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REL 333 - Women and Goddesses in India
Description:
Study of women’s roles, notions of female power, and goddesses in Hindu tradition.
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: GA, HU
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Occasionally
Credits: 3
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REL 340 - Buddhism
Description:
Study of Buddhist religious traditions in their historical and cultural contexts. Relevance of Buddhism for addressing problems in the modern world such as war, environmental degradation, and social injustice.
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: GA, HU
Associate: HC
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall Only
Credits: 3
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REL 341 - Religions of India
Description:
Study Hindu deities, practices, and philosophies including comparison of Indian and U.S. Hinduism, and Hinduism’s influences on Indian Christianity.
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: GA, HU
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall Only
Credits: 3
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REL 342 - Islam
Description:
Study of Islam in variety of historical, cultural, political contexts. Overview of Islamic beliefs and practices including issues of women, politics and war, and mysticism in Islam.
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: HU
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
No Longer Offered
Credits: 3
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REL 343 - Judaism
Description:
Study of Judaism in history and its contemporary global context. Issues to consider may include traditions of textual interpretation, anti-Semitism, Zionism, immigration and assimilation in America, and the diversities of modern Judaism.
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
No Longer Offered
Credits: 3
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REL 344 - Christianity
Description:
Study of Christian religious traditions in their historical and cultural contexts. Issues to consider may include the development and canonization of scripture, the relationship between the church and the state, and the modern global diversity of traditions.
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: HU
Associate: HC
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Occasionally
Credits: 3
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REL 345 - Religion and Ecology
Description:
Examines the ecological aspects of diverse religious traditions in global contexts, with particular attention to examples from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: GA, HU
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall Only
Credits: 3
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REL 350 - Religion and Film
Description:
Explore the aesthetic, cultural, and historical dimensions of cinema in relationship to religious communities and religious themes. These explorations will include how different religious communities have related to cinema as well as how movies have represented, maligned, or promoted various religions over time.
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: ART
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Occasionally
Credits: 3
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REL 363 - Religion and Society in Ancient Israel
Description:
What can we know about the social and religious worlds of ancient Israel? And how does this knowledge shape the way we interpret biblical texts? These questions will be pursued through the application of multiple disciplinary approaches from the Social Sciences and the Humanities to the analysis of both textual and non-textual evidence from ancient Israel and neighboring cultures. Application of different methodologies and distinct fields of knowledge and their impact upon the interpretation of specific biblical texts.
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Occasionally
Credits: 3
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REL 390 - Service Learning
Description:
Volunteer in a community service organization for an agreed upon number of hours, to vary according to credit earned. In consultation with a specific religious studies faculty member, you pursue a course of reading and writing specifically designed to complement your volunteer activity and help you pursue “the cross-cultural examination of humanity’s diverse religious traditions” that characterize religious studies courses.
Prerequisites:
Religious Studies Faculty Member Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
As Needed
Credits: 1-3
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REL 392 - Religious Studies Internship
Description:
Intern provides small group writing and reading assistance in selected religious studies courses.
Prerequisites:
Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
As Needed
Credits: 1 pass/fail
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REL 396 - Special Topics Through Study Abroad
Description:
Advanced study of Religious Studies during UW-Stevens Point semester abroad or study tour. Subject varies by destination and resources.
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
As Needed
Credits: 1-3
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REL 399 - Independent Study
Description:
Individual work in religious studies on special problem, theme, thinker, or period may be arranged with instructor and consent of the chair. Credit based on scope of project. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles.
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
As Needed
Credits: 1-3
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REL 450 - Senior Seminar
Description:
Major issues in academic study of religion and culture. Subtitle will designate topic. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles.
Prerequisites:
Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Spring Only
Credits: 3
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REL 499 - Independent Study Capstone
Description:
Capstone project involving independent study of a specific topic within the academic study of religion with consent of the instructor and chair
Prerequisites:
Department Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
As Needed
Credits: 3
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REL 507 - Religion and Health
Description:
Exploration of a variety of world religions with particular focus on how these traditions deal with issues of health, healing, disease and dying. Available for undergraduate credit as REL 307 .
Credits: 3
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Research |
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RSCH 798 - Graduate Research
Description:
Continuation of graduate research.
