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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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SOWK 3943 - Social Welfare Policy


3 (3-0)

Prerequisite(s): POLS 1433 , SOWK 2423 , and ECON 1333  or 2333 .

This course introduces substantive issues of social welfare policy in the United States. It presents an historical overview of major policies as responses to social problems, and it explores the role of social work in policy development, implementation, and analysis. Emphasis is placed upon the ways in which policy informs practice at micro, mezzo, and macro systemic levels and upon the importance of policy in work with special populations. Only social work students may take this course.


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