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• STA 588: ASSESS EVAL STU AFFAIRS HI ED

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will be a review of the student affairs and higher education literature on evaluation and outcomes assessment, and will address the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to effectively conduct outcome assessment and program evaluation in student affairs and higher education, and utilize the information yielded to inform instruction, programs, and services.
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• STA 589: PRAC APPL OF RES METHOD HI ED

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is designed to be an introduction to the foundations and concepts necessary for understanding and conducting research in the realm of student affairs and higher education. The course will focus upon the basics of research design including problem identification, literature review, method selection, data collection and analysis, application, and writing.
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• STA 590: CONT ISSUES HIGHER EDU FIN

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is an introductory examination of financial and budgetary issues within higher education. Students will learn the role of federal and state governments in relation to institutional budgets, analyze financial statements from institutions of different sectors to understand revenue streams and expenditure patterns, and relate budgetary issues to institutional operations. In addition, due to the strong nexus between finances and governance, the course will include an overview of common institutional governance structures, organizational structure and decision-making patterns in various institutions.
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• STA 592: INTERNSHIP/STU AFFAIRS I

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This is a fifteen-week internship which combines a fifteen-hour per week campus on-the-job experience in student affairs (under the direct supervision of a site supervisor) and a three-hour, fifteen-week seminar with a professor. During the semester, students will share information on the functions, services, and issues of each office, its role within the institution, and relevant professional literature with each other. Students will develop and share personal internship goals, implementation strategies, and a project which relates developmental theory to the internship experience. Students can select from several student affairs sites at Kutztown University and several other area colleges and universities. Paid graduate assistantship sites may be utilized with permission from the student affairs program coordinator.
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• STA 593: INTERNSHIP/STU AFFAIRS II

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is a fifteen-week internship which combines a fifteen-hour per week campus on-the-job experience in student affairs (under the direct supervision of a site supervisor) and a three-hour, fifteen-week seminar with a professor. During the semester, students will share information on the functions, services, and issues of each office, its role within the institution, and relevant professional literature with each other. Students will develop and share personal internship goals, implementation strategies, and a project which relates developmental theory to the internship experience. Students can select from several student affairs sites at Kutztown University and several other area colleges and universities. Paid graduate assistantship sites may be utilized with permission from the student affairs program coordinator.
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• SWK 100: INTRO TO SOC WK AND SWL

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course provides an overview of the development of social welfare and social work practice. The historical development of social welfare is related to the emergence and the development of the social work profession. The course introduces knowledge, values, and skills as the common base of generalist social work practice. The problem solving approach to social work practice with multi-level system is introduced. Required of all social work majors.
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• SWK 130: POVERTY & SOCIAL WELFARE

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course defines poverty and examines groups in poverty in the United States. It traces poverty in America from a historical perspective, reviews major social welfare programs designed to respond to poverty and examines their effectiveness. Special populations and groups at risk encountered by social workers in practice will be examined with emphasis on viewing individual, family, and community functioning from a person-in-environment perspective. Major oppressive institutions and their effects on people in poverty are examined. Social work methods for social change to prevent, alleviate and resolve poverty are introduced.
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• SWK 160: HUMAN BEHAV/SOC ENVIRONMT

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course teaches students to evaluate and apply biological, psychological, and social theories to client's situation with a particular emphasis on the examination of the effects of the interplay of biological, psychological, social, economical and cultural elements of the social environment on human functioning. The impact of social and economic forces on the individual's behavior are presented. Systems promoting or deterring people in the attainment and maintenance of optimal health and well-being are explored with particular attention on the effects of these systems on ethnic and racial minorities, sexual minorities, women, and persons with disability. Required of all social work majors.
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• SWK 200: PROFESSIONAL CONTEXT

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  The course builds upon and reinforces the foundation of generalist social work knowledge, social work values, principles, ethics, attitudes, and skills introduced in the Introduction to Social Work Course. Students study the Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers and practice ethical decision making. The course reinforces the skills necessary to implement the phases of the problem-solving approach to social work practice with multi-level client systems (individuals, groups, families, communities, organizations). Students will be required to participate in a 30-hour volunteer field/laboratory experience. Open only to Social Work majors and minors. A grade of "C" or better is required in this course to enter SWK 250.
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• SWK 250: SOC WK PRAC/INDIV:PRACT I

  3.00 Credits

  Kutztown University of Pennsylvania

  
  The Social Work Practice with Individuals course starts a series of social work practice courses in which the skills of the problem solving approach are practiced with multi-level client systems (individual, groups, families, communities, and organizations). In this course students practice relationship building, interviewing techniques, case recording and further develop their problem-solving skills which were reinforced in the Professional Context of Social Work Practice Course. Students will be expected to participate in a laboratory experience involving a helping relationship project. Open to majors only. Required of all social work majors. A grade of "C" or better is required in this course to enter SWK 265.
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