Prerequisites:
Approval of graduate adviser and graduate program coordinator
Credits: 0
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Russian |
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RUSS 101 - First Semester Russian
Description:
For students with no previous training in the language.
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall Only
Credits: 4
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RUSS 102 - Second Semester Russian
Description:
Continuation of RUSS 101 .
Prerequisites:
RUSS 101 or by placement exam
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Spring Only
Credits: 4
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RUSS 211 - Third Semester Russian
Description:
Intensive grammar review, practice in reading and speaking Russian.
Prerequisites:
RUSS 102 or by placement exam
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall Only
Credits: 4
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RUSS 215 - Fourth Semester Russian
Description:
Intermediate-level grammatical structures for reading; the roots of Russian; verbs of motion. Subtitle will designate area.
Prerequisites:
RUSS 211
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Spring Only
Credits: 4
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RUSS 315 - Continuing Russian
Description:
Advanced intermediate work. Content is varied so this course, as well as RUSS 215 , can be taken by continuing students. Subtitle will designate area. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles.
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Occasionally
Credits: 4
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Safety and Health Protection |
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SHP 330 - Environmental Wellness
Description:
Insights into individual, organizational and societal activities that affect the health of the natural environment. How society, organizations and individuals impact their natural environment. How to minimize identified threats to the health of that environment. Promote intellectual consumerism and citizen advocacy.
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Ocassionally
Credits: 3
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Social Work |
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SW 261 - Introduction to Social Work and the Social Services Field
Description:
Development of social welfare; contemporary public and private programs and appropriate settings; philosophy and principles of social work; orientation to the National Association of Social Work Code of Ethics.
General Education Designation(s):
Associate: SER
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Spring
Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
Marshfield: Occasionally
Credits: 3
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SW 262 - Social Welfare Policies and Programs
Description:
Development and philosophy of social welfare as an institutional system; critical analysis of programs, policies and issues; their interrelationship with other aspects of the social system.
General Education Designation(s):
Associate: SER
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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SW 301 - Social Investigations II
Description:
Written and verbal methods of investigation and communication in Sociology and Social Work. Subtitle will designate area. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles. May not earn credit in both SW 301 and SOC 301 .
Prerequisites:
Either SOC 101 or SOC 102 , or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Spring Only
Credits: 3
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SW 303 - Ethical Practice in the Helping Professions
Description:
Provides the knowledge base required to identify ethical issues, the necessary skills to resolve ethical dilemmas, and the capacity to make ethical decisions when confronted with complex situations in social work and other helping professions. Available as graduate credit as SW 503 .
General Education Designation(s):
Associate: SER
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall. Spring, and Summer
Credits: 3
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SW 316 - Child Welfare Practice
Description:
Focus on fundamental skills and knowledge of child welfare practice that includes basic interviewing skills; assessment; case planning; protective services; extended family and foster care; family centered services; their effects on Native American and other minority cultures; and child welfare policies such as ICWA, ASFA, WI Children’s code. Available for graduate credit as SW 516 .
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall, Spring, and Summer
Credits: 3
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SW 317 - Advanced Assessment and Intervention in Child Welfare
Description:
Advanced knowledge and skills in identifying, assessing, and prosecuting child maltreatment. Responses of child welfare and criminal justice professionals to child maltreatment.
Prerequisites:
SW 316 or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall, Spring, and Summer
Credits: 3
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SW 318 - Responding to Survivors of Child Maltreatment
Description:
Impacts of child maltreatment on survivors and appropriate intervention strategies. Multidisciplinary approaches to prevention, advocacy and treatment specific to child maltreatment survivors.
Prerequisites:
SW 316 or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall, Spring, and Summer
Credits: 3
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SW 352 - Research Methods
Description:
Examine and apply social research processes from problem formulation to data analysis; includes computer applications; includes applications for social work practice. Available for graduate credit as SW 552 . May not earn credit in both SW 352 and SOC 352 .
Prerequisites:
Both SOC 350 and SOC 351 , or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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SW 359 - Social Work Methods: Casework
Description:
Principles of generic social work in Microsystems; concepts and casework practice with individuals, interviewing, relationships, social diagnosis, and treatment. Available for graduate credit as SW 559 .
