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EDSC 530 - Teaching for Conceptual Development in Science
Three hours.
3 Credits
The course connects insights from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and learning theory learning experiences. The emphasis will be on those approaches that employ indirect teaching strategies and cast the teacher in the role of a facilitator of students’ conceptual development.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
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EDSC 553 - Science in the Secondary School Curriculum
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will focus on the objectives, curricula, methods, strategies and materials, evaluations and teacher preparation relative to the teaching of science in the secondary schools in the United States. This course will provide a historical perspective, assess and interpret current practices and trends, and anticipate future emphasis in secondary school science programs in this country.
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EDSC 554 - Science in the Secondary School Curriculum I: Matter and Energy
Three hours.
3 Credits
The course promotes in-depth study of science content by exploring the interdisciplinary nature of the crosscutting concepts of Energy and Matter and Systems and System Models. Students will reconceptualize how to best teach science in ways that promotes conceptual development.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL
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EDSC 555 - Science in the Secondary School Curriculum II: Explaining and Predicting Change
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course promotes in-depth study of science content by exploring the interdisciplinary nature of the crosscutting concepts of Structure and Function and Stability and Change. Students will reconceptualize how to best teach science in ways that promotes conceptual development.
Prerequisite(s) EDSC 554
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered SPRING
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EDSC 620 - History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course explores key issues in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science and provides students with a basis for critical analysis of science education policy documents (i.e., current national standards) and curricula.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
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EDSC 621 - Planning, Developing and Evaluating the Science Curriculum
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course explores all aspects of K-16 science curriculum development. This includes exploration of educational philosophies that undergird science curricula and curriculum design models, designing needs assessments, translating needs into curriculum materials, supporting the implementation and selecting appropriate evaluation strategies.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
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EDSC 630 - Methods of Concept Development in Science Education
Three hours.
3 Credits
The course draws on learning theory and applies ideas about how learners acquire concepts to the teaching of science. Students in this course apply theoretical principles to the design and evaluation of lessons that facilitate concept acquisition in science.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
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EDSC 641 - Practicum in Science Education
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course requires the design, development and implementation of a science education intervention at the level of the student’s practice. Students will be supervised at all stages of the intervention and will share experiences in a seminar setting.
Prerequisite(s) EDSC 530 and EDSR 517
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
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EDSC 650 - Professional Development and Practice of Science Teachers
Three hours.
3 Credits
This seminar will examine the issues concerning the professional development of teachers. The research literature on teacher cognition and practice will be used as a basis for developing effective approaches to professional development in science education.
Prerequisite(s) EDSM 610 , EDSM 620 , EDSM 621 , EDSM 630 , ASLS 601 , ASLC 601 , or permission from instructor.
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
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EDSC 651 - Seminar: Current Topics and Trends in Science Education
Three hours.
3 Credits
This seminar course covers a variety of current and cutting-edge topics in science education practice, research and theory. The course provides an opportunity for students to develop skill in conceptualizing and writing scholarly papers.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
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EDSC 660 - Special Topics in Science Education
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course provides opportunity for individual exploration of issues in science education. Participants will identify an issue and undertake an exploration of the literature relevant to that issue. A literature review is the mode of assessment for the course.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
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SCED 567 - Strategies in Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Science Curriculum & Instruction in Elementary/Middle School Science Education
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course provides illustration and analysis of mathematics for problem solving in elementary/middle school science.
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SCED 573 - Review of Research in Instruction in Elementary/Middle School Science Education
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course acquaints students with historic and recent information from theory and research on teaching and learning science in grades K-8 and engages students in methods and materials for instruction that such information suggests.
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SCED 574 - Review of Research in Instruction in Middle/Secondary School Science Education
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course acquaints students with historic and recent information from theory and research on teaching and learning science in grades 6-12 and engages students in methods and materials for instruction that such information suggests.
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SOWK 501 - Generalist Social Work Practice
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is the first course in the methods sequence and introduces students to the profession of social work and the methods of social work practice. The course explores historical developments that shaped the profession and techniques of generalist practice. The course introduces theories that provide the basis for social work interventions and values and ethics that undergird professional social work practice.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 503
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SOWK 502 - Agency and Neighborhood Development in Poor Urban Communities
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is the second in the methods sequence and builds on the generalist practice framework. Social work practice with urban communities and organizations is the major focus. Community organizing and social planning provide the frame of reference for skills development.
