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Overview of emerging issues in social welfare. Topics including culture and diversity, social justice, privatization and emerging technologies in the field of social welfare.

Study of theories and knowledge of human development across the lifespan within the wider context of a range of social systems.  Social systems examined include individual, family, group, organizational, and community in which people live.  The ways social systems promote or deter people in maintaining or achieving health and well-being are emphasized.

Examines aging from a broad perspective. Studies the causes and consequences of aging and its sociological and economic impacts. Prerequisite: PSY 12053 General Psychology or SOC 10153 Social Thought or SOC 10453 Introduction to Sociology.

Effects of social policy on practice; social policy analysis; process of policy formulation as it relates to human services and other social welfare professions.

Study of the function of marriage and family in contemporary American society, including the why of intimate relationships, couple/parent/child adjustment, three generational relationships, and the process of break-up and remarriage. Cross-listed with PSY 30654 Marriage and Family.

Confronts subject of death from new and alternative perspectives. Explores attitudes of death and the dying process, rituals, theories and the social organization of death in many societies to gain knowledge in understanding feelings and attitudes toward death. Cross-listed with PSY 30954 Death and Dying. Prerequisite: PSY 12053 General Psychology or SOC 10453 Introduction to Sociology.

Examines backgrounds, needs and coping mechanisms of persons faced with family crises. Identifies resources for meeting crises such as abuse in the home, chemical dependency, unwed parenthood, divorce and remarriage, unemployment, long-term illness or disability and death of a family member.

Develops both knowledge and skills in facilitating group experiences used in the human services and helping professions.  Particular emphasis on group processes for the psycho-emotional-social development of group participants. 

Designed around special theories, practices, or interests of an individual or group.

Introduction to descriptive and inferential statistical techniques used in the social sciences. Topics include data collection procedures, measures of dispersion, correlation designs, probability, statistical inference, and analysis of variance. Cross-listed with PSY 36000 Statistics for Social Sciences.

Develops working knowledge of fund development process. Considers grant preparation and writing, annual and special appeals, board and donor relations, and issues in fundraising. Examines federal, state and private funding options; differences between for-profit and not-for-profit organizations; and management of grants, inclusive of budgets and evaluations of funded programs/projects.