Prerequisites:
Admission into Social Work Major or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall Only
Credits: 3
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SW 361 - Social Work with Groups
Description:
Principles of generalist social work practice with task and treatment groups and families; principles of model development, assessment, and treatment. Available for graduate credit as SW 561 .
Prerequisites:
Admission into Social Work Major or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Spring Only
Credits: 3
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SW 362 - Social Work Methods: Community Organizations and Social Service Administration
Description:
Principles of generalist macro practice in organizations including assessment, intervention, and program evaluation; social service administrative concerns including intraorganizational relationships, and organizational needs including supervision, research, and ethics; fundamental grant writing tools including budgets, logic models, and program outcomes. Available for graduate credit as SW 562 .
Prerequisites:
Admission into Social Work Major or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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SW 364 - Social Services in Native American Communities
Description:
Introduction to values, beliefs, customs, and histories of Native Americans emphasizing Wisconsin tribal nations and their social service needs. May not earn credit in both SW 364 and SOC 364 .
Prerequisites:
Either SOC 101 or SW 261 , or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall Only
Credits: 3
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SW 365 - Social Work Practice with Diverse Populations
Description:
Knowledge, skills, and values to provide inclusive, ethical, and evidence-based practice to diverse populations across all systems; a focus on cultural humility and intersectionality. Available for graduate credit as SW 565 .
Prerequisites:
Admission into Social Work Major or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Spring Only
Credits: 3
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SW 376 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment I: Dimensions of the Person
Description:
Interactions of biological, psychological, psychosocial and spiritual dimensions of human behavior. Integrates multidisciplinary theoretical frameworks, including theories of human development across the life span, to examine the complexity and multiple dimensions of the person and the environment as applied to social work.
Prerequisites:
Either SOC 101 or SW 261 , or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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SW 377 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment II: Dimensions of the Environment
Description:
Analyze environmental factors which affect human behavior including the physical environment, culture, social structures and movements, groups, organizations, and the community; a focus on community assessment and advocacy.
Prerequisites:
Either SOC 101 or SW 261 , or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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SW 378 - Problems in Family Interaction
Description:
Theories and modalities used in treatment of contemporary family problems. Examine families in social, economic, environmental, and cultural contexts. May not earn credit in both SW 378 and SOC 378 .
Prerequisites:
Either SOC 101 or SW 261 , or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Occasionally
Credits: 3
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SW 381 - Death, Dying, Loss and Grief
Description:
End-of-life care in the U.S., societal attitudes about death and dying, issues faced by dying individuals and their families, policy considerations, and professional approaches. The nature and centrality of the experience of dying, death, loss and grief as part of life. Self-awareness as a fundamental component of professional practice.
Credits: 3
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SW 383 - Introduction to Substance Use Disorders
Description:
Bio-psycho-social approach to understanding substance use disorders on the individual, family, and community levels. Assessment and intervention methods, including evidence-based practices. Boundaries and ethics in working with people with substance abuse disorders. Role of trauma and implications for serving diverse groups. Available for graduate credit as SW 583 .
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall Only
Credits: 3
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SW 384 - Substance Use Disorders: Advanced Practices for Recovery
Description:
Substance use disorders assessment, diagnosis, clinical evaluation, treatment planning, application of counseling theories, evidence-based interventions, and case management with diverse populations. Includes motivational interviewing, harm reduction, medication assisted treatment, relapse prevention, and recovery approaches. Available for graduate credit as SW 584 .
Prerequisites:
SW 383
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall, Spring, and Summer
Credits: 3
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SW 385 - Mental Health and Co-Occurring Disorders: Resilience and Recovery
Description:
Mental health across the lifespan including recognition of major mental health disorders and co-occurring substance use disorders for diverse populations. Introduction to the DSM-5. Key concepts include prevention, resiliency, personal and professional self-care, trauma-informed care and mental health recovery. Available for graduate credit as SW 585 .
Prerequisites:
Either PSYC 110 or SW 261
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall, Spring, and Summer
Credits: 3
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SW 387 - Emerging Issues in Social Work with Children and Youth
Description:
Contemporary concerns and practice innovations pertaining to children and youth. Mental and physical health, LGBTQIA+, school-based and community-based issues, challenges, and relevant policies. Available for graduate credit as SW 587 .
