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SOC 302 - Forests and Culture Units: 3
Explore relationships between human civilizations and nature/ forest in global and historical contexts. Themes include deforestation, ecological degradation, conservation, life-places, bioregionalism and ecological futures. Majors also take SOC 302M .
Division: Upper Division
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
General Education: GE UD Area D: Social Sciences
Sustainability: Sustainability Focused
Weekly: Lecture 3 hrs.
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SOC 302M - Forests and Culture for Majors Units: 1
Required corequisite for sociology majors enrolled in the 3-unit GE course of the same title. Majors will meet with instructor outside of GE section time to discuss movies, books, or paper.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Co-requisite: SOC 302 .
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Sustainability: Sustainability Focused
Weekly: Seminar 1 hr.
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Units: 1 |
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SOC 303 - Race and Inequality Units: 3
Problems of racialized power and inequality: causes, processes, theoretical considerations, and social movements. Multiple perspectives on problems and peacemaking efforts. Majors also take SOC 303M .
Division: Upper Division
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
General Education: GE UD Area D: Social Sciences
All University Requirements: DCG: Domestic
Weekly: Lecture 2 hrs. Second Lecture 1 hr.
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Units: 3 |
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SOC 303M - Race and Inequality for Majors Units: 1
Required corequisite for sociology majors enrolled in the 3-unit GE course of the same title. Majors will meet with instructor outside of GE section time to discuss movies, books, or paper.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Co-requisite: SOC 303 .
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar 1 hr.
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Units: 1 |
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SOC 305 - Global Transformations Units: 3
Economic, political, social, and ecological dimensions of globalization. Theories and research in global political economy, world systems, transnationalism, and social movements in historical and comparative contexts. Majors also take SOC 305M .
Division: Upper Division
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
General Education: GE UD Area D: Social Sciences
Sustainability: Sustainability Focused
Weekly: Lecture 3 hrs.
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Units: 3 |
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SOC 305M - Global Transformations for Majors Units: 1
Required corequisite for sociology majors enrolled in the 3-unit GE course of the same title. Majors will meet with instructor outside of GE section time to discuss movies, books, or paper.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Co-requisite: SOC 305 .
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Sustainability: Sustainability Focused
Weekly: Seminar 1 hr.
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Units: 1 |
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SOC 306 - The Changing Family Units: 3
Examines family as a pivotal institution in cross-cultural and American perspectives. Covers historical changes, contemporary issues, relation to structured inequalities, and social justice. Majors also take SOC 306M .
Division: Upper Division
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
General Education: GE UD Area D: Social Sciences
All University Requirements: DCG: Domestic
Weekly: Lecture 3 hrs.
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Units: 3 |
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SOC 306M - The Changing Family for Majors Units: 1
Required corequisite for sociology majors enrolled in the 3-unit GE course of the same title. Majors will meet with instructor outside of GE section time to discuss movies, books, or paper.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Co-requisite: SOC 306 .
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar 1 hr.
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SOC 308 - Sociology of Altruism and Compassion Units: 3
Altruism and compassion as an antidote to a divided world. Create a more caring society by understanding what motivates people to action. Majors also take SOC 308M .
Division: Upper Division
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
General Education: GE UD Area D: Social Sciences
Weekly: Lecture 3 hrs.
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Units: 3 |
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SOC 308M - Sociology of Altruism and Compassion for Majors Units: 1
Required corequisite for sociology majors enrolled in the 3-unit GE course of the same title. Majors will meet with instructor outside of GE section time to discuss movies, books, or paper.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Co-requisite: SOC 308 .
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar 1 hr.
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Units: 1 |
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SOC 310 - Sociological Theory Units: 4
Foundational people and theories in sociology. Social, economic, political, intellectual, biographical contexts of theory development. Appraise theoretical relevance to contemporary society. Writing intensive course.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SOC 225S ; junior standing or greater.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Lecture 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SOC 316 - Gender and Society Units: 4
Cross-listed with: WS 316
Nature of gender dynamics linking personal experiences to the structure and functioning of institutions, to cultural/subcultural aspects of society, and to interests of the powerful.
Division: Upper Division
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
All University Requirements: DCG: Domestic
Weekly: Lecture 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SOC 320 - Environmental Sociology Units: 4
Examines the dynamics of the “natural environment” and society. Emphasis on exploring environmental crises, theoretical perspectives on nature, climate and sustainability.
