In fulfillment of our urban research university mission, the School of Social Work has committed resources and faculty to the preparation of ethical, competent advanced scholars equipped to engage in research on contemporary clinical or urban issues and problems for the advancement of social work practice and social welfare policy and to assume leadership positions as social work educators, researchers, and agency administrators and clinicians. We encourage you to explore the innovative graduate level courses below which enhance our school goals. Feel free to reach out the teaching faculty if you have any questions. 

WINTER 2019

SW 8991 Advanced Interpersonal Practice in Trauma and PTSD:
Thursday's 5:30 - 8:00 pm; 3 credits

This course examines the major trauma therapy models and theories for advanced interpersonal social work practice across micro, mezzo, and macro levels. Advanced application of theories and intervention models for working with trauma exposed individuals and those with trauma related disorders across the life span and within an ecological and cultural context.

For more information contact Sara Brackenbury sara.brackenbury@gmail.com PDF Flyer to Print

SW 9220  Theories for Practice and Research: Groups and Families:
PARTIAL WEB-COURSE with four online (asynchronous) meetings and four Saturday meetings that last 4.5 hours; 3 credits 

If you are a doctoral student who enjoys thinking and learning about how groups and families function and change, this class is for you! 

This course aims to develop students' abilities to demonstrate knowledge of various theories, models and perspectives that
currently guide practice and research with families and groups. 

It includes:

• a study of the historical context and philosophical underpinnings of practice theories with families and groups
• theoretical knowledge how families and groups function

Students:

• will analyze criteria for evaluating theories about families and groups
• may develop their own practice theory for understanding or working with families or groups

Methods of learning include: reading, discussion and recorded and face-to face-lectures. 

For more information contact Arlene Weisz, at aa4495@wayne.edu or 313-577-4420. PDF Flyer to Print

SW9697 Integrative Seminar in Social Work & Anthropology: 
Monday's 11:30 - 2:00 pm; 3 credits

This graduate course will explore the intersection between social work and anthropology by critically analyzing relevant ethnographic
scholarship. Students will acquire knowledge and skills in the following areas:

• Developing an understanding of interdisciplinary research design, method and approaches.
• Conceptualizing applications of social work and anthropological theories and frameworks.
• Identifying various intersections of social work and anthropology as it applies to the following substantive areas: health, mental health, aging, and substance abuse.

Class discussions and assignments will include theoretical and methodological approaches to integrating the two fields, with particular interest in urban issues. Students will also have opportunity to explore the intersection of these two fields with respect to their proposed research interests.

The course will feature extensive reading in the interdisciplinary theory and epistemology, guest lectures by faculty and students currently conducting inter-disciplinary research, and attention to students' interdisciplinary research projects intended for the dissertation.

This graduate-level integrative seminar welcomes doctoral students from the School of Social Work, Department of Anthropology and other related disciplines across campus interested in these interdisciplinary intersections.

For more information contact Tam Perry at teperry@wayne.edu. PDF Flyer to Print