Prerequisite(s) SOWK 501 and SOWK 503
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 504
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SOWK 503 - Foundation Field Practicum I
3 Credits
Students are assigned to an approved social service agency 16 hours per week under the supervision of an experienced social work professional. Field placements provide students the opportunity to integrate social work theory within an ethical framework and apply skills within an agency setting and urban community context. The field setting will enable students to develop a greater respect for diversity and practice with populations at risk, to utilize critical thinking and problem solving, and to develop comfort in the professional role.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 501
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SOWK 504 - Foundation Field Practicum II
3 Credits
Students are assigned to an approved social service agency 16 hours per week under the supervision of an experienced social work professional. Field placements provide students the opportunity to integrate social work theory within an ethical framework and apply skills within an agency setting and urban community context. The field setting will enable students to develop a greater respect for diversity and practice with populations at risk, to utilize critical thinking and problem solving, and to develop comfort in the professional role.
Prerequisite(s) SOWK 501 and SOWK 503
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 502
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SOWK 505 - Life Course Development and Issues (HBSE I)
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the major social science theories that inform the social work profession’s understanding of human behavior from a social systems perspective. Development across the life span is conceptualized as the interplay between nature and nurture where biological and psychosocial risk influence individual resiliency and environmental competence.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 506 - Urban Organizations, Neighborhoods & Communities (HBSE II)
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course emphasizes several aspects of macro practice within an ecological perspective. Students learn how to assess characteristics, dynamics, strengths, and problems of human service and community-based organizations, service delivery systems, and urban communities. An ecological systems framework together with a developmental approach is used to provide an interactional understanding of human behavior.
Prerequisite(s) SOWK 505
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 507 - Social Welfare and Urban Economics
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course explores historical dynamics of class, race, and other oppressions impacting U.S. social welfare policy. It analyzes groups’ struggles for empowerment directing community action toward urban injustices. Students become familiar with political strategies, organizational tools and social work values effectuating social change.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 508 - Organizational Policy and Leadership in Human Service Programs
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will focus on the purpose, development, policies and functions of human service organizations within the urban context. Emphasis will be placed on organizational history, theoretical frameworks for human services management, budgeting and fiscal management, cultural competence, and leadership skills.
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SOWK 509 - Chemical Dependency Clinical Assessment & Treatment
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is focused on learning about alcohol and other drug abuse (AODA) and substance use disorders (SUDs)-serious social and behavioral problems that continue to plague the U.S. and many other countries. This will equip students to be aware of, and understand, the variety of prevention, early intervention, treatment and rehabilitation roles available to MSW-level practitioners involved in understanding, reducing and ameliorating problems associated with AODA and SUDs. Throughout the course special emphasis will be placed on achieving AODA and SUD competencies as they relate to social work values and ethics, and diversity.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 510 - Research and Urban Social Problems
Three hours.
3 Credits
The social work research curriculum is designed to help students develop into effective practitioners/researchers. The course includes content on ethical standards of scientific inquiry, research design for qualitative ad quantitative research, analyses and reporting, practice evaluation, and the utilization of research. Students will critically review research reports on urban social problems in the media and professional journals.
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SOWK 600 - Spirituality, Religions, and the Helping Tradition
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is offered to aid the development of culturally competent practitioners who will be critically reflective of and respectfully responsive to the diversity of religious and spiritual values, ethics, and principles that contribute to the world views of those with whom they work. It explores the role of spiritual and religious perspectives in supporting or impeding individuals, families, and group strengths as well as its interaction within structural systems.
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SOWK 601 - Psychopathology and Clinical Intervention
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to acquaint students with the theoretical and clinical practice of diagnosing mental disorders. Students will become acquainted with the DSM V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition along with the text Strengthening the DSM, by Garcia and Petrovich). As the primary texts a descriptive approach to mental health diagnosis is offered with a focus on work within the urban context. Case studies representing the major mental disorders will serve as the tool for developing treatment planning and clinical intervention.
Prerequisite(s) All SOWK Foundation Curriculum Courses
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 603
Offered FALL
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SOWK 602 - Social Work Practice with Urban Black Families
Three hours.
3 Credits
This advanced practice course will expand the development and application of empowerment and strengths-based interventions for the purpose of creating alternative African-centered healing models for practice with African/Black American families. The course will combine a historical overview of African/Black American families with an emphasis on the obstacles they encounter as threats to healthy development and family functioning. Special attention is devoted to unraveling the effects of African cultural legacies, slavery, and institutional racism on urban Black family life.
Prerequisite(s) All SOWK Foundation Curriculum Courses or Advanced Standing Status, SOWK 601 , SOWK 603 .
