This engaging and accessible supplemental course will give you a basic understanding of human biology and how it relates to human behavior and the social environment. It successfully integrates social work theory with human biology theory

This introductory course integrates concept of social work with empowerment, strengths, and human rights and social justice. It incorporates strengths and empowerment perspective while examining values and ethics, cultural diversity, social justice and human rights, social work practice, human behavior, populations at risk, and policy and services.

This course introduces and incorporates current research on biological, psychological, socio-cultural, and spiritual dimensions of human behavior. Course pay particular attention to models of racial, ethnic, class, gender and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender identity-development; to influences of gender, sexual orientation, social class, race/ culture on family structure and function.

This course offers a practical introduction to the theories and skills necessary to engage in effective, strengths-based practice. Direct Practice for Social Work interweaves diversity and social justice throughout the topics and teaches you how to make the connections between major theories and real-world situations.

This course offers a comprehensive look at child maltreatment, incorporating history of child abuse. Course covers history of child welfare, gives an overview of functional and dysfunctional families, and contrasts healthy child development with development hampered by abuse and neglect. It concludes with discussion of prevention and consideration of future.

This course offers generalist view of breadth and scope of human services. It uses various practice settings as a lens for examining role and functions of human service professional. Exploring nature of working with individuals, families, or groups is more meaningful when explored within the context of particular practice setting.

This course blends ecosystems and strengths-based approaches along with diversity competent practice into a change process that social workers can use with diverse individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. It provides you with solid foundation for generalist social-work practice. It has strong theoretical framework that reflects modern theory and methods.

This course provides you with a comprehensive overview of social welfare policy in the United States while examining cutting-edge issues. It continues to focus on how the major sectors of social welfare policy, voluntary, governmental, and corporate-sectors, operate and co-exist ("pluralist approach"), while offering clear, user-friendly framework for policy analysis.

With a strong emphasis on translating counseling theory into practice, this course overviews field of counseling, including foundational counseling theories and human development theories, different types of counseling (e.g., marriage and family therapy, group counseling, substance abuse counseling, etc.), and counseling practice in different settings like schools and community agencies.

This research methods course for social work is accessible to you in level and writing style. Qualitative research methods are discussed and appropriate examples are offered throughout the course. Course includes information on needs assessment, how research data is collected, and information on ethical issues, data collection, analysis and evaluation.

This course helps build your confidence and ability in doing statistical analysis by slowly moving from concepts that require little computational work. It emphasizes analysis and interpretation of data to give you a feel for how data interpretation is related to the methods by which the information was obtained.

This classic introductory social work course provides a comprehensive and historical view of social work. It blends historical and contemporary perspectives on social work, offering historical context for development of social work. Special emphasis is placed on understanding that social work is both a field and method.

Placing an emphasis on global perspectives and current research, this course introduces you to the field of sociology. The course blends the field of sociology to all the features and aspects of society; presenting you with a clear and concise view of sociology and society.

Known for its engaging writing style this course presents introduction to human services market. It provides complete coverage of social welfare programs and policies, and describes how history, politics, and economy shape programs. It puts the field of human services into historical context, provides insights into overall social welfare field.