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Summer
Credits: 3
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SW 395 - Special Topics in Social Work
Description:
Subtitle will designate area. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles.
Prerequisites:
SW 261 or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Spring
Credits: 1-3
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SW 494 - Social Work Practicum
Description:
Observe and practice social work under guidance of cooperating field placement supervisors in an approved social service agency; emphasis on guided social work. May be repeated for credit for up to 9 credits.
Prerequisites:
Accepted Field Placement Application, Instructor Consent, and concurrent registration in SW 495
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall, Spring, and Summer
Credits: 1-8
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SW 495 - Social Work Practicum Seminar
Description:
Weekly meetings to discuss application of social work practice theory to the agency setting, and increase knowledge and identification with social work profession. May be repeated for credit for up to 2 credits.
Prerequisites:
Accepted Field Placement Application, Instructor Consent, and concurrent registration in SW 494
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall, Spring, and Summer
Credits: 1
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SW 498 - Social Work and Social Administration
Description:
Upperclass sociology majors or minors may arrange for independent study with cons chair. Credit based on scope of project. May be repeated for credit. May apply up to 6 credits to major.
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Spring
Credits: 1-3
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SW 503 - Ethical Practice in the Helping Professions
Description:
Provides the knowledge base required to identify ethical issues, the necessary skills to resolve ethical dilemmas, and the capacity to make ethical decisions when confronted with complex situations in social work and other helping professions. Available for undergraduate credit as SW 303 .
Credits: 3
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SW 516 - Child Welfare Practice
Description:
Focus on fundamental skills and knowledge of child welfare practice that includes basic interviewing skills; assessment; case planning; protective services; extended family and foster care; family centered services; their effects on Native American and other minority cultures; and child welfare policies such as ICWA, ASFA, WI Children’s code. Available for undergraduate credit as SW 316 .
Credits: 3
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SW 552 - Research Methods
Description:
Examine and apply social research processes from problem formulation to data analysis; includes computer applications; includes applications for social work practice. May not earn credit in both SW 552 and SOC 552 . Available for undergraduate credit as SW 352.
Prerequisites:
Both SOC 350 and SOC 351 , or Instructor Consent
Credits: 3
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SW 559 - Social Work Methods: Casework
Description:
Principles of generic social work in Microsystems; concepts and casework practice with individuals, interviewing, relationships, social diagnosis, and treatment. Available for undergraduate credit as SW 359 .
Credits: 3
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SW 561 - Social Work with Groups
Description:
Principles of generalist social work practice with task and treatment groups and families; principles of model development, assessment, and treatment. Available for undergraduate credit as SW 361 .
Credits: 3
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SW 562 - Social Work Methods: Community Organizations and Social Service Administration
Description:
Principles of generalist macro practice in organizations including assessment, intervention, and program evaluation; social service administrative concerns including intraorganizational relationships, and organizational needs including supervision, research, and ethics; fundamental grant writing tools including budgets, logic models, and program outcomes. Available for undergraduate credit as SW 362 .
Credits: 3
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SW 565 - Social Work Practice with Diverse Populations
Description:
Knowledge, skills, and values to provide inclusive, ethical, and evidence-based practice to diverse populations across all systems; a focus on cultural humility and intersectionality. Available for graduate credit as SW 365 .
Prerequisites:
Admission into the Masters of Social Work Program or Instructor Consent
Credits: 3
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SW 583 - Introduction to Substance Use Disorders
Description:
Bio-psycho-social approach to understanding substance use disorders on the individual, family, and community levels. Assessment and intervention methods, including evidence-based practices. Boundaries and ethics in working with people with substance abuse disorders. Role of trauma and implications for serving diverse groups. Available for undergraduate credit as SW 383 .
Credits: 3
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SW 584 - Substance Use Disorders: Advanced Practices for Recovery
Description:
Substance use disorders assessment, diagnosis, clinical evaluation, treatment planning, application of counseling theories, evidence-based interventions, and case management with diverse populations. Includes motivational interviewing, harm reduction, medication assisted treatment, relapse prevention, and recovery approaches. Available for undergraduate credit as SW 384 .
