Fall Semester 2000 through Summer Semester 2002
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Fall Semester 2000 through Summer Semester 2002
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Mission-accreditation: The mission of the Social Work major is to prepare students as beginning-level generalist social-work practitioners who are committed to the basic value of human dignity and the individual's right to determine his or her destiny guided by freedom, justice, and fairness. The program offers students the values and ethics, knowledge, and skills necessary to meet human needs and improve the social conditions under which persons grow and develop, focusing on diversity and vulnerable populations.
Social Work offers a basic understanding of the human service system as it addresses current social concerns. The core social work curriculum prepares students for practice in diverse settings, such as child welfare, health, mental health, criminal justice, aging, community organization, and other areas of human service practice, in varied roles.
Graduates are eligible for membership in the National Association of Social Workers and/or the National Association of Black Social Workers, and are eligible to take the social-work licensure exam in Ohio. The program is fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.
Application to the major may be submitted at the point of matriculation at the university in the College of Arts and Sciences, or any time thereafter, at which time the student is assigned an advisor in Social Work. The major in Social Work is designed to prepare the student to seek careers in a vast number of public and private organizations that provide human services utilizing generalist social-work practitioners. Social Work is a professional degree which requires licensure to practice in most private agencies.
To acquaint potential students with the profession of social work and the Social Work major at Cleveland State University, the department conducts orientation sessions which are designed to provide information about the profession, its history, fields of practice, current trends and social issues, career opportunities, as well as the mission of the Department and the admission and curriculum requirements for majors. The prerequisites for entering the Social Work core curriculum for the major requires the student to:
 | Have a cumulative 2.20 grade point average and complete Introduction to Social Work, American Government and one Human Biology course |
| Submit one letter of reference from either a teacher/professor, employer, religious leader, or a health or human services professional |
| Submit a completed college checklist from Arts and Sciences |
Majors are assigned a faculty advisor to individually guide and direct the student to ensure that the maximum benefit is gained in the pursuit of the social-work degree. Pre-major advising is available for those students who are interested in exploring the social-work profession as a major field of study.
A Social Work major must maintain a 2.5 cumulative grade point average in the social-work core curriculum and a 2.2 cumulative grade point average overall in the university. All majors are assigned a faculty advisor to assist the student in establishing objectives, planning a program, and course sequencing. Students must maintain regular contact with their advisor.
The Social Work major is founded upon a liberal arts perspective which requires 20 credits in liberal arts courses and 45 credits in the core social work curriculum. The Practice Sequence courses are restricted to social-work majors. Social Work majors are required to complete the prescribed curriculum.
Liberal Arts Perspective: Biology: 4 credits. The department requires Biology and Man: Basic Concepts or Biology and Man: Reproduction and Development or Biology and Man: Heredity.
Social and Behavioral Sciences: 3 credits each in prerequisite courses such as American government and additional 18 credits taken in department-approved courses. Twelve credits in at least three of the following fields must be completed prior to entry to the interventions sequence: anthropology, communications, economics, political science (excluding PSC 111), psychology, and sociology. An additional 6 credits in these and/or related fields are required. These courses shall be selected through advising.
Core Requirements (45 credit hours)
Completion of a major in Social Work depends upon successful completion of two semesters of student practice in a field placement. Premajors with little or no previous exposure to the human service field are advised, therefore, to explore their potential effectiveness and satisfaction in working directly in human service.
Students are required to obtain a grade of "B" or better in Interventions I & II, Field Practicum I & II, and Field Seminar I & II. Students receiving less than a "B" in Interventions I and/or Field Practicum I and/or Field Seminar I may not proceed in the major without review and assessment by the department Admissions and Continuance Committee.
Elective courses include:
Criminal justice electives help prepare students for work in law enforcement (i.e., as police officers, park rangers, or customs agents) or corrections (i.e., as probation or parole officers, or prison social workers).
Students must take the following Criminal Justice core electives:
| PSC 310 Constitutional Law |
| SWK 240 Administration of Justice |
| SWK 470 Problems and Issues in Criminal Justice |
Students who wish to emphasize law enforcement must take the following electives:
| SOC 340 Criminology |
| PSC 301 Urban Politics and Policy |
| SWK 259 The Child, the Family and the Law |
| SWK 371 Constitutional Criminal Procedure |
| SWK 374 Law Enforcement and Society |
| SWK 375 Criminal Law |
Students who wish to emphasize corrections must take the following electives:
| SWK 259 The Child, the Family and the Law |
| SWK 340 Legal Aspects of Human Services |
| SWK 341 Corrections: Institutional and Community-Based |
| SWK 342 Prisoner's Rights |
Any two courses from the Law Enforcement course listed above, excluding SWK 259.