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 604
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SOWK 603 - Concentration Field Practicum III
6 Credits
The Concentration Field Practicum is intended to help students develop expanded knowledge, values, and skills in their area of concentration. Students are assigned to an approved social service agency under the supervision of an experienced professional for three full days per week per semester. The focus of the concentration practicum is to enable students to integrate the advanced level of knowledge and skills learned in concentration practice methods courses into their field internship experiences. Concentration Field Practicum courses SOWK 603 and SOWK 604 are taken in consecutive semesters starting in the fall semester.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 601
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SOWK 604 - Concentration Field Practicum IV
6 Credits
The Concentration Field Practicum is intended to help students develop expanded knowledge, values, and skills in their area of concentration. Students are assigned to an approved social service agency under the supervision of an experienced professional for three full days per week per semester. The focus of the concentration practica is to enable students to integrate the advanced level of knowledge and skills learned in concentration practice methods courses into their field internship experiences. Concentration Field Practicum courses SOWK 603 and SOWK 604 are taken in consecutive semesters starting in the fall semester.
Prerequisite(s) All SOWK Foundation Curriculum Courses or Advanced Standing Status, SOWK 601 , SOWK 603 .
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 602
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SOWK 608 - Organizational Policy & Leadership In Human Services
This course will focus on the purpose, development, policies and functions of human service organizations within the urban context. Emphasis will be placed on organizational history, theoretical frameworks for human services management, budgeting and fiscal management, cultural competence, and leadership skills.
Prerequisite(s) SOWK 507
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 610 - Evaluation Research of Urban Social Problems, Services, & Interventions
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course further develops the use of research knowledge and skills learned in undergraduate programs or in the foundation research course. The primary goals of the course are to evaluate research findings relevant to urban problems and practitioners’ concerns, use the scientific research methods to answer research questions relevant to practice and policy, and collect and analyze data and present research findings, with particular application to program evaluation.
Prerequisite(s) SOWK 510
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 620 - Urban Social Work Practice with the Aged and their Families
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with specialized knowledge necessary for advanced social work practice with urban older adults and their families, especially African Americans. Case management and clinical interventions with vulnerable and oppressed client/client families will form the basis of the course. Students will sharpen their skills in advanced clinical bio-psychosocial, mental health and other types of assessments.
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SOWK 621 - Social Forces Affecting Older Adults and their Families
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will take a comprehensive look at the effects of social forces on the welfare of older urban people of color, their families and communities. These social forces include: crime, violence, underground economies, misogyny, inadequate housing, incarceration, health disparities, the long term impact of unequal educational opportunities, environmental risk factors and continuous racial oppression. Current models used in urban settings to address these social forces and culturally appropriate interventions toward systems and individual behavioral change will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s) All SOWK Foundation Curriculum Courses or Advanced Standing Status, SOWK 620
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 622 - Coping with Losses and Grief
Three hours.
3 Credits
In this course, students will examine the range of losses elders experience during late adulthood such as: death of family members and friends; loss of a role in the family and/or their caregiver, loss of security in their environment, loss of a sense of dignity in their community, loss of mobility and social functioning and interaction, loss of contact with relatives due to separation and/or divorce. Social theories and best practice models to address these types of losses will be explored.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 623 - Implications of Intergenerational Issues for Urban Older Adults
Three hours.
3 Credits
This seminar will utilize an intergenerational perspective as it focuses on: publicly and privately funded intergenerational programs, grandparents raising grandchildren, and elder abuse. The course will facilitate a joint beneficial activity for students to apply program development and evaluation knowledge to urban agencies that provide services to community residents of all ages.
Prerequisite(s) All SOWK Foundation Curriculum Courses or Advanced Standing Status
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 630 - Urban Child Welfare
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to prepare students with the knowledge, ethics, and skills for effective practice in the field of urban child welfare. The course will explore the history, evolution, and current status of child welfare policies, the service continuum provided to families and children, and the socio-cultural context of child welfare practice. Emphasis will be placed on culturally competent assessment, intervention, and evaluation strategies as their relevance to poor, urban, and African American families and communities.
Prerequisite(s) All SOWK Foundation Curriculum Courses or Advanced Standing Status
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 631 - Child Neglect and Abuse
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course presents an examination from historical and contemporary perspectives the medical, legal, psychosocial, and cultural aspects of child maltreatment. A variety of theoretical frameworks will be explored as they guide an understanding of the societal, familial and community dynamics that engender child neglect, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Specific attention will be paid to cultural strengths and community assets that prevent child maltreatment and promote healthy psychosocial development of children and families.
Prerequisite(s) All SOWK Foundation Curriculum Courses or Advanced Standing Status, SOWK 630 .
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 632 - Juvenile Delinquency: Prevention, Development & Intervention
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to provide an in-depth understanding of the nature and extent of juvenile delinquency and its impact within the juvenile justice system. The role of social workers in the juvenile justice system will be explicated related to practice with urban individuals, families and communities. Prevention, development, and intervention approaches will be emphasized in the course.