Division: Upper Division
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Sustainability: Sustainability Focused
Weekly: Lecture 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SOC 321 - Sociology of Sport Units: 4
Sport as a social institution and cultural phenomenon. Analysis through social justice lens of processes, patterns, issues, and values. Role in (re) production and transformation of culture and society.
Division: Upper Division
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SOC 330 - Social Deviance Units: 4
“Outsiders” by virtue of age, physical status, ethnic heritage, socioeconomic status, or social and occupational roles - elderly, disabled, poor, women, nonwhites, police officers. Role engulfment, anomie, and alienation.
Division: Upper Division
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Sustainability: Sustainability Related
Weekly: Lecture 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SOC 350 - Social Movements Units: 4
This seminar introduces students to the study of U.S. and international social movements. Students study the causes, activities, successes, and failures of social movements, and their importance in the contemporary world.
Division: Upper Division
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Lecture 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SOC 363 - Environmental Crime Units: 4
Application of criminal justice to the surrounding natural environment from legal, ethical, and social perspectives.
Division: Upper Division
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Sustainability: Sustainability Related
Weekly: Lecture 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SOC 370 - Environmental Inequality and Globalization Units: 4
Examines environmental justice and environmental inequality on a global level and their implications for communities and nation states.
Division: Upper Division
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Sustainability: Sustainability Focused
Weekly: Lecture 4 hrs.
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SOC 372 - Proseminar Units: 1
Structures career planning and professional development through resume building, job search, networking, and interview training. Develop proposal for capstone internship experiences of career plan.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: sophomore standing or greater.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Zero cost course materials: Zero Cost Course Materials
Weekly: Lecture 1 hr.
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Units: 1 |
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SOC 382 - Introduction to Social Research Units: 4
Theoretical principles, ethical issues, and common techniques for designing and implementing qualitative and quantitative social science research.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SOC 282L (C); junior standing or greater.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Lecture 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SOC 410 - Contemporary Social Theory Units: 4
20th century theories: functionalism, conflict, interactionism, exchange, structural, phenomenological, existential, interpretive, and critical.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SOC 310 ; junior standing or greater.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Lecture 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SOC 411 - Popular Culture Units: 4
Considers popular culture as an important arena of social and political struggle. Students explore a variety of social practices such as wrestling, hip hop, weddings, and television talk shows, and consider the ways that these practices are linked to larger systems of power.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SOC 310 or equivalent theory (C).
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Lecture 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SOC 466 - Migration and the Global Economy Units: 4
Examines the political economy of migration and the criminalization of human movement. Explores livability in relation to global poverty, climate change, nationalism, and capital accumulation.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: CRIM 225 or CRIM 225S or SOC 225S ; junior standing or greater.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Sustainability: Sustainability Focused
Weekly: Seminar 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SOC 472 - Graduate School Planning Units: 1
Develop criteria for researching graduate programs. Identify goals and match with programs. Develop application materials - CV and statement of purpose. Plan experiences to make you a stronger candidate.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: sophomore standing or greater.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Zero cost course materials: Zero Cost Course Materials
Weekly: Seminar 1 hr.
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Units: 1 |
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SOC 475 - Community Organizing Units: 4
Explores community organizing history, theory and practice. Emphasizes development of conceptual framework/ practical skills for organizing effectively in the community for social, environmental and economic justice.
Division: Upper Division
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Sustainability: Sustainability Focused
Weekly: Lecture 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SOC 480 - Special Topics Units: 1-4
Pressing social issues and popular topics.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: junior or senior standing.
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Lecture hrs TBD
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Units: 1-4 |
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SOC 482 - Internship Units: 3
Capstone. Student must secure campus or community 90-hour placement and instructor approval in the semester prior to enrollment. Paper on related research literature.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SOC 372 or SOC 472 ; SOC 382 ; sociology majors SOC 410 (C); CJS majors CRIM 410 (C).
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Zero cost course materials: Zero Cost Course Materials
Academic internship course: Yes
Weekly: Seminar 2 hrs. Tutorial hrs TBD
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Units: 3 |
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SOC 492 - Senior Thesis Units: 3
Design and carry out original empirical research or extensive review of literature. Proposal due in semester before enrollment to receive permission number.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SOC 372 or SOC 472 ; SOC 382 ; sociology majors SOC 410 (C) or CJS majors CRIM 410 (C).
