Build a Portfolio Based on Your Professional Focus
Through our impressive range of electives, one-credit intensives, and field
placements, it is possible for you to concentrate your graduate education on
specific aspects of social work, including children and families; community- or
hospital-based mental health; international social work, working with adults;
schools; health; disability; working with the aged; social work and the law;
and social work policy practice.
You can select from our rich and diverse offerings to build a focused portfolio
suited to your professional interests. For example, if you chose a focus on
children and families, your course portfolio could include both direct practice
and elements of social policy and law within which practice is embedded.
Examples of our Practice Areas and Related Electives are provided below. One-credit intensives, or "mini-courses", are noted with (M).
field practice systems and related electives
Contemporary Issues with Children and Families
Course Title
Course Number
An Introduction to Conflict Management
MSWEL-GS.2082
Childhood Life Stressors & Maladaptive Behaviors
MSWEL-GS.2055
Clinical Practice with Children
MSWEL-GS.2010
Clinical Practice with Families: Contemporary Issues & Approaches
MSWEL-GS.2086
Creative Arts Therapy in SW Practice
MSWEL-GS.2110
Culturally Competent Practice w/ Urban Youth & Families
MSWEL-GS.2096
Culture & Social Issues of Central America
MSWEL-GS.2114
Ending Poverty: Models for Social Change and Social Action
MSWEL-GS.2111
Grief, Loss and Bereavement
MSWEL-GS.2087
Object Relations
MSWEL-GS.2051
Social Work & Family Violence
MSWEL-GS.2063
Social Work Practice in Child Welfare
MSWEL-GS.2046
Social Work Practice in Secondary Schools
MSWEL-GS.2064
Theories of Attachment
MSWEL-GS.2088
Art Therapy with Children & Adolescents (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Child Welfare Practice w/ Immigrant Families (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Clinical Practice With Families (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Conflict Resolution for Children & Adolescents (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Contemporary Child Treatment (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Culturally Sensitive Practice with Spanish Language/Latino Heritage Families (M, taught in Spanish)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Grief, Loss & Bereavement (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Immigrant Families: Stressors and Adaptation (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
SW in the ER: Focus On Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Abuse (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Contemporary Issues with Adults
Course Title
Course Number
Advanced Practice with Immigrant and Refugees
MSWEL-GS.2115
An Introduction to Conflict Management
MSWEL-GS.2082
Clinical Practice w/Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
MSWEL-GS.2059
Clinical Practice with Couples
MSWEL-GS.2049
Clinical Practice with Substance Abusers & Their Families
MSWEL-GS.2028
Contemporary Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender
MSWEL-GS.2095
Creative Arts Therapy in SW Practice
MSWEL-GS.2110
Critical Thinking, Spirituality & Psychotherapy
MSWEL-GS.2109
Ending Poverty: Models for Social Change and Social Action
MSWEL-GS.2111
Feminist Theories & Practice
MSWEL-GS.2050
Grief, Loss and Bereavement
MSWEL-GS.2087
Object Relations
MSWEL-GS.2051
Disaster, Trauma & Loss (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Grief, Loss & Bereavement (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Psychological Trauma (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Substance Abuse Among Women through the Life Cycle (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
The Use of Harm Reduction in the Treatment of Substance Abuse Disorders (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Contemporary Issues with Older Adults
Course Title
Course Number
Clinical Practice with Aging Populations
MSWEL-GS.2117
Contemporary Aging
MSWEL-GS.2102
Grief, Loss and Bereavement
MSWEL-GS.2087
Grief, Loss & Bereavement (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Substance Abuse Among Women through the Life Cycle (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Health
Course Title
Course Number
Clinical Practice in Illness & Healthcare
MSWEL-GS.2113
Social Work in Health and Mental Health
MSWEL-GS.2112
Eating Disorders (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Disability
Course Title
Course Number
An Intro To Disabilities and Clinical Social Work Practice (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
World of Work
Course Title
Course Number
Social Work: Foundation for Leadership
MSWEL-GS.2118
Occupational Social Work (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Writing For Professionals (M - WSQ)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Social Work and the Law
Course Title
Course Number
Comparative Criminal Justice
MSWEL-GS.2106
Mental Illness & The Criminal Justice System
MSWEL-GS.2119
Social Work & the Law
MSWEL-GS.2003
Therapeutic Jurisprudence
MSWEL-GS.2101
Community Based Mental Health
Course Title
Course Number
Cognitive & Behavioral Interventions
MSWEL-GS.2053
Comparative Short Term Therapies: Crisis Dynamic/CBT
MSWEL-GS.2047
Critical Thinking, Spirituality & Psychotherapy
MSWEL-GS.2109
Culturally Competent Practice: Integrative Framework for Serving Asian & Asian American Populations
MSWEL-GS.2091
Evidence Based Practice
MSWEL-GS.2104
Integrative Gestalt Therapy Approach
MSWEL-GS.2110
Social Work Treatment with Difficult Clients
MSWEL-GS.2108
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Principles & Practice (M)
SW in the ER: Focus On Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Abuse (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
International Social Work
Course Title
Course Number
Advanced Practice with Immigrant and Refugees
MSWEL-GS.2115
Culturally Competent Practice: Integrative Framework for Serving Asian & Asian American Populations
MSWEL-GS.2091
Culture & Social Issues of Central America
MSWEL-GS.2114
Social Work Practice in Child Welfare
MSWEL-GS.2046
Culturally Sensitive Practice with Spanish Language/Latino Heritage Families (M, taught in Spanish)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Disaster, Trauma & Loss (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Immigrant Families: Stressors and Adaptation (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
School Social Work
Course Title
Course Number
Social Work Practice in Secondary Schools
MSWEL-GS.2064
Social Work Practice In Secondary Schools & Colleges (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
Policy Practice
Course Title
Course Number
Comparative Criminal Justice
MSWEL-GS.2106
Contemporary Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender
MSWEL-GS.2095
Culture & Social Issues of Central America
MSWEL-GS.2114
Ending Poverty: Models for Social Change and Social Action
MSWEL-GS.2111
Grief, Loss and Bereavement
MSWEL-GS.2087
Mental Illness & The Criminal Justice System
MSWEL-GS.2119
Social Work: Foundation for Leadership
MSWEL-GS.2118
Therapeutic Jurisprudence
MSWEL-GS.2101
Grief, Loss & Bereavement (M)
MSWEL-GS.2077
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