Child and Family Services Option |
120 credits | ||||||||||
This Option is for students interested in working with children, youth, and families in a variety of settings that provide a wide range of services for child protection, runaway and homeless youths, homeless families, foster care, home finding, child care, domestic violence, school social work, rape crisis intervention, teen pregnancy, delinquency, and juvenile justice. The Social Work Department’s Child Welfare Partnership with the New Hampshire Division for Children, Youth and Families provides in-state tuition and a $2,500 stipend for two to three students each year who are interested in public child welfare services. Students can obtain additional information from the Department’s homepage or administrative assistant; scholarships are contingent on external funding. |
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Degree Requirements |
Credits |
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| Courses required for the Option are shown in boldface. | |||||||||||
| SW 2200 | Introduction to Social Work | 4 | |||||||||
| SW 2500 | Human Biology for Social Workers and the Social Sciences | 3 | |||||||||
| SW 3050 | Perspectives on Aging (WECO) | 3 | |||||||||
| SW 3130 | Child Welfare and Family Services (DICO) | 3 | |||||||||
| SW 3150 | Child Maltreatment | 3 | |||||||||
| SW 3250 | Families, Schools, and Community | 3 | |||||||||
| SW 3340 | Human Behavior and the Social Environment I | 3 | |||||||||
| SW 3350 | Human Behavior and the Social Environment II | 3 | |||||||||
| SW 3450 | Social Welfare Policy and Services | 3 | |||||||||
| SW 3510 | Theory and Practice of Social Work Intervention I | 3 | |||||||||
| SW 3520 | Theory and Practice of Social Work Intervention II | 3 | |||||||||
| SW 3530 | Theory and Practice of Social Work Intervention III | 3 | |||||||||
| SW 4020 | Social Work Research Methods (TECO) | 3 | |||||||||
| SW 4440 | Social Work Practicum: Child and Family Services | 12 | |||||||||
| SW 4550 | Social Work Seminar (WRCO) | 3 | |||||||||
| Health and Mental Health Elective - complete one of the following: | 3 | ||||||||||
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| PS 2010 | Introduction to General Psychology | 3 | |||||||||
| SO 2220 | Foundations of Sociology (DICO) | 3 | |||||||||
| Quantitative Reasoning in the Discipline Connection - complete one of the following: | 3 | ||||||||||
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| General Education: | |||||||||||
| EN 1200 | Composition | 3 | |||||||||
| IS 1111 | The First Year Seminar: Critical Thinking and the Nature of Inquiry | 3 | |||||||||
| MA | Mathematics Foundations | 3 | |||||||||
| CTDI | Creative Thought Directions | 6 | |||||||||
| PPDI | Past and Present Directions | 6 | |||||||||
| SIDI | Scientific Inquiry Directions | 6-8 | |||||||||
| INCO | Integration Connection | 3 | |||||||||
| Electives | 23-21 | ||||||||||
SW 4550 requires a minimum grade of C in the required Social Work (SW) foundation courses and a minimum major grade point average of 2.50 (all courses required for the major). |
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*All course information is from the 2012-2013 Catalog.
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