BSW Curriculum

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Social Work & Oppressed Groups/ Power, Privilege, & Oppression (SLWK 311)+

Terms: Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017

Course Description: Enhances understanding of and appreciation for diversity in self and others. Addresses issues of power, inequality, privilege and resulting oppression. Analyzes oppression resulting from persistent social, educational, political, religious, economic and legal inequalities. Focuses on the experiences of oppressed groups in the U.S. in order to understand their strengths, needs and responses. Uses a social justice perspective for the study of and practice with oppressed groups. 

👉🏼Student Evaluations: Mean rating of teaching effectiveness across nine evaluation criteria:  3.85/4 (n=99)

 

Foundations of Social Work Research II (SLWK 381)

Term: Spring 2018

Course Description: The course includes a review of basic statistical univariate and bivariate descriptive and inferential tools for analyzing, interpreting and presenting data for decision-making in generalist social work practice. It also introduces methods for analysis of quantitative and qualitative data and further develops critical-thinking skills in translating empirical research findings into generalist social work practice principles.

👉🏼Student Evaluations: Mean rating of teaching effectiveness across nine evaluation criteria:  3.61/4 (n=23)

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Independent Study (SLWK 492), faculty sponsor

Course Description: Under supervision of a faculty adviser, whose consent is required to register, study of a topic of concern to the student. Each student must present their findings in writing or pass an oral examination.

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Term/Topic:

Spring 2020--Human-Animal Interactions Research III

Fall 2019--Human-Animal Interactions Research: Course II

Summer 2019--Human-Animal Interactions Research: Course I

Spring 2019--Examining Supports for Veterans Experiencing Homelessness: Course II

Fall 2018--Examining Supports for Veterans Experiencing Homelessness: Course I

Fall 2017--Developing a Fulbright Research Proposal (student was successful in receiving Fulbright award)

Spring 2017--Race, Ethnicity, and Childhood Trauma

Spring 2017--Teaching Power, Privilege, and Oppression

Fall 2016--Culturally-Specific Risk and Protective Factors for Trauma

Fall 2016--Critical Pedagogy 

Fall 2016--Pedagogy of Anti-Oppression

Spring 2016--Ethnocultural Variations in Trauma Symptomology

Spring 2016--Veterinary Social Work

Spring 2016--Pedagogy, Technology, & Social Work Education

Spring 2016--Intersectional Feminist Pedagogy

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MSW Curriculum

Human-Animal Interactions Across the Lifespan (SLWK 791)*

Terms: Fall 2019, Fall 2020

Course Description: This course explores the varied human-animal connections that emerge across the life span. Students will examine both typical and dysfunctional relations between humans and animals (e.g., children, animals, and empathy; animal welfare issues related to human welfare). The course focus will be on published research and evaluation studies and directions for future study and exploration. This course will provide an overview of contemporary scholarly thought and empirical research on human-animal connections from infancy through older adulthood. Students will address typical aspects of human-animal interaction across the lifespan through ecological/transactional, socio-emotional development, and cross-cultural lenses, to identify implications for social work practice, policy and research.

👉🏼Student Evaluations: Mean rating of teaching effectiveness across nine evaluation criteria:  3.84/4 (n=34)

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Independent Study (SLWK 792), faculty sponsor

Course Description: An independent, in depth study, planned and undertaken by one to three students, mentored by a faculty member, of an area or problem not ordinarily included in the social work curriculum. Results of the study are presented in a report. The independent study provides a means for the student(s) to individualize learning needs and to pursue educational goals through intensive study of an area, issue, or problem selected by the student(s) in a manner not possible in regular courses in the curriculum.

 

Term/Topic:
Spring 2019--Victimization Research with Vulnerable Populations

Spring 2018--Animal-Assisted Interventions Research
Spring 2017--Trauma in Military Populations

Fall 2017--Service Dogs, Animal-Assisted Therapy, and Veterans

Fall 2017--Animal-Assisted Medical Social Work

Spring 2016--Family Violence, Animal Cruelty, & Child Health

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Field Education Roles

Summer 2021: Task Supervisor (Placement: CFAR Group)

Spring 2020: Task Supervisor (Placement: Richmond SCAN [Stop Child Abuse Now] /Pets & Families Study)

Fall 2019: Task Supervisor (Placement: Richmond SCAN [Stop Child Abuse Now] /Pets & Families Study)