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Zero cost course materials: Zero Cost Course Materials
Weekly: Seminar 3 hrs.
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Units: 3 |
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SOC 494 - Sociology Workshop Units: 1-2
Pressing social issues and popular topics. Focus intensive and short-term. May not be counted toward major.
Division: Upper Division
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Weekly: Seminar hrs TBD
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Units: 1-2 |
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SOC 499 - Directed Study Units: 1-4
Independent study of problems/issues or special theoretical/ analytic concerns.
Division: Upper Division
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: Instructor Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Zero cost course materials: Zero Cost Course Materials
Weekly: Supervision hrs TBD
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Units: 1-4 |
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SOC 560 - Teaching Sociology Units: 3
Explore pedagogy, theories of learning, teaching techniques, and issues in sociology classrooms. Develop teaching philosophy and portfolio in relation to own teacher identity.
Division: Graduate
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar 3 hrs.
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Units: 3 |
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SOC 583 - Quantitative Research Methods Units: 4
Discover the art and science of survey methods and data analysis in community research contexts. Develop statistical (descriptive, inferential, regression) analysis skills with emphasis on conceptual understanding and written interpretation.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: (STAT 108 or STAT 108I ) and SOC 382 , or equivalents.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SOC 584 - Qualitative Research Methods Units: 4
Theoretical and practical elements of the interview; focus group; fieldwork and community action research. Develop and initiate original research project. Computer techniques for data management and analysis.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SOC 382 or equivalent.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SOC 586 - Community Action Research Units: 3
Collaboratively use research skills to work with community groups and their identified research needs in ways that help our local community. Explore theoretical underpinnings uniting action research and appropriate methodologies.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: graduate standing; senior standing with Instructor Approval.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar 3 hrs.
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Units: 3 |
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SOC 605 - Graduate Proseminar in Sociology Units: 1
Develop professional sociological skills and engage with faculty research and professional activities.
Division: Graduate
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Zero cost course materials: Zero Cost Course Materials
Weekly: Seminar 1 hr.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 1 |
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SOC 610 - Contemporary Social Theory Units: 4
20th century theories: functionalism, conflict, interactionism, exchange, structural, phenomenological, existential, world systems, and critical.
Division: Graduate
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SOC 650 - Race, Ethnicity and Gender Units: 4
Causes, processes, theoretical explanations of racism, sexism, discrimination. Possible solutions. Intergroup relations from global perspective.
Division: Graduate
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SOC 665 - Community, Ecology and Social Action Units: 4
This graduate seminar links emancipatory sociology with practical skills designed to empower ordinary people to organize effectively in the community for social, environmental and economic justice.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: graduate standing.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Sustainability: Sustainability Focused
Weekly: Seminar 4 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 4 |
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SOC 680 - Seminar in Sociological Topics Units: 1-4
Division: Graduate
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar hrs TBD
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Units: 1-4 |
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SOC 682 - Teaching Internship Units: 1-3
Students emphasizing teaching may apply. If selected, a student is supervised by a faculty mentor. Supervising faculty member monitors and mentors intern.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SOC 560 , SOC 595, IA.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Zero cost course materials: Zero Cost Course Materials
Academic internship course: Yes
Weekly: Supervision hrs TBD
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Units: 1-3 |
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SOC 690 - Master’s Degree Thesis Units: 1-6
See Graduate Program Manual.
Division: Graduate
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Zero cost course materials: Zero Cost Course Materials
Weekly: Supervision hrs TBD
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Units: 1-6 |
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SOC 692 - Master’s Degree Project Units: 1-6
See Graduate Program Manual.
Division: Graduate
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Zero cost course materials: Zero Cost Course Materials
Weekly: Supervision hrs TBD
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Units: 1-6 |
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SOC 699 - Independent Study Units: 1-4
Directed study of problems/issues or special theoretical/ analytic concerns.
Division: Graduate
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: Instructor Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Zero cost course materials: Zero Cost Course Materials
Weekly: Supervision hrs TBD
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Units: 1-4 |
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SW 101 - Introduction to Social Work and Social Work Institutions Units: 3
Using a generalist and decolonizing model, course addresses intersectional concerns around power, privilege, resistance, and struggle in relation to social, environmental and economic justice along with methods for facilitating change.