Prerequisites:
Either SW 383 or SW 583
Credits: 3
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SW 585 - Mental Health and Co-Occurring Disorders: Resilience and Recovery
Description:
Mental health across the lifespan including recognition of major mental health disorders and co-occurring substance use disorders for diverse populations. Introduction to the DSM-5. Key concepts include prevention, resiliency, personal and professional self-care, trauma-informed care and mental health recovery. Available for undergraduate credit as SW 385 .
Credits: 3
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SW 587 - Emerging Issues in Social Work with Children and Youth
Description:
Contemporary concerns and practice innovations pertaining to children and youth. Mental and physical health, LGBTQIA+, school-based and community-based issues, challenges, and relevant policies. Available for undergraduate credit as SW 387 .
Credits: 3
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SW 703 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment
Description:
Theories of human development across the lifespan, including interactions of biological, psychological, social, and spiritual dimensions of human behavior. Examination of the complexity and multiple dimensions of the person and the environment as applied to social work. Analysis of environmental factors that affect human behavior including the physical environment, culture, social structures and movements, family dynamics, groups, organizations, and the community.
Prerequisites:
Admission into the Masters of Social Work Program or Instructor Consent
Credits: 3
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Sociology |
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SOC 100 - Forum in Sociology or Social Work
Description:
Lecture and discussion of current social issues or topics in sociology or social work. Subtitle will designate area. May be repeated with different subtitles for up to 3 credits. 2 hrs per wk or equiv.
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Occasionally
Credits: 1 pass/fail
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SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology
Description:
Sociology as special field of social science, social relations, and social systems; the organization of societies and other human groupings; fundamentals of sociological investigation, dealing with the underlying premises, concepts, logic, and methods of sociology.
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: SS, USD
Associate: DUS, HC
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Spring
Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
Marshfield: Fall and Spring; Wausau: Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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SOC 102 - Social Problems
Description:
Theories explaining social and personal disorganization and deviation; selected contemporary problems analyzed and related to their social contexts.
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: SS, USD
Associate: DUS, SER
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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SOC 205 - Global Social Problems
Description:
Sociological analysis of the nature, extent, causes, and potential solutions to global social problems such as consumerism, poverty and wealth, human rights, population growth and hunger, health issues, militarism and terrorism, and threats to the environment.
General Education Designation(s):
Associate: SER
Credits: 3
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SOC 210 - Sociology of Sport
Description:
A survey of the past and present roles sport has played within society including its relationship to the educational system, the media, the family, and economic structures. Areas including ethnicity, social status, personality, and race will be addressed.
General Education Designation(s):
Associate: DUS, HC
Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
Marshfield: Occasionally
Credits: 3
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SOC 225 - Sociology of Childhood and Adolescence
Description:
Socialization processes in childhood and adolescent years; impact of social and cultural factors on child and adolescent issues and problems.
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: SS
Associate: HC
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Spring only
Credits: 3
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SOC 230 - Criminology
Description:
Analysis of crime as an institution, with reference to behavior of those who define, engage in, or become the victims of criminal behavior.
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: SS
Associate: HC
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall Only
Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
Marshfield: Fall Only; Wausau: Fall Only
Credits: 3
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SOC 238 - Sociological Perspectives on Gender
Description:
Role of gender in everyday life, how gender influences social institutions such as family, government, and mass media, and the effect of gender inequalities both in American society and cross-culturally.
General Education Designation(s):
Associate: HC
Credits: 3
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SOC 240 - Marriage and the Family
Description:
Marriage and the family as social institutions in a changing world. Historical changes and societal variations in family patterns. Changes over the life cycle. Explores the sources and consequences of a variety of family forms.
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: CT
Associate: HC
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall Only
Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
Marshfield: Occasionally
Credits: 3
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SOC 250 - Organizations and Society
Description:
Role of organizations, including business, governmental, and educational, in American society. Impact of organizations on members and clients, the internal dynamics of organizations, and the interchange between organizations and their environment, including the society as a whole.
General Education Designation(s):
Associate: HC
Credits: 3
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SOC 270 - Race and Ethnicity
Description:
Race and ethnic relations and inequalities; prejudice and discrimination; social construction of racial and ethnic identity; and racial and ethnic composition of the U.S. population.
