CURRICULUM
The Curriculum of the School of Social Work builds on a foundation year that prepares each student for an Advanced Practice Methods Concentration in Clinical or Management and Community Organization (MACO). Options exist for a student to take a combination of these concentrations by choosing to make one primary and one secondary. Each student must also choose a specialization which focuses on a specific client population or service setting. Therefore, the advanced curriculum is a matrix with a practice method forming one dimension and a client population or setting forming the second. This matrix approach focuses student learning on the advanced professional roles and field of social work practice to be entered after graduation. CONCENTRATIONS | | | Specializations | Clinical | Maco | Aging | X | X | Families and Children | X | X | Health | X | X | Mental Health | X | X | Social Action & Comm. Development | | X |
CLINICAL
The goal of the Clinical Program is to educate a practitioner who works for improvement in the quality of life and enhancement of social functioning of individuals, families and small groups through direct service to them, and through work with organizations and communities that have a direct impact on clients. Clinical social workers are active in the promotion, restoration, maintenance and enhancement of the functioning of their clients and client systems, and the prevention of distress and provision of resources. The Clinical Curriculum includes both class and field instruction. The Clinical Curriculum is: SWCL 700 | Paradigms of Clinical Social Work Practice | 3 | SWCL 744 | Psychopathology | 3 | Choice of 2 | Electives* | 6 | Choice of 2 | Clinical Option** | 6 | | Social Policy course** | 3 | | Advanced Clinically-OrientedResearch Course** | 3 | SWCL 794, 795 | Clinical Field Instruction
(3 days per week, two consecutive semester beginning in the fall) | 12 | | | 36 Credits |
* one of these must fulfill the multi-cultural requirement if not fulfilled elsewhere.
** determined by specialization requirements. MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION (MACO)
The Management and Community Organization curriculum prepares students for a wide and diverse range of positions in the management of social welfare services, social planning, administration community organization, and community economic development. Both classroom courses and field instruction combine social work practice principles, value bases, ethical concerns and skills with technologies and concepts drawn from related disciplines. Management and Community Organization practitioners work at an organizational and inter-organizational level in order to plan, develop, organize, administer and evaluate programs of social services on behalf of populations in need of them. Advanced Standing students must have a year of human service experience before entering the MACO Concentration. The MACO curriculum is: SWOA 703 | Program Management | 3 | | SWOA 704 | Community Organization | 3 | Choice of 2 | MACO Option | 6 | Choice of 2 | Electives* ** | 6 | | Social Policy course ** | 3 | | Advanced MACO-oriented
Research Course | 3 | SWOA 794,795 | MACO Field Instruction
(3 days a week, two consecutive semesters beginning in the fall) | 12 | | | 36 Credits |
* one of these must fulfill the multi-cultural requirement if not fulfilled elsewhere.
** determined by specialization requirements. SECONDARY CONCENTRATION OPTION
It is also possible to elect a secondary concentration in conjunction with a primary one. A secondary concentration, considered a sub-concentration or a "minor", e.g. MACO/clinical or CLINICAL/maco is intended to give the student exposure to some of the content from the other concentration. Such a course of study may be most attractive to the student with many years of work experience prior to coming into the Master's Program or the student who is preparing to work in areas where a variety of social work functions are vested in one person. top .
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