Sustainability Courses

This course examines human development across the lifespan, including specific developmental stages and critical factors that shape and influence human developmental trajectories. Students will gain knowledge of developmental theories with a focus on the biological, psychological, social and spiritual person and the interrelatedness of emotion and cognition, neurobiology, and the social environment. The course emphasizes the changing, dynamic, and interactive processes that shape human behavior ...

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This course, for students in the specialized year of the MSW program, will support students' development through the study of analysis, implementation and development of social welfare policies as well as the skills and knowledge of social work policy advocacy. It will focus on current policies that are directly related to contemporary, local, regional, national and global social work practice. Required.

Read more about SOCW-5710 : Advanced Social Welfare Policy

This course provides an opportunity for students to explore assessment and treatment issues of major mental health disorders in the biological, psychological, sociocultural and spiritual contexts. Topics include: ethical and social justice concerns in diagnosis, history and theories of mental health disorders, critical examination of DSM V diagnostic system and criteria, biopsychosocial spiritual assessment of mental health disorders, evidence-based practice (EBP) interventions, professional use...

Read more about SOCW-5720 : Mental Health Disorders

This course provides an overview of the classification, pharmacological properties, and physiological effects of alcohol and other psychoactive drugs. Students will explore the biological, psychological, social and political contexts of drug classification system and drug policies as well as the impacts of alcohol and other drugs on individuals, families, and communities. Impact of drugs and drug policies on vulnerable populations will be emphasized. Topics of discussion will include the societa...

Read more about SOCW-5830 : Psychopharmacology of Addictn

This course provides an overview of drug addiction counseling using evidence ­based theories and assessments. Emphasis is placed on sociocultural diversity and culturally appropriate and anti-oppressive treatment considerations for historically marginalized and/or vulnerable populations. Course introduces students to American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) criteria for addictions, theories of addiction treatment, stages of change in addiction counseling, chemical use and dependency assessm...

Read more about SOCW-5840 : Addictions Counseling

This course will explore the role of the social worker in healthcare settings that integrate psychosocial and physical care. Particular attention will be given to racial and ethnic minorities and other marginalized, oppressed populations and how social determinants of health, power, and culture impact their care. We will highlight social work's unique qualities within integrative healthcare and social workers' partnership on multidisciplinary teams. Students will explore issues surrounding healt...

Read more about SOCW-5850 : Medical Social Work

In this course we will define and develop an applied understanding of trauma and trauma-informed care. Students will gain a theoretical and neurophysiological understanding of trauma and its effects as well as analyze different theoretical frameworks for intervening on micro, mezzo, and macro levels. We will focus on locating individual experiences in broader socio-political contexts, using self to provide clinical care for those acutely affected by trauma, and reflecting on the effect of second...

Read more about SOCW-5860 : Trauma-Informed Social Work

This course has an interdisciplinary nature. Students will be exposed to some aspects of the Latin American history, politics, and society. This course is taught in the LASP program in Puebla, Mexico.

Read more about SPAN-3500 : History, Politics, and Society in Latin America

Nowadays there seems to be a proliferation of different Latin American cultural products that deal with the topic of (il)legal immigration. Through the study of songs, theater plays, short stories, movies and film we will reflect upon what it means to be an immigrant and what are the causes and consequences of the experience.

Read more about SPAN-4390 : A Visa to Fulfill a Dream

This course is an introduction to learning disorders for students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Topics covered perception of disabilities across cultures, reasons for the overrepresentation of various racial and ethnic groups in special programs, the effects of second language acquisition on current classroom learning, and the assessment and intervention for culturally and linguistically diverse students with learning difficulties.

Read more about SPED-5410 : Multicultural/Multilingual Students and Learning