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Undergraduate Course Catalog 2008-2009

College of Health and Human Services

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Social Work (SW)

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Chairperson: Jerry D. Marx
Associate Professor: Mary Banach, Linda Rene Bergeron, Cynthia Anne Broussard, Robert E. Jolley, Jerry D. Marx, Sharyn J. Zunz
Assistant Professor: Vernon Brooks Carter, Karen R. Oil, Martha H. Ortmann, Anita Tucker, Melissa Wells
Clinical Assistant Professor: Martha A. Byam, Kim Kelsey, Susan A. Lord, Sharon B. Murphy, Lee P. Rush

The Department of Social Work’s undergraduate program offers both a major and a minor in social work. It is a specialized degree that prepares graduates for generalist social work practice with a solid foundation in the knowledge, skills, and value base of social work and the liberal arts. Social work graduates apply their education in working with individuals, groups, and social systems. In addition, the program prepares qualified students to pursue graduate education in schools of social work and other graduate programs in human services.

The baccalaureate program at the University of New Hampshire is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and must meet rigorous academic standards to retain this accreditation. Social work majors pursue a program that encompasses the professional social work foundation of social welfare policy, social work practice, human behavior in the social environment, research, and field education. Course content on values and ethics, populations-at-risk, human diversity, and social and economic justice is integrated throughout the curriculum.

To enable students to gain direct experience and to integrate classroom content with the demands of professional social work practice, students complete an introductory-year service learning experience as well as a 450-hour social work internship over two semesters during the senior year. The senior field placement is a “capstone” experience in the final year of the baccalaureate program and is arranged between the student and the field education coordinator. Students are required to pay a liability insurance fee for their off-campus field education experience.

Social work majors earn a B.S. degree in social work. Graduates are eligible for practice in a variety of social work settings throughout the United States and full membership in the National Association of Social Workers. In addition, qualified graduates may be eligible for advanced standing in M.S.W. programs which offer advanced standing.

Academic Program
Social work majors are required to take SW 424, 525, 550, 551, 601, 622, 623, 625, 640, 640A, 641, 641A. In addition, students are expected to successfully complete four courses taken from the disciplines of anthropology/sociology, human biology, philosophy, and psychology. Many of these may also fulfill general education requirements. Students wishing to minor in social work are required to take SW 424, SW 525 and any three other courses offered by the department, excluding SW 640, 641. Students interested in either a major or minor in social work should consult with the undergraduate program coordinator, Martha Byam, Pettee Hall, Room 231, (603) 862-1077.

 

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