Division: Lower Division
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
General Education: GE D: Social Sciences, GE E: Lifelong Learning
All University Requirements: DCG: Domestic
Weekly: Lecture 3 hrs.
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Units: 3 |
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SW 330 - Social Work Policy Units: 4
Development, formation, implementation. Critical perspective. Analyze major social legislation and develop strategies for improving policies and services.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SW major.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Lecture 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SW 340 - Social Work Methods I Units: 3
Generalist method: relationship building, forming partnerships, describing problems, assessing resources, developing plans, and evaluating progress. Strength-based work with individuals, families, and groups emphasized. Explore personal processes involved in becoming a helper.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SW major. Co-requisite: SW 340L .
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Lecture 3 hrs.
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Units: 3 |
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SW 340L - Social Work Methods I Lab Units: 1
This social work methods lab offers students intensive opportunities to develop social work values, knowledge, and practices consistent with the topics included in the methods course in the context of work with individuals and families. There is considerable opportunity for self-reflection in relation to the development of one’s practice.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Co-requisite for SW students: SW 340 .
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Activity 2 hrs.
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Units: 1 |
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SW 341 - Social Work Methods II Units: 3
Expand understanding of generalist method. Emphasis on work with organizations, communities, policy, and society.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SW 340 and SW major. Co-requisite: SW 341M .
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Lecture 3 hrs.
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Units: 3 |
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SW 341M - Social Work Methods II Lab Units: 1
This social work methods lab offers students intensive opportunities to develop social work values, knowledge, and practices consistent with the topics included in the methods course in the context of work with groups, organizations, communities, and society. There is considerable opportunity for self-reflection in relation to the development of one’s practice.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Co-requisite for SW students: SW 341 .
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Activity 2 hrs.
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Units: 1 |
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SW 350 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment I Units: 4
Contextual models for understanding human experiences, with a particular emphasis on individuals, families, and small groups. Diversity within human experience and the systemic influences that shape human experience are highlighted.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SW major.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Lecture 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SW 351 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment II Units: 4
Contextual models for understanding human experiences, with a particular emphasis on large groups, organizations, communities, and society. Diversity within human experience and the systemic influences that shape human experience are highlighted.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SW 350 . SW major.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Lecture 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SW 355 - Social Agency Experience Units: 2
Exposure to human service agency settings and processes. Organizational context for social work.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SW major.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Sustainability: Sustainability Related
Weekly: Activity 1 hr. Tutorial hrs TBD
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Units: 2 |
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SW 356 - Social Work Field Preparation Units: 1
Lab to prepare senior field experience.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SW major with junior standing.
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Activity 2 hrs.
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Units: 1 |
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SW 382 - Social Work Research Units: 4
Understand research as an analytic and interpretive approach to developing knowledge. Evaluate quantitative and qualitative research; sampling strategies; validity, reliability, measurement instruments, ethical and human diversity issues, analysis, developing conclusions.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SW major.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar 4 hrs.
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Units: 4 |
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SW 411 - Distributed Learning Community - BA Units: 1.5
This course is a weekly seminar where students, together with the Distributed Learning Coordinator, engage in an integrative process to strengthen their engagement with each other and the curriculum in the online BA Social Work program. This seminar is designed to integrate theory with practice, to gain information about community resources, to monitor student progress in the program, and to process the experiences in coursework and community practice on practical, conceptual, and ethical levels through the practice of writing for social change. Emphasis is on building a learning community while engaging students to support one another’s personal-professional growth in understanding the use of self.
Division: Upper Division
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Weekly: Seminar 1.5 hrs.
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Units: 1.5 |
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SW 420 - Decolonizing Social Work with Indigenous Communities Units: 1.5
Prepares students to understand and support Indigenousness and Sovereignty (Self-Determination). Promotes awareness of colonization and decolonization processes affecting Indigenous Peoples and how social workers can participate in solutions affecting them.
Division: Upper Division
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Sustainability: Sustainability Related
Weekly: Seminar 1.5 hrs.
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Units: 1.5 |
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SW 442 - Advanced Social Work Methods Units: 3
Practice-oriented topics, such as work with particular populations (aged, children) or practice orientations (mental health, medical social work).