Prerequisite(s) All SOWK Foundation Curriculum Courses or Advanced Standing Status
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 640 - Social Work in Urban Schools
Three hours.
3 Credits
This seminar is the first of three courses in the School Social Work Concentration. It introduces social work roles, core principles, concepts, and techniques which underlie generalist social work practice in school settings. The course explores practice models used by school social workers and helps students understand the unique role of school social workers in the lives of children. Emphasis will be on the development of knowledge and competencies with urban populations.
Prerequisite(s) All SOWK Foundation Curriculum Courses or Advanced Standing Status
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 641 - Schools in Communities
Three hours.
3 Credits
This advanced course is an opportunity for critical analysis of the ecological systems model so widely utilized in the social work profession. It explores the relationship between schools and their communities with particular emphasis on the role of the community in the learning, culture, and extra-curricular activities of the school. The role of children and youth as members of the community, and their responsibility as citizens, will be a central theme for helping social workers to develop community models to improve public schools and the quality of life for urban children and youth attending them.
Prerequisite(s) All SOWK Foundation Curriculum Courses or Advanced Standing Status, SOWK 640
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 642 - Urban Social Work & Special Education
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course offers a unique examination of social work practice in school settings with special emphasis on special education. The course will explore the historical, legislative (ADA/Section 504 inclusion laws), and litigation history of special education, as well as models, theories, and philosophies that provide the basis for special education practice. The course will also provide an in-depth look at tools that social workers have available to them as school social workers in practice with the urban school population with special education needs and issues.
Prerequisite(s) All SOWK Foundation Curriculum Courses or Advanced Standing Status, SOWK 640
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 643 - Popular Youth Culture
Three hours.
3 Credits
The course undertakes a critical analysis of problems facing urban youth and the development of innovative solutions that lead to youth empowerment. Innovative prevention, intervention and treatment approaches to bridge gaps between youth, their families, communities and society at large are prescribed as models for engaging urban youth and embracing popular youth culture.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 650 - Social Work Practice in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course teaches practice models and multi-level methods of intervention for general health promotion and prevention in public health social work practice with urban populations. Examples of topics covered in the course include: promotion screening and early intervention, child health and safety; promotion of healthy aging; violence prevention (domestic, youth), and environmental health risks.
Prerequisite(s) All SOWK Foundation Curriculum Courses or Advanced Standing Status
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 651 - Epidemiology
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course presents a comprehensive review of the distribution and determinants of disease in human populations and the application of epidemiological and bio-statistical procedures to understanding the occurrence and control of conditions such as infections and chronic diseases, mental disorders, community and environmental health hazards, and geriatric problems. The course introduces epidemiologic definitions, a review of vital statistics and other sources of public health data, methods for calculating distributions, behavior of diseases, sampling methods, study designs, and measurement outcomes.
Prerequisite(s) All SOWK Foundation Curriculum Courses or Advanced Standing Status
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 652 - Maternal and Child Health Macro Practice, Programs and Policies
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course provides an overview of maternal and child health including history, legislation, key public health issues, health and social welfare policies and programmatic responses to such issues as maternal and infant mortality, child and adolescent health, immigrant health, male reproductive health, and special needs of children and their families. Program and policy development and familiarity with various professional roles in addressing public health problems impacting children and families will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s) All SOWK Foundation Curriculum Courses or Advanced Standing Status
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 653 - Public Health Policy, Urban Health Services and Planning
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the formulation and implementation of health policy in the U.S. health care system. Emphasis is on the application of analytical contributions from health economics, health services research, and other policy-related disciplines to current issues in urban health care delivery, organization, and financing.
Prerequisite(s) All SOWK Foundation Curriculum Courses or Advanced Standing Status, SOWK 650 .
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 654 - Socio-historical Impact of HIV/AIDS in African American Families: A Social Justice Approach
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course utilizes historical trauma theory as the main framework to address the human rights, cultural, social, epidemiologic, political, psychological, economic, public health, and public policy dimensions of HIV/AIDS throughout the African diaspora, including urban communities in the United States. Special attention is given to addressing micro-epidemics and at-risk populations; women, marginalized groups, LGBT communities, aging, intimate partner violence, rural and African communities and the relationship to substance abuse.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 670 - Spirituality, Religions, and the Helping Tradition
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is offered to aid the development of culturally competent practitioners who will be critically reflective of and respectfully responsive to the diversity of religious and spiritual values, ethics, and principles that contribute to the world views of those with whom they work. It explores the role of spiritual and religious perspectives in supporting or impeding individuals, families, and group strengths as well as its interaction within structural systems.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 680 - Clinical Assessment & Treatment of Addictive Behaviors
Three hours.