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: SS, USD
Associate: DUS, IK
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Occasionally
Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
Marshfield: Fall Only; Wausau: Spring Only
Credits: 3
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SOC 300 - The American Community
Description:
Community organization and social processes that influence community behavior and change. Available for graduate credit as SOC 500 .
Prerequisites:
Either SOC 101 or SOC 102 , or Instructor Consent
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: SS
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Spring Only
Credits: 2 or 3
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SOC 301 - Social Investigations II
Description:
Written and verbal methods of investigation and communication in Sociology and Social Work. Subtitle will designate area. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles. May not earn credit in both SOC 301 and SW 301 .
Prerequisites:
Either SOC 101 or SOC 102 , or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall, Spring, and Summer
Credits: 3
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SOC 306 - Social Aspects of Substance Abuse
Description:
Social aspects of alcohol, cocaine, heroin, and other drugs. Emphasis on prevention, cause, treatment, and social policies. Available for graduate credit as SOC 506 .
Prerequisites:
SOC 101 or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Spring Only
Credits: 3
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SOC 308 - Sociology of Medicine
Description:
Analysis of the social organization of medicine and health care delivery systems; social processes and conditions of disease and health, such as adaptations to illness, the sick role, and doctor-patient relationship. Available for graduate credit as SOC 508 .
Prerequisites:
Either SOC 101 or SOC 102 , or Instructor Consent
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: SS
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall Only
Credits: 3
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SOC 310 - Social Psychology
Description:
How social learning and habits relate to development of the social self in groups: interaction, perception, motivation, attitudes, values, communication, roles in interpersonal relations.
Prerequisites:
Either SOC 101 or SOC 102 , or Instructor Consent
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: SS
Associate: HC
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Occasionally
Credits: 3
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SOC 320 - Sociology of Gender
Description:
Examine the role of gender in everyday life, how gender influences social institutions such as family, government and mass media and the effect of gender inequalities both in American society and cross-culturally.
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: SS, USD
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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SOC 327 - Social Inequality
Description:
Analyze patterns of inequality in the distribution of power, rewards, and opportunities between classes and other groups. Available for graduate credit as SOC 527 .
Prerequisites:
Either SOC 101 or SOC 102 , or Instructor Consent
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: SS
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Spring Only
Credits: 3
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SOC 329 - Gender and Crime
Description:
An in-depth survey of changing social values about gender, crime and criminal justice. Explores theories addressing gender in criminality and gender disparities in the criminal justice system. Available for graduate credit as SOC 529 .
Credits: 3
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SOC 330 - Victimology
Description:
An overview of the history, theories, and concepts of victimology; analysis of victimization patterns, trends, and impacts on the lives of the victims; an examination of the criminal justice system from the perspective of the victim; a survey of victim programs and services. Available for graduate credit as SOC 530 .
Credits: 3
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SOC 332 - Juvenile Delinquency
Description:
Definition and sociological explanations of juvenile delinquency; individual and gang forms; control and treatment.
Prerequisites:
Either SOC 101 or SOC 102 , or Instructor Consent
General Education Designation(s):
Associate: HC
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Spring Only
Credits: 3
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SOC 333 - Corrections
Description:
Control and treatment of offenders.
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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SOC 334 - Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice
Description:
An examination of race in the context of the criminal justice system. Emphasis on the treatment of racial minorities as victims and offenders by law enforcement, courts, and corrections. Available for graduate credit as SOC 534 .
Credits: 3
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SOC 335 - Deviance
Description:
Introduces the sociology of deviance: the definition of deviance; types of deviant behavior such as suicide, drugs and alcohol abuse, sexual deviance, deviant subcultures and violence; differential labeling and institutional processing; and implications of social control. Available for graduate credit as SOC 535 .
Credits: 3
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SOC 340 - Community Research
Description:
Methods and practice of applied research in community-based organizations.
Prerequisites:
SOC 101
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Occasionally
Credits: 3
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SOC 343 - Cultural Perspectives of Family
Description:
The family as social institution, its place in different culture/social strata, impact of industrialization and urbanization.
