SW-355 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
This course provides a social work context in introducing students to theories and theoretical models that explain reciprocal influences and risk and resilience in shaping human behavior. This course uses a developmental framework to examine growth and maturation over the life course with attention to the person-environment configuration. This course emphasizes the relevance of factors including culture, ethnicity, gender, social constructions of age, social norms, socioeconomic inequality, spirituality, sexual orientation, and trauma in influencing the outcomes of transactions between the person and the environment over time. Special attention is paid to the applicability of course content to social work practice in human service settings. Prerequisites: SW 205; Social Work: An Introduction to the Profession, SW 206; The Personal, Cultural, and Social Influences on Helping, SW 323; Service Learning in Social Work Practice, Co-requisite: SW 327; Ways of Knowing in Social Work Practice
Distribution
Social Work