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  • SW 6030: Social Work Practice III--Advanced Practice with Individuals

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): SW 6000 or acceptance into the Advanced Standing MSW Program.. Examines clinical approaches most often used with clients. Emphasizes the theoretical basis of treatment modalities and how to apply them in practice.
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  • SW 6040: Social Work Practice IV--Advanced Practice with Families and Groups

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSW Program. Builds on the skills and knowledge for generalist social work practice with an emphasis on advanced practice with small groups and complex family cases. Implements the planned change process to target workable intervention strategies. Identifies family and group problems such as scapegoating, manipulation, resistance, and how to solve those problems.
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  • SW 6050: Social Work Practice V--Advanced Practice with Organizations and Communities

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): SW 6300 or Acceptance into the Advanced Standing MSW Program. Analyzes multiple approaches social workers use to influence groups, organizations, communities, and systems. Examines concepts, theories, and models of macro level practice and skills for addressing complex practice and organizational situations.
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  • SW 6200: Human Behavior and the Social Environment

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSW Program. Teaches students critical perspectives, theories, and frameworks that describe the behavior of individuals, families, interpersonal and group relationships, communities, and social and political systems. Focuses on theories and knowledge related to biological, sociological, psychological, spiritual, and cultural processes as they affect development across the lifespan as well as well-being, challenge, and coping. Emphasizes the person-in-environment framework for understanding the reciprocal nature of interactions between micro, mezzo, and macro systems. Investigates varying social environment factors, including historical, social, racial, cultural, economic privilege and power, oppression, and marginalization that impact individuals, families, organizations and communities.
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  • SW 6250: Macro Systems and Social Impact

    3.00 Credits
    Utah Valley University

    Prerequisite(s): Admission to the MSW program. 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 and thinking to examine social problems within actionable parameters: identifying stakeholders and their relationships to power and influence; examining historical precedence and current policy; identifying causes, consequences, and reinforcing feedback loops; investigating existing interventions; and determining the gaps and opportunities for intervention within a system. Examines the social work profession utilizing an anti-oppressive lens and explores the values, principles, standards, laws, policies, and regulations that direct ethical social work practice on the macro level.
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  • 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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