3 Credits
The course will provide students with the skills to engage in clinical social work practice with addicted populations. There will be a focus on the development of addiction practice competencies that are associated with positive treatment outcomes including addiction screening, assessment, education, and treatment services. Emphasis will be placed on the development of substance abuse clinical skills.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 681 - Ethics in Social Work Practice with Addictions
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course explores the many actual and potential ethical issues inherent in the social work profession. Key areas of inquiry will include ethical issues in the social work practice such as boundaries and multiple relationships, confidentiality, client and practitioner rights and responsibilities, professional relationships and credentialing/regulating agencies. A specific focus will be on ethical issues relevant to working with addicted populations, including the impact of federal confidentiality regulations and working with mandated client populations. This course was designed to meet the requirement of the Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists for applicants seeking licensure or certification.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOWK 682 - Psychopharmacology and the Neurobiology of Addiction in Social Work Practice
Three hours.
3 Credits
The class is primarily concerned with the biological basis of behavior, an introduction to pharmacology, and the mechanism of action of various psychoactive agents used in the treatment of mental illness. The course is also designed to cover factors related to the etiology, treatment, relapse prevention and prognosis of substance abuse and co-occurring disorders. This course will prepare social workers to both have a basic understanding of psychopharmacology, and to work with prescribing physicians to maximize the effectiveness of medications and clinical interventions for the treatment of clients with behavioral health co-occurring disorders. This course was designed to meet the requirement of the Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists for applicants seeking licensure or certification.
Prerequisite(s) SOWK 509 and SOWK 680
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered SPRING
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SOWK 701 - History of Social Welfare Policy
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course provides information on and analysis of the history and evolution of social welfare values, practices, policies, and organizations in the United States. The effects of broader social factors on the development of social welfare policies is emphasized.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 702 and SOWK 704
Offered FALL
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SOWK 702 - Social Work and Human Services Statistics I
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course equips students with basic statistical techniques. Students will learn to apply descriptive and some intermediate statistical procedures to social problems and human service programs. Beginning knowledge and use of computer statistical software packages also will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 701 and SOWK 704 .
Offered FALL
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SOWK 703 - Knowledge and Theory Development for Urban Social Work
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the assumptions, logic, and methods of social science research. Special attention is given to an examination of the sundry methods of social science data collection and to an understanding of their applicability, strengths, and limitations.
Prerequisite(s) SOWK 702 and SOWK 704 .
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 705 and SOWK 706 .
Offered SPRING
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SOWK 704 - Research Methods for Urban Social Institutions
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course presents an examination of the various psychological, socio-cultural, political, and economic theories that undergird urban social work knowledge, values, and skills. Theories relevant to community development and empowerment are also discussed.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 701 and SOWK 702 .
Offered FALL
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SOWK 705 - Contemporary Social Policy Analysis
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the frameworks and methods of analyzing contemporary social welfare policies and the programs through which they are implemented. The course also presents models of policy analysis and policy advocacy and their applicability to urban populations.
Prerequisite(s) SOWK 701 and SOWK 706
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 703 and SOWK 706 .
Offered SPRING
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SOWK 706 - Social Work and Human Services Statistics II
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course presents more intermediate statistical procedures that are introduced in SOWK 702, but also introduces the logic, significance, and applicability of advanced (i.e., multivariate) statistical procedures. Intermediate knowledge and use of computer statistical software packages will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s) SOWK 702
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 703 and SOWK 705 .
Offered SPRING
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SOWK 801 - Administration, Management, and Organizational Policy
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces students to theoretical and applied approaches to human service administration, leadership, management and policy development. Emphasis is placed on human resource development and management and program development and implementation.
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SOWK 802 - Qualitative Methods in Social Work Research
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces qualitative research approaches appropriate for urban social work research. Emphasis is placed on analyzing the appropriateness of these approaches for describing and explaining urban social work phenomena in clinical, organizational, and other settings.
Prerequisite(s) SOWK 703
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 804 and SOWK 805 .
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SOWK 803 - Urban Family Theories
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the various theories, perspectives, and methodologies used to study the structure and functioning of families, especially urban families. Some of the conceptual models discussed are family structure and functionalism, interactionism, exchange theory, and conflict theory.
Prerequisite(s) SOWK 704
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 807 and SOWK 899
Offered SPRING
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SOWK 804 - Social Work with Urban Organizations And Communities
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course examines urban organizations and communities with a focus on community-based organizations that serve urban and historically oppressed populations. This course also focuses on administrative roles, organizational management, resource acquisition, and community organizing and planning.
