to challenge dominant norms and world views that work to marginalize persons. Requires significant self-reflection to understand one's unique positionality as a social work practitioner.
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• SW 6400: Social Work Research Methods

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSW Program. Overviews social work research including the empirical research process and quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Prepares students to conduct ethical, responsible, and diverse social work research and/or evaluation on the macro, mezzo, and micro levels. Teaches critical analysis of scholarly literature and application of research in social work practice. Includes the importance of practice and program evaluation as social work research. Educates on effective oral and written presentation of research.
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• SW 6407: The Social Work Profession and Ethical Practice

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSW Program. Provides an overview of the NASW Code of Ethics. Emphasizes the application of the Code to social work practice situations among various client systems and populations. Addresses the relationships between the Code and the client's basic legal rights.
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• SW 6490: MSW Advanced Standing Bridge Course

  4.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into the MSW Advanced Standing program. Supplements the knowledge, skills, and values foundation developed in participants' BSW programs. Reviews content learned at the baccalaureate level and material that will be helpful in preparing students for the concentration year of the MSW program. Prepares MSW students to transition from the foundation year to the advanced concentration courses. Addresses topics necessary for advanced MSW- level practice and to support effective and ethical micro- and macro-level interventions. Covers key content addressed in SW foundation courses within the BSW program. This course is open to Advanced Standing students only.
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• SW 6491: MSW Advanced Standing Skills Course

  4.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into the MSW Advanced Standing program, SW 6490. Develops students' applied skills in Social Work practice. Integrates foundational social work approaches to practice, such as empowerment, strengths-based, and collaborative/person-centered skills. Assures that incoming Advanced Standing students have mastered foundational competencies in social-work practice skills with various types of human systems. Prepares MSW students to transition from the foundation year to the advanced concentration courses. Open to Advanced Standing students only.
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• SW 6500: Social Work Practice with Substance Related and Addictive Disorders

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): SW 6000 or acceptance into the Advanced Standing MSW program.. Teaches how to reduce or eliminate the detrimental impact of substance use disorders at multiple levels, such as families, groups, organizations, and communities. Teaches the knowledge and skills that assist in reducing and eliminating addiction. Enables students to identify, assess, and evaluate those struggling with substance abuse and dependency throughout the life span and how to intervene when necessary.
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• SW 6530: Psychopharmacology

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Admission to MSW program. Addresses principles of nervous system function with emphasis on communication between nerve cells. Focuses on therapeutic drugs as well as drugs of abuse to include mechanisms of action and behavioral effects. Teaches content on dynamics of addiction within a pharmacological context.
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• SW 6610: Spirituality in Social Work

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Admission to MSW program. Addresses a theistic model for social work clinical practice. Examines various religious and spiritual world views and their application to counseling and psychotherapy. Emphasizes the need for increased sensitivity and competence in working with clients for whom faith-based interventions are desired.
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• SW 6620: Family Therapy

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): SW 6000. Introduces a skills-based course in the field of family therapy. Trains prospective clinicians to work with families from a systems focus. Reviews the history of family therapy and the predominant models of the field. Emphasizes ethical and cultural issues in the realm of family therapy.
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