| source Berkeley (X) |
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department Social Welfare (X) |
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
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Course explores the role of philanthropy, foundations, and proposal development in American society. A grant writing exercise in a Bay Area community agency is required.
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This course examines social work as a profession: the practice of the profession, the organizational context of professional practice, and the ethics of the profession.
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Analysis of social welfare policies and programs including public assistance, social insurance, social services, and health and mental health.
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An introduction to the basic skills of interpersonal helping and problem solving and to related theory and research.
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Course examines current problems and issues in the field of social welfare.
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This course provides a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the development needs of children from birth to age 5 in the context of the varied social institutions in which they are cared for and educated. Specific attention will be focused on how children's experiences within and beyond their families vary by social class, ethnicity and language, family needs and preferences, and special needs. Students will examine how expectations for young children change over time and will become familiar with current and past policy debates about the education and social well-being of young children. Also listed as Education C116A and Psychology C104.
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This course brings together the methods of historical analysis and the problems faced by social welfare professionals to create a new and provocative examination of children and childhood in America. Topics covered will include childbirth and infancy, children's rights, learning, and the state of the superparent. A significant research paper is required. Also listed as History C129 and Undergrad Interdisciplinary Studies C132.
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This course will investigate the phenomenon of domestic violence in the United States from historical, psychological, sociological, anthropological, legal, feminist, and cross-cultural perspectives. We will study the impact this social problem has on families, relevant theories of causation, the merits of related services and interventions, and the experiences of diverse populations.
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The psychological, interpersonal, and social development of the person across the life cycle in the context of different social environments.
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Developmental abnormalities and deviations which result in dysfunctional behavior in the individual. Examines problems and disorders of children and adults from psychological and social perspectives.
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Descriptions, measurements, and major theories concerning the etiology of stress and coping in the adult (25-60) years.
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Topics and issues in infant development, including infant mental health, parent-child relationships, behavior assessment, predictors of disturbance, and intervention with high risk infants.
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Sociological, psychological, physiological, and cultural factors relevant to understanding the complexity of the aging process. Normative and maladaptive aspects of the aging process are examined in terms of their implications for personal and societal adaptation.
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Theoretical and methodological problems in the study of individual lives. Focus on the intellectual and social processes involved in the formulation, critical examination, and reformulation of clinical case studies and psychobiographies.
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Focus on the "personal community" -- those significant others available to render assistance in times of physical or emotional strain. How networks operate; their accomplishments and limitations; the role and skills of professionals in assessing and utilizing networks for clients.
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Major approaches to personality theory, including psychodynamic, behavioral, psychometric, and humanistic theory, as well as work in culture and personality, the study of lives, and feminist psychology. Analysis of relations between the life, work, and social-historical context of Freud, Skinner, Rogers, Eysenck, Margaret Mead, and others, with attention to the origins, course, and (on occasion) fall of each tradition. Also listed as Psychology C250E.
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Course examines theories of group, organization, and community dynamics. Topics include group leadership and decision-making, organizational goals, structure, and change, and community power and demographics.
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Analysis of issues in social welfare policy and recent trends shaping the development of the American welfare state.
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Mental health policies and programs at the national, state, and local levels; major factors influencing the provision of mental health services; reciprocal relationships between mental health policy and social work practice.
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Seminar examines critical policy and practice issues affecting the mental health field.
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U.S. social policy and programs for the aging are analyzed with respect to the knowledge required to assess the needs for societal supports and major issues and trends in the delivery of social services.
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Introduction to current problems, programs, and policies in child, youth, and family welfare.
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This course examines the intersection between social work practice and the educational system. It focuses on the school as a social system and the current policy context of education. It presents current topics in educational policy and critically analyzes them from a social work perspective. A focus is placed on the potential roles played not only by school social workers, but the social work profession in general, in actively collaborating with educational systems to support optimal developmental pathways for children and adolescents.
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The purpose of this course is to meet the needs of students interested in the way social work incorporates a social change and social justice perspective. The course is grounded in theoretical perspectives on social change and social justice, but it is also concerned with practical and professional matters such as change-focused direct practice, community organizing, legislative action, and other activities designed to give expression to the professor's social justice commitments.
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