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: junior standing.
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory Letter Grade
Weekly: Lecture 3 hrs.
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Units: 3 |
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SW 455 - Field Experience Units: 5
Two-semester sequence. Develop/apply generalist work skills through guided experience in a social service agency. Supervised by experienced agency field instructor.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SW major with senior standing. Co-requisite: SW 456 .
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Sustainability: Sustainability Related
Weekly: Tutorial hrs TBD
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Units: 5 |
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SW 456 - Field Experience Seminar Units: 2
Integrate theory and practice. Learn community resources, monitor progress in the agency. Process experiences on practical, conceptual, and ethical levels.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Co-requisite: SW 455 .
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Weekly: Seminar 2 hrs.
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Units: 2 |
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SW 459 - Child Welfare Training Seminar Units: 1.5-3
This course provides supplementary instruction on all aspects of the child welfare services system: intake, emergency response, family preservation, reunification, permanency planning, and adoptions. Attention is on generalist social work practices that partner with families and communities to enhance overall well-being. Significant emphasis is on the necessary conceptual and interactional skills for improving services to families.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SW major and acceptance into Title IV-E BASW Child Welfare Training Stipend Program.
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Weekly: Seminar hrs TBD
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SW 480 - Special Topics Units: 0.5-4
Department course schedule has topics.
Division: Upper Division
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar hrs TBD
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Units: 0.5-4 |
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SW 494 - Social Work Workshop Units: 1-3
Experiential learning through participation. Topics vary across social issues and social work interests. Focus often intensive and short-term.
Division: Upper Division
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Weekly: Activity hrs TBD
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Units: 1-3 |
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SW 499 - Directed Study Units: 1-3
Independent study of defined problems through library and/ or field research.
Division: Upper Division
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: Instructor Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Zero cost course materials: No Course Materials Required
Weekly: Supervision hrs TBD
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Units: 1-3 |
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SW 511 - Distributed Learning Community - Foundation Units: 1.5
This course is a weekly seminar where students, together with the Distributed Learning Coordinator, process experiences in the foundation year of the online graduate Social Work program. This seminar is designed to integrate theory with practice, to gain information about community resources, to monitor student progress in the program, and to process the experiences in coursework and community practice on practical, conceptual, and ethical levels through the practice of writing for social change. Emphasis is on building a learning community while engaging students to support one another’s personal-professional growth in understanding the use of self.
Division: Graduate
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Weekly: Seminar 1.5 hrs.
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Units: 1.5 |
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SW 530 - Social Policy and Services Units: 3
Examines economic, historical, political, sociocultural aspects of social policy; values and ideologies that shape social welfare programs and services; policy formation, advocacy, and analysis.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: MSW program admission.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Sustainability: Sustainability Related
Weekly: Seminar 3 hrs.
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SW 540 - Generalist Social Work Practice Units: 3
Applies knowledge and skills for generalist practice guided by the values of social justice and empowerment. Includes skill building lab.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: MSW program admission.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Clinical 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 541 - GSWP: Native American and Rural Units: 3
Within the historical context of colonization, the spirit and culture of Native American and rural communities are explored. Knowledge, values, and skills to work with and within these contexts are examined.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: MSW program admission.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Clinical 3 hrs.
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Units: 3 |
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SW 543 - GSWP II: Macro Practice Units: 3
Social work theory and methods relevant for macro-level practice are considered. Skills for engagement, assessment, planning, and evaluation with client systems including rural and Native American communities are explored.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: MSW program admission.
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Clinical 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 550 - Human Development, Diversity and Relations Units: 3
Theories in human relations/ development, indigenous and other cultural ways of knowing are examined in the context of shifting paradigms and meaning for daily life experiences.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: MSW program admission.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 555 - Foundation Internship Units: 3
Foundation community internship, demonstrating students’ knowledge, values, and skills in developing partnerships to benefit people and environmental conditions. Concurrent model. 480 total internship hours.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: complete first year foundation coursework (C).
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Sustainability: Sustainability Related
Academic internship course: Yes
Weekly: Activity 2 hrs. Laboratory 6 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 559 - Child Welfare Training Seminar Units: 1.5
A required component of the Title IV-E stipend program. Focus is on foundational competencies for practice in child welfare.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: MSW program admission and stipend recipient.
