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and career advancement. In this course, students will also review written work (HIPAA de-
identified) from their field placements, as well as papers from coursework for logic and
organization; paragraph development; transitional statements; active voice; emotional
tone/word choice; and matching writing style to the task such as case notes, professional
emails, funding proposals, literature reviews, and client or service provider letters.
SW 717 Human Sexuality for Social Workers (3 cr.) (Online)
This course will focus on integrating human sexuality issues into social work practice. Students
will examine current theories, research and evidence based practice(s) in addressing human
sexuality issues across the lifespan. The course will explore the historical, political, and cultural
contexts of human sexuality, incorporating a trauma-informed and human rights perspective on
sexuality. This course is designed to provide students with greater awareness of the diversity in
sexual values, attitudes, and behavioral expressions found among client systems, and increased
knowledge and skills in assessing and intervening with issues related to human sexuality that
may present in social work practice.
SW 718 Core Concepts in Child and Adolescent Trauma (3 cr.)
This course will introduce students to the core concepts (general theory and foundational
knowledge), which informs evidence-based assessment and intervention with traumatized
children and adolescents. Strength-based practice will be highlighted along with a focus on the
identification of protective and promotive factors that foster resiliency and post-traumatic
growth. Trauma is broadly defined, and includes children and adolescents exposed to traumatic
events including, but not limited to natural disasters, war, abuse and neglect, medical trauma,
and witnessing interpersonal crime (e.g. domestic violence) and other traumatic events. The
course will highlight the role of development, culture and empirical evidence in trauma-specific
interventions with children, adolescents and their families. It will address the level of
functioning of primary care giving environments and assess the capacity of the community to
facilitate restorative processes.
SW 719 Additional Field Experience
This 2-credit course must be concurrent with SW 552 or SW 553, and is designed to enable
students to gain additional advanced social work practice experience in their advanced year
field placement by completing an additional 120 hours in a given semester.
SW 720 Introduction to Issues in Veteran and Military Family Care (3 cr.)
This clinical course will prepare students for social work practice with service members,
veterans, and their families. Students will become oriented to the assessment of and evidence-
based treatments for signature injuries and diagnoses found among veterans and their family
members (e.g., post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, depression, substance
abuse, readjustment issues, intimate partner violence, military sexual trauma, and complex
trauma). Clinical modalities will include individual, couple, family, and group interventions that
promote health, wellness, and resiliency among service members, veterans, and their families.
Students will develop knowledge about the unique challenges and issues facing veterans from
different eras and conflicts, and the impact of intersectionality of multiple diversity factors (e.g.,
gender, military hierarchy and status, racial/ethnic background, sexual orientation, age,
disability, citizenship status) on the experiences of service members, veterans, and their
families.