Prerequisite(s) SOWK 701 and SOWK 704
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 802 and SOWK 805
Offered FALL
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SOWK 805 - Advanced Statistics For The Human Services
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course focuses exclusively on multivariate analyses commonly used in social work research. These procedures are ordinary least squares multiple regression, logistic regression, structural equation models, and others. Advanced knowledge and use of computer statistical software packages also is emphasized.
Prerequisite(s) SOWK 702 and SOWK 706
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 802 and SOWK 804
Offered FALL
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SOWK 806 - Program Evaluation
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course provides students with an in-depth look at, and assessment of, evaluation methods in social work practice, administration, and policy. It prepares students to systematically evaluate the effectiveness and efficacy of human service interventions with urban populations.
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SOWK 807 - Issues In Social Work Pedagogy And Education
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the role and structure of social work education at the various degree program levels. The course emphasizes pedagogical issues in social work education and the significance of scholarly writing in advancing the career of social work educators.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 803 and SOWK 899
Offered SPRING
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SOWK 808 - Teaching Practicum In Social Work Education
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course allows students the opportunity to either teach a social work course at the BSW or MSW level under the supervision of a faculty mentor, or work with a professor on a research project.
Prerequisite(s) All previous required courses
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 998
Offered FALL
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SOWK 809 - Health Policy Issues and Practice
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course presents an overview and analyses of critical health policy issues that disproportionately and adversely affect urban populations. This course also examines the various macro practice methods used to resolve these issues from a social justice perspective.
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SOWK 810 - Scholarly Writing and Productivity
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the expectations and necessity of scholarly writing and productivity in social work. Preparing students for the role of “publishing scholar,” this course provides students with the knowledge, values, and skills associated with writing scholarly articles and books.
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SOWK 811 - Independent Study
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course can be used as an elective or independent study. Students are encouraged to select an elective or independent study that reinforces their dissertation topic.
Prerequisite(s) All previous required courses
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 997
Offered SPRING
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SOWK 899 - Guided/Supervised Research
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course prepares students for the major components of the dissertation research process. The course provides students with the opportunity to develop a draft research proposal that potentially could be used as a foundation for their dissertation work.
Prerequisite(s) All previous required courses
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 803
Offered SPRING
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SOWK 993 - Doctoral Pre-Candidacy
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course conveys full-time status to a doctoral student as a full-time student engaged in study prior to the achievement of doctoral candidacy. Students studying for comprehensive examinations or preparing for a proposal defense enroll in this course. This course is a non-curricular course and cannot be used as a program credit requirement. The student registers for 3 credit hours and the registration reports the full-time status of 9 graduate credit hours.
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SOWK 997 - Dissertation Guidance
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course enables a student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the dissertation. This course is a non-curricular course and is not considered as part of the overall program credit requirement. However, this course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student registers for 3 credit hours each semester, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
Prerequisite(s) All previous required courses
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 811
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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SOWK 998 - Dissertation Defense
Three hours.
9 Credits
This course allows students the opportunity to defend their doctoral dissertation for approval by the student’s dissertation chairperson and committee after the thesis has been completed. After gaining approval of the dissertation chairperson and committee, the dissertation is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and may be considered as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. This course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student is registered for 3 credit hours, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
Prerequisite(s) All previous required courses
Co-Requisite(s) SOWK 808
Offered FALL
Contact Hours Three
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Sociological Foundations Education |
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SFED 510 - Historical, Philosophic and Sociological Foundations of Urban Education
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course examines education from the perspective of the history, sociology, and philosophy of education. Some of the major topics are social forces and schooling; the social system and culture of the school; social class differences in education; the place of philosophy in education; and functional analysis of educational problems.
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SFED 582 - The Exceptional Child: Administrative and Program Needs
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to sensitize educators to the need for effective educational programming for exceptional children. It explores the legal basis for P.L. 94-142 and its amendments for working with handicapped children in regular educational programs. An overview of the area of special education and its implications for teaching and learning constitutes the framework for the emphasis of this course. Special attention is given to the characteristics and needs of minority handicapped children.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL/SPRING
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SFED 651 - Social Policy and Futurism
Three hours.
3 Credits
The study of the future is a subset of social policy determination and its allied field social planning. This course will provide information and academic content that will be useful as alternatives for dealing with the future.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL
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Sociology and Anthropology |
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SOCI 500 - Proseminar in Sociology
One hours.
1 Credits
This course is designed to provide the student with an understanding of the sociological mind, and the manner in which sociologists approach, analyze, and study social phenomena. Emphasis will be placed on the development of sociology as a discipline and the major concepts, theories, issues, research methodologies, and ethical problems associated with the discipline. This is a required core course.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) SOCI 510 and SOCI 511 .