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Weekly: Seminar 1.5 hrs.
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Units: 1.5 |
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SW 570 - Dynamics of Groups, Agencies, Organizations Units: 3
Theories of development, and dynamics of larger social systems are examined. Emphasizes diversity, indigenous cultures, social justice and the role of the social worker.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: MSW program admission.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 580 - Special Topics Units: 1-3
Department course schedule has topics.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: MSW program admission.
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar hrs TBD
Course Rotations Link
Units: 1-3 |
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SW 581 - SW Research for Advanced Standing Units: 3
This course is a summer bridge research course designed to help advance standing MSW students understand and appreciate research as an analytic and interpretive approach to developing a knowledge base for social work practice. Students are expected to carry out an IRB, previously pre-approved research project. Students develop skills to conduct research, gather data, analyze data, present findings, and write research reports. Students will continue to develop research evaluation skills.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: admission into the Advanced Standing MSW program.
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 582 - Research I: Philosophy and Methods Units: 3
The first course in the MSW research sequence explores philosophical, ethical, theoretical, and political aspects of research methodologies, including conceptualizing research proposals in rural and Native American communities.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: MSW program admission.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Zero cost course materials: No Course Materials Required
Weekly: Seminar 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 583 - Research II: Qualitative and Indigenous Research Methods Units: 3
Helps students understand and appreciate research as an interpretive approach to developing a knowledge base for social work practice. Students explore qualitative and Indigenous research theories and methods.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SW 582 and MSW program admission.
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Seminar 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 599 - Independent Study Units: 1-3
Directed study of problems/issues or special theoretical/ analytical concerns.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: MSW program admission.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Supervision hrs TBD
Course Rotations Link
Units: 1-3 |
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SW 611 - Distributed Learning Community - Advanced Units: 1.5
This course is a weekly seminar where students, together with the Distributed Learning Coordinator, process experiences in the advanced year of the online graduate Social Work program. This seminar is designed to integrate theory with practice, to gain information about community resources, to monitor student progress in the program, and to process the experiences in coursework and community practice on practical, conceptual, and ethical levels through the practice of writing for social change. Emphasis is on building a learning community while engaging students to support one another’s personal-professional growth in understanding the use of self.
Division: Graduate
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Weekly: Seminar 1.5 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 1.5 |
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SW 640 - AGP: Child and Family Welfare Units: 3
Examines child, family, and Indian Child welfare policies/practices from historical, political, cultural, economic contexts. Emphasizes advanced practice skills for serving indigenous and rural families and children.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: complete first year foundation coursework.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Clinical 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 641 - AGP: Integrated Clinical Practice Units: 3
Theories, skills, and policies in mental health and problematic substance use are considered. Emphasis on partnering for change in intervention/ prevention from a multi-level, multi-system perspective related to diverse communities.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: complete first year foundation coursework.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Clinical 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 643 - AGP: Community and Organization Units: 3
Prepares students for advanced level practice with and within communities and organizations. Consideration is given to grant writing, program development, and empowering communities to engage in meaningful change with organizations.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: complete first year foundation courses.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Clinical 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 648 - AGP: Advanced Clinical Practice Units: 3
Advanced clinical skills needed to work with individuals, families, and groups in the context of advanced general practice are considered. Evidence-based interventions are examined from an ecological, multicultural perspective.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: complete first year foundation coursework.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Clinical 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 649 - AGP: Wellness and Sustainability Units: 3
Wellness, prevention, and health promotion in terms of sustainability as a global construct will be considered and its application in culturally appropriate and relevant practice and service.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: complete first year foundation coursework.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Sustainability: Sustainability Focused
Weekly: Clinical 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 651 - AGP: Indigenous Peoples Units: 3
This course examines Indigenous Peoples’ social work in a global context. Theoretical, methodological, ethical, and service issues are reviewed within the frameworks of cultural rights, international law, sovereignty, and globalization.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: complete first year foundation coursework.
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Clinical 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 655 - Advanced Internship Units: 3
Advanced community internship demonstrating students’ knowledge, values, and skills in developing partnerships to benefit people and environmental conditions. Concurrent model. 480 total internship hours.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: complete first year foundation coursework.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Sustainability: Sustainability Related
Academic internship course: Yes
Weekly: Activity 2 hrs. Laboratory 6 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 658 - Mental Health Training Seminar Units: 1.5
A required component of the mental health stipend program. Focuses on advanced competencies for practice in mental health settings.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: complete foundation coursework and current stipend recipient.