Prerequisites:
Either SOC 101 or SOC 102 , or Instructor Consent
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: GA
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall Only
Credits: 3
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SOC 344 - Interpersonal Violence
Description:
History, theory, policy, and trends associated with interpersonal violence in the US and globally, including partner violence, child maltreatment, elder abuse, and other related topics. Available for graduate credit as SOC 544 .
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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SOC 345 - Community Corrections
Description:
An introduction to the field of community corrections including sentencing, probation, parole, fines, community service, and intermediate sanctions such as intensive supervision, house arrest/electronic monitoring, and boot camps. Available for graduate credit as SOC 545 .
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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SOC 350 - Applied Social Theory
Description:
History, content, construction, and application of social theories. Available for graduate credit as SOC 550 .
Prerequisites:
SOC 101 or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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SOC 351 - Social Statistics
Description:
Descriptive and inferential statistics; use statistical software to analyze sociological data. 3 hrs lec, 2 hrs lab per wk. Available for graduate credit as SOC 551 .
Prerequisites:
MATH 90 or equivalent
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: QL
Associate: QL-AD
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Spring
Credits: 4
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SOC 352 - Research Methods
Description:
Examine and apply social research processes from problem formulation to data analysis; includes computer applications; includes applications for social work practice. May not earn credit in both SOC 352 and SW 352 . Available for graduate credit as SOC 552 .
Prerequisites:
Either SOC 351 or PSYC 300 , or Instructor Consent
General Education Designation(s):
Associate: CCT
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Spring
Credits: 3
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SOC 355 - Environmental Sociology
Description:
Socio-cultural foundations of our relationship with the natural environment. Relationship between environmental degradation and social, political, and economic structures. Beliefs and values about the environment and their expression in various forms of environmentalism and environmental movements. Presentation of environmental issues in cultural, political, and scientific domains. Available for graduate credit as SOC 555 .
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: ER, SS
Associate: SER
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall Only
Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
Marshfield: Occasionally
Credits: 3
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SOC 356 - Urban Sociology
Description:
Comparative and historical approach to cities; spatial structure, social interactions, and social stratification in urban areas; ecological factors; urban governance and placemaking; implications for policy and planning.
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: SS, USD
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall Only
Credits: 3
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SOC 357 - Sociology of Planning
Description:
Social context of policymaking and planning process; theoretical approaches to planning; planning and social change; specific topics in planning (city and regional, social service, environment).
Prerequisites:
Either SOC 101 or SOC 102 , or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Occasionally
Credits: 3
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SOC 360 - Population Problems
Description:
Demography, population theory, trends, and analysis; United States and world population.
Prerequisites:
One of the following: SOC 101 , SOC 102 , or ECON 110
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: ER, SS
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Spring Only
Credits: 3
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SOC 364 - Social Services in Native American Communities
Description:
Introduction to values, beliefs, customs, and histories of Native Americans emphasizing Wisconsin tribal nations and their social service needs. May not earn credit in both SW 364 and SOC 364.
Prerequisites:
Either SOC 101 or SW 261 , or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall Only
Credits: 3
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SOC 366 - Sociology of Aging
Description:
Sociological theories/methods used to study aging; processes affecting social status of older people and social attitudes toward them; impact of increasing numbers of elderly on institutions of American society.
Prerequisites:
Either SOC 101 or SOC 102 , or Instructor Consent
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: SS
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall and Summer
Credits: 3
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SOC 367 - Social Epidemiology
Description:
Examines theories/concepts, empirical evidence, methods, interventions, and policies concerning social determinants of health. Available for graduate credit as SOC 567 .
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: SS, USD
Associate: DUS
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
As Needed
Credits: 3
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SOC 368 - Sociology of Mental Health
Description:
Sociological perspectives and interpretations in the nature and causes of mental disorders. Theories of controlling mental illness, the development of mental health policies in the United States and strategies of preventive and community psychiatry. Available for graduate credit as SOC 568 .
Prerequisites:
Either SOC 101 or SOC 102 , or Instructor Consent
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: SS
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall Only
Credits: 3
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SOC 370 - Sociology of Globalization
Description:
Theories, problems, and processes of social and cultural change in various cultures resulting from internal and external social forces.
General Education Designation(s):
Bachelor: GA, SS
Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
Fall Only
Credits: 3
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