Offered FALL
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SOCI 510 - Social Statistics
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course introduces students to multivariate parametric and non-parametric statistical techniques including multiple and partial correlation, multiple regression, factor analysis and path analysis, as they are applied to socio-cultural phenomena. The major focus will be on the use of computer programs (including SPSS, and SAS) in performing these techniques. This is a required core course.
Prerequisite(s) First Year Graduate Students in Sociology Only
Co-Requisite(s) SOCI 500 and SOCI 511 .
Offered FALL
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SOCI 511 - Classical Sociological Theory
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course aims to provide the student with a thorough analysis of the history of sociological theory and of the specific contribution of the early thinkers in sociology. Attention is paid to the various intellectual streams of thought and to other disciplines which have influenced the development of sociology. This course is a required core course.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) SOCI 500 and SOCI 510 .
Offered FALL
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SOCI 520 - Techniques of Social Research
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course is designed to enhance the students’ knowledge and understanding of the basic research techniques and procedures used in sociological research. It focuses on the formulation of research problems, research designs, questionnaire construction, proposal writing, data collection and data analysis. This is a required core course.
Prerequisite(s) SOCI 511 . Students must pass SOCI 511 with a grade of C or better.
Co-Requisite(s) SOCI 521 .
Offered SPRING
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SOCI 521 - Contemporary Sociological Theory
Three hours.
3 Credits
The paradigms which guide current sociological thought are examined and compared. Problems with theory and application (praxis) are studied through the use of recent sociology research. This is a required core course.
Prerequisite(s) SOCI 511 or permission of Graduate Coordinator. Students must pass SOCI 511 with a grade of C or better.
Co-Requisite(s) SOCI 510 and SOCI 511 .
Offered SPRING
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SOCI 530 - Black Americans in Sociological Thought
Three hours.
3 Credits
The treatment of African Americans in the literature and theories of sociology are studied as well as the contribution of African American sociologists to the development of the discipline.
Prerequisite(s) SOCI 511 or SOCI 521 or Permission of Graduate Coordinator. Students must pass these courses with a grade of C or better.
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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SOCI 531 - Sociology of Oppression
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course will deal with the issue of oppression not only in the United States, but also in other parts of the world. As such, attention is focused on the social and historical foundations of oppression, the various forms oppression may take, and the consequences of oppression. Particular attention is paid to slavery, colonialism, and racism, as well as to oppression resulting from ethnicity, gender, class and poverty religion, political ideology, age, national origin, etc.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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SOCI 540 - Sociology of Education
Three hours.
3 Credits
Education is presented as a social institution in terms of its functions and its structural bases. Attention is given to the internal processes and structure of educational institutions and to their interdependent relationship with other social institutions.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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SOCI 543 - Race, Education, and Social Inequality
Three hours.
3 Credits
Issues relevant to the education of ethnic minorities are studied. In addition, a variety of topics is considered including the values of ethnic groups toward education, their accessibility to the educational system, the extent of educational ethnocentrism, and the place of ethnic studies within policy control of the educational system.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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SOCI 545 - Identities and Interaction
Three hours.
3 Credits
A sociological approach to study of human social action and the dynamics of social interactions. Special attention is paid to development of self and group identities as a product of social interactions.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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SOCI 550 - Sociology of the Family
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course involves the study of the family as a social institution including its biological and cultural foundation, its historic development, and its changing structure and functions. With respect to social change, crucial disorganizing and reorganizing factors are isolated.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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SOCI 552 - Family Systems around the World
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course has two focuses; namely, the reasons which explain the necessity for all societies to have kinship systems and the tremendous variety they have assumed from place to place and over time; and, the nature of marriage, its place in the value system, its function as part of social contact, and its adaptability to change. Attention is also given to sexual taboos, and nontraditional modes of mating, for example, within gender with communes, and across ethnic boundaries.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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SOCI 553 - The Black Family in America
Three hours.
3 Credits
The domestic organization of black Americans is studied, taking into account (1) their African heritage; (2) their history of enslavement and ongoing economic and political oppression; (3) their patterns of mating, marriage, and divorce; (4) their patterns of fertility and attitudes towards the young; and (5) their increasing integration into the mainstream of American society.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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SOCI 554 - Intimate Relationships
Three hours.
3 Credits
An understanding of contemporary courtship, and marriage, and family interaction as social psychological phenomena is provided. Consideration is also given to the major sources of marital strains and conflict in the family.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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SOCI 555 - Alternatives to the Traditional Family Structure
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course examines living arrangements that substitute for, or supplement, those in the tradition-al family. A critique of traditional family structure is given. Among the alternative lifestyles considered are communal living, living together, bachelorhood (for both females and males), single parent families, homosexual unions, co-marital relationships, and serial monogamy. Also considered are lifestyles influenced by a variety of religious and counterculture ideologies.