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Weekly: Seminar 1.5 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 1.5 |
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SW 659 - Advanced Child Welfare Training Seminar Units: 1.5
A required component of the Title IV-E stipend program. course addresses advanced competencies in child welfare practice.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: complete foundation coursework and current stipend recipient.
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Weekly: Seminar 1.5 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 1.5 |
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SW 670 - Social Work in School Settings A Units: 3
Thesis course focuses on a macro level framework for social work within California’s K-12 Public School System.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: completion of MSW. Co-requisite: SW 671 .
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Clinical 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 671 - Social Work in School Settings B Units: 3
The course utilizes an ecological systems framework to explore social work within California’s K-12 Public School System.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: completion of MSW. Co-requisite: SW 670 .
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Clinical 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 680 - Seminar in Social Work Topics Units: 1-3
Department course schedule has topics.
Division: Graduate
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Clinical hrs TBD
Course Rotations Link
Units: 1-3 |
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SW 682 - Masters Project Development Units: 3
The first course in a two-course sequence to aid students in the development of their master’s project. Focus is on developing the proposal, IRB, key informants, and agency agreements.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: MSW program admission.
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Zero cost course materials: No Course Materials Required
Weekly: Seminar 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 683 - Masters Project Implementation Units: 3
The second course in a two-course sequence to aid students in the development of their master’s project. Focus is on implementing the proposal, evaluating data, and disseminating the results.
Division: Graduate
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SW 682 .
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Mandatory CR/NC
Weekly: Seminar 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SW 699 - Independent Study Units: 1-3
Directed study of problems/issues or special theoretical/ analytical concerns.
Division: Graduate
Repeats: Repeatable for Credit
Permission to enroll: Instructor Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Supervision hrs TBD
Course Rotations Link
Units: 1-3 |
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SOIL 104 - Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture Units: 3
The course provides an understanding of the complex relationships among crop plants, domesticated animals, and their abiotic and biotic environment, and the requirements for sustainable agriculture.
Division: Lower Division
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
General Education: GE B2: Life Science, GE B3: Laboratory Activity
Sustainability: Sustainability Focused
Weekly: Lecture 2 hrs. Laboratory 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SOIL 260 - Introduction to Soil Science Units: 3
Soil’s physical, chemical, and biological properties. Implications for land management. Identify soil parent materials; use soil survey reports.
Division: Lower Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: CHEM 107 or CHEM 109 or IA.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Lecture 2 hrs. Laboratory 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SOIL 360 - Origin and Classification of Soils Units: 3
Factors of soil genesis; their interactions. Soil morphology/description; classification, emphasizing wildland soils.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SOIL 260 or equivalent.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Lecture 2 hrs. Laboratory 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SOIL 363 - Wetland Soils Units: 3
The morphology, chemistry, hydrology, formation and function of mineral and organic soils in wet environments. Topics include identification, estuaries, peatlands, preservation, regulation and mitigation. Recommended preparation: SOIL 360
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SOIL 260 or equivalent.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Lecture 2 hrs. Laboratory 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SOIL 460 - Wildland Soil Management and Erosion Control Units: 3
Characterization, mapping, assessment, interpretation, and management of wildland soils; nutrient cycling, fire effects, erosion control.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SOIL 260 or equivalent.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Sustainability: Sustainability Related
Weekly: Lecture 2 hrs. Laboratory 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SOIL 462 - Soil Fertility Units: 3
Methods of evaluating/ managing soil fertility; nutrient availability and cycling in terrestrial ecosystems; soil test methods and interpretation of results.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SOIL 260 ; or IA.
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Lecture 2 hrs. Laboratory 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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SOIL 465 - Soil Microbiology Units: 3
Interrelationships between soil, microorganisms, and plants, especially in context of wildland soils. Isolate/ identify microorganisms.
Division: Upper Division
Requisites: Pre-requisite: SOIL 260 or equivalent, and BIOL 105 .
Permission to enroll: No Special Consent Required
Grading mode: Optional Grade Basis
Weekly: Lecture 2 hrs. Laboratory 3 hrs.
Course Rotations Link
Units: 3 |
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