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  • SURV 4930: Senior Surveying and Mapping Capstone

    4.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): University Advanced Standing, Program Coordinator Approval, Completed and Approved Matriculation into any Surveying and Mapping degree program.. Provides an opportunity for a senior Surveying and Mapping student to participate in a significant and current research project which may advance the field of Surveying and/or Mapping. Includes independent study and laboratory/field work as necessary and must be approved and supervised by assigned faculty and technical mentors. Culminates in the preparation and presentation of a written paper describing the results of the research and/or completed project to project stakeholders, interested students, faculty, administration, the professional community, or the broader general audience.. Lab access fee of $45 applies.. Software fee of $75 applies.Course fee of $50 for materials applies.
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    General Education Course

  • SW 1010: Introduction to Social Work

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Introduces social work history, theory, and practice. Examines the relationship between policy and practice in the context of nine major fields of social work. Considers challenges faced by today's practitioners including concerns with policy, social justice, and oppression. Explores current career opportunities in the field.
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  • SW 2100: Human Behavior and the Social Environment I

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Admission into the BSW program. Presents major theoretical concepts about human development and environmental factors influencing development from the social and behavioral sciences and their applications to micro, mezzo, and macro social work practice. Explores intersectionality and how diversity shapes human experience and identity development. Focuses on the first part of the life cycle, the prenatal period through childhood.
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  • SW 2750R: Survey of Current Topics

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): (ANTH 1010G or PSY 1010 or SOC 1010G or SW 1010) and ENGL 1010 or ENGH 1005. Presents selected topic in Social Work and will vary each semester. Approaches subjects from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Requires a project demonstrating competency in the specific topic. May be repeated for nine credits toward graduation.
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  • SW 3000: Social Work Practice I Individuals

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the BSW program or declared major in Family Science and University Advanced Standing. Teaches students to apply the generalist social work Planned Change Model with individuals: engagement, assessment, goal setting/contracting, implementation, evaluation, and transition/ending. Prepares students to utilize core social work interpersonal communication skills to engage clients in a professional partnership with intervention and planning. Emphasizes the importance of cultural humility, principles of strengths-based and anti-oppressive social work practice, empirical research, and theories of human behavior and person-in-environment. Discusses ethical and professional demeanor and practice.
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  • SW 3100: Social Work Practice II Groups

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): SW 3000, Admission to the BSW program, and University Advanced Standing. Teaches students to apply the generalist social work Planned Change Process with families and groups: engagement, assessment, goal setting/contracting, implementation, evaluation, and transition/ending. Introduces group and family development and the theory and models of social work practice with groups and families. Prepares students to utilize group leadership and family communication skills necessary for research-informed practice. Emphasizes ethical and anti-oppressive practice.
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  • SW 3200: Social Work Practice III

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): SW 3000, SW 3100, Admission into the BSW program, and University Advanced Standing. Corequisite(s): SW 4830. Applies the social work Planned Change Model (engagement, assessment, goal setting/contracting, implementation, evaluation, and transitions/ending) to community and organizational macro systems. Utilizes systems theory to examine macro social problems. Explores the values, principles, standards, laws, policies, and regulations that direct ethical social work practice on the macro level, including within communities and organizations.
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  • SW 3400: Human Behavior and the Social Environment II

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): SW 2100, Admission into the BSW program, and University Advanced Standing. Presents major theoretical concepts about human development and environmental factors influencing development from the social and behavioral sciences and their applications to micro, mezzo, and macro social work practice. Explores intersectionality and how diversity shapes human experience and identity development. Focuses on the second part of the lifecycle, adolescence through older adulthood.
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  • SW 3500: Social Welfare Policies and Services

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Admission into the BSW program and University Advanced Standing. Analyzes current social policy within the context of historical and contemporary factors that shape policy. Examines major social forces and institutions as they relate to and determine social policy emphasizing social welfare services in an industrialized society. Evaluates social welfare frameworks in light of the principles of social and economic justice. Identifies effect of social policy on generalist social work practice.
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  • SW 3510: Global Social Work

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2010 with a C+ grade or higher, SW 1010, and University Advanced Standing. Investigates ways in which micro and macro skills can be integrated via a social development model to address social welfare issues in international settings. Includes the development of interventions beginning at the community level and moving toward global as well as individual practice. Focuses on the enhancement of practice knowledge and skills in program design, development, implementation and evaluation. Addresses basic resources such as food, shelter, potable water and sanitation, as well as sustainable economic development, inter-ethnic conflict, global indebtedness, ethnoconscious organizational development, and empowerment/conscientization as a method of intervening in social challenges.
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