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SOCI 560 - Seminar in Urban Sociology
Three hours.
3 Credits
In this course, students are presented with a, broad theoretical matrix in, which to examine the process of urbanization in relationship to ecological organization, technological change, planning practice, and development policy.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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SOCI 562 - Collective Behavior
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course deals with the concept of collective action (sometimes referred to as collective behavior) and the various theories that are employed to explain this phenomenon, not only in the United States but also in other parts of the world. Examined also are the social factors that account for the emergence of this form of group action and the efforts that are made to contain it and the consequences of such action. Particular attention is paid to such forms of collective action as slave rebellions, strikes, protest demonstrations, fads, riots, and especially anti-colonial movements and other categories of social movements.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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SOCI 564 - Race and Ethnic Relations
Three hours.
3 Credits
The sociological responses of ethnic groups to the special character and problems of contemporary urban life are examined and analyzed. Also included is the study of the effects of ethnicity, on people’s accessibility to, and service by political structures, business and financial organizations, and public and private service agencies, and the type of coverage which they receive by mass media.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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SOCI 565 - Sociology of Migration
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course deals with the various social factors that undergird both internal and external migration. As such, the course focuses on a number of theories of migration, structural factors that conduce to migration, and the social consequences of migration. Special attention is paid to the concept of migration, the effect of poverty and other economic factors, racial/ethnic discrimination, political persecution, etc., on migration; and the impact of conflicts with host populations, competition for scarce infrastructural resources, etc., that result from migration.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL OR SPRING
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SOCI 566 - Sociology of Baltimore
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course provides students with an opportunity to use theories and principles associated with urban sociology for the systematic and diachronic study of the Baltimore metropolitan area as an urban system. A particular focus of the course is the treatment of culture, social organization, and social problems within the research context of a case study. Students may undertake, within a supervised context, the analysis of demography, ecology, crime, criminal justice, education, transportation, work, racial and ethnic relations, housing, zoning, commerce, and neighborhood organization as they pertain to the Baltimore metropolitan area.
Prerequisite(s) None
Co-Requisite(s) None
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SOCI 570 - Seminar in Applied Sociology
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course examines the present application of sociology to the resolution of social problems and focuses also on the role of the applied sociologist in the non-academic work setting. Required core course.
Prerequisite(s) SOCI 510 , SOCI 511 , SOCI 520 , SOCI 521 . Students must pass these courses with a grade of C or better.
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered FALL
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SOCI 600 - Evaluation Research
Three hours.
3 Credits
This course provides students with an understanding of program evaluation as it encompasses systematic observations that are designed to determine whether a social program or practice achieves its goals. In particular, students will be exposed to that aspect of applied sociological research that focuses on program design and planning, program monitoring, outcome evaluation, and economic efficiency, and the employing of science to gather valid and reliable data. Required Core Course.
Prerequisite(s) SOCI 510 , SOCI 511 , SOCI 520 , SOCI 521 , SOCI 570 . Students must pass these courses with a grade of C or better.
Co-Requisite(s) None
Offered SPRING
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SOCI 797 - Thesis Guidance
Three hours.
9 Credits
This course enables a student to develop and execute an approved scholarly research agenda in consultation with the student’s thesis chairperson and committee. Students register for this course continuously to maintain enrollment until the student has completed the thesis. This course is a non-curricular course and is not considered as part of the overall program credit requirement. However, this course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student registers for 3 credit hours each semester, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
Prerequisite(s) SOCI 799
Co-Requisite(s) None
Contact Hours Three
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SOCI 799 - Thesis Defense
Three hours.
9 Credits
This course allows students the opportunity to defend their thesis for approval by the student’s thesis chairperson and committee after the thesis has been completed. After gaining approval of the thesis chairperson and committee, the thesis is submitted to the School of Graduate Studies for final processing and approval. This course is a curricular course and may be considered as 3 credit hours of the overall program credit requirement. This course maintains the student status as a matriculated, full-time student (student is registered for 3 credit hours, but is acknowledged as having a 9 credit hour load).
Prerequisite(s) SOCI 510 , SOCI 511 , SOCI 520 , SOCI 521 . Students must pass these courses with a grade of C or better.
Co-Requisite(s) None
Contact Hours Three
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Telecommunications Management |
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TELC 500 - Urban Telecommunications Networks
Three hours.
3 Credits
Examines the overall field of Telecommunications. Uses in business organizations, industry and government, customer demand, growing importance of careers in telecommunication, public and private telecommunication networks, transmission networks and transmission channels.
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