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SWRK-5017EL - Advanced Social Work Practice II
This course provides an overview of theory and practice concerning social work approaches with different types of groups, including therapeutic, task and action groups. Students will explore issues related to group development and process. Students will develop advanced practice skills in group faci...
SWRK-5026EL - Social Policy: Advocating for Change
This course is an examination of the socio-economic, political and institutional forces, planning processes, and practice techniques involved in social policy making in Canada. It focuses upon the development of professional skills in advocacy for policy change. cr 3....
SWRK-5027EL - Social Policy: Issues and Options
This course is an examination of the current status of Canadian social policy, including its socio-economic and institutional context, its ideological underpinnings and contemporary political expression, and its perceived efficiency and effectiveness at achieving stated goals. cr 3....
SWRK-5036EL - Administration of Social Work
This course involves a review of organizational behaviour and management theory, with an examination of processes and techniques appropriate to the administration of human service organizations. Much of the content pertains to goal-oriented management techniques, with particular attention to strateg...
SWRK-5037EL - Social Work Planning
This course examines the theory and practice of social planning in an era of dramatic change. Technological advance, globalization of the economy, the information highway, deficit reduction, devolution, institutional restructuring and program rationalization are some of the forces that have destabil...
SWRK-5046EL - Supervision
This course addresses the theory and practice of staff supervision in human service organizations. Designed to enhance professional competence, course content focuses upon responsibilities, processes and models of supervision. Given the dynamic environment of contemporary social agencies in which st...
SWRK-5056EL - Research I: Methods
This course reviews concepts and methods of social scientific investigation from a critical-analytical perspective. It involves an examination of the role of the researchers - within a given social, cultural and organizational context - in terms of question formulation, mode of inquiry, application ...
SWRK-5057EL - Research II: Advanced
This course is designed to prepare students for the design and implementation of a specific research project: a thesis, practicum report or program evaluation at the graduate level. Course content will advance knowledge of proposal writing, quantitative and qualitative methods (appropriate to select...
SWRK-5066EL - Mediation
This course examines theories, methods and techniques of mediation, a process of consensual dispute resolution, from a critical-analytical perspective. Following a review of the theoretical underpinnings of litigation and its dispute resolution alternatives, various philosophies of mediation will be...
SWRK-5076EL - Reading Seminar I
The object of this course is to pursue in depth a social work topic in which the student is particularly interested and in which he or she wishes to acquire some degree of specialization. The student prepares a proposal detailing goals and specific tasks to be accomplished. This proposal must be acc...
SWRK-5077EL - Reading Seminar II
The object of this course is to pursue in depth a social work topic in which the student is particularly interested and in which he or she wishes to acquire some degree of specialization. The student prepares a proposal detailing goals and specific tasks to be accomplished. This proposal must be acc...
SWRK-5086EL - Selected Methods of Direct Intervention
This course examines the theoretical frameworks, intervention models and skills required for selected methods of practice with individuals, families and small groups. It is designed for those engaged in direct intervention who wish to further their knowledge and skills in selected areas of practice....
