Courses
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- Offered: Winter
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: RE 510 or Instructor Permission
An overview of leadership and management for ORNBT organizations. This course will discuss human resources, leadership, organizational risk management, insurance, finance, and accounting for both public and private ORNBT organizations.
- Offered: Winter
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: RE 510 or Instructor Permission
This course approaches the issue of human health from the perspective of engagement with the natural environment in multiple contexts of outdoor recreation. These contexts may include leisure service programming, personal and group recreation, college outdoor recreation programs, guided experiences and outdoor education, non-prescribed outdoor recreation interventions, and other types of outdoor recreation.
- Offered: Fall
- Graded: A/F
Students will apply social psychology to an important aspect of human lives, leisure behavior in outdoor recreation.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: Enrollment in the Master’s of Science in the Administration of Outdoor Recreation and Nature-based Tourism
This course allows the student to develop and/or carry out an independent research project leading to the student’s Thesis or Creative Project.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: ED 500, ED 505, and Committee acceptance of project
Under the guidance of an advisor, the student will identify a practical issue associated with ORNBT and develop an advanced project that will support an issue or solve a problem in the field.
- Offered: Summer
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: ED 500
This seminar course is a five day, on-campus experience designed to allow students to present research completed, explore research ideas, develop a cohort with other students, and work face to face with AORNBT faculty. Students will be expected to attend the seminar twice, once after their first year in the program to develop thesis and creative project ideas, then after their final semester to present and defend their thesis or creative project.
Note: RE 591 will be taken two times in the AORNBT MS program.
- Offered: Fall Winter
- Graded: S/U
- Prerequisites: ED 500 , ED 505, and Committee Approval
The student develops a thesis with the help of a thesis committee. Appropriate thesis forms must be completed prior to enrollment. The thesis must be approved by the thesis committee and the College of Graduate Studies. The student should consult the department and the College of Graduate Studies for specific requirements.
- Prerequisites: Completion of requirements for baccalaureate degree or graduate standing; clinic director's permission
- Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
- Prerequisites: Completion of requirements for baccalaureate degree or graduate standing, or consent of instructor
- Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
The process of formally evaluating rhetorical activity, including songs, humor, films and television. As they learn the process of criticism, students survey a variety of communication events that have had a lasting impact on American culture.
Understanding the social and cultural foundations for and strategic and tactical dimensions of the effective promotion of environmental policy, including the psychology of environmental communication; historical and cultural analyses of environmental rhetoric; environmental communication in government, business and communities; and the role of the media.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and department head
Independent study under the supervision of a member of the department. Supervisor and study must be selected prior to enrollment in the course and appropriate directed study forms must be completed. The content of the course does not duplicate existing course content.
The student develops a thesis with the help of a thesis committee. Appropriate thesis forms must be completed prior to enrollment. The thesis must be approved by the thesis committee and the College of Graduate Studies. The student should consult the department and the College of Graduate Studies for specific requirements.
- Offered: Fall
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Acceptance into MSW Program
This course emphasizes a direct practice approach to social work, focused on techniques used during the intervention stage of a social work intervention. This course emphasizes knowledge and skill development relating to the direct-practice relationship, emphasizing work with individuals in a therapeutic setting.
- Offered: Winter
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Acceptance into MSW Program
Clinical Methods with Couples, Families and Groups emphasizes a direct practice approach to social work, primarily focused on techniques used during the intervention stage. This course emphasizes knowledge and skill development relating to the direct-practice relationship, emphasizing work with couples, families and groups in a therapeutic setting.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: None
This course covers content from SW 511 and SW512 in an accelerated format and was designed for students who’ve previously earned an undergraduate social work degree from a CSWE accredited institution and been admitted to the Advanced Standing MSW Track. Clinical Methods reviews the direct practice approach to social work, focused on techniques used during the intervention stage of a social work intervention. This course emphasizes knowledge and skill development relating to the direct-practice relationship, emphasizing work with individuals, couples, families and groups in a therapeutic setting. Students will review foundational methods essential to effective intervention, and a variety of evidence-based therapeutic intervention methods that can be used in each setting.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: None
This course is a primary building block in an advanced generalist social work curriculum with a focus on macro-practice with organizations and communities. The course provides students with the opportunity to practice engagement and assessment skills and helps them develop an understanding of themselves as leaders in the macro-social environment.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisites: SO101, or SW 101, or AN 101, or HL111 or instructor’s approval
This course provides an inter-disciplinary comprehensive overview of death, dying, and grief. The course examines the structure of the human response to death, dying, and grief in their socio-cultural, interpersonal, and individual contexts. Theories, research, and implications for practitioners will be discussed. Upon completion of the course, students will be able to apply principles and evidence-based tools to enhance their professional and personal life related to grief.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: None
This course is designed for students who’ve previously earned an undergraduate social work degree from a CSWE accredited institution and been admitted to the Advanced Standing MSW Track. This course combines content related to leadership in communities and organizations with public welfare policy analysis and advocacy.
- Offered: Winter
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: SW 511 or SW 529 or Instructor approval
This course is an examination of the psychological and physiological impacts traumatic experiences may have on individuals, families and operating systems of care. This course will examine the neuroscientific revolutions in understanding the brain and body connection for children, adolescents and adult survivors of trauma. This course will provide an overview of evidenced based and creative interventions that can be effective when serving individuals who have experienced traumatic life events.
- Offered: Fall
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Admission to the MSW program or Instructor approval
Perspectives on conceptualizing substance use, misuse and addiction are explored in a variety of historical, cultural and global contexts. Emphasis is placed on understanding the reasons for problematic substance use and social constructs that contribute to substance use. A variety of prevention tools are explored throughout the course, as well as social policies that perpetuate and conversely, prevent substance use.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: Acceptance into the MSW program or instructor approval
This course will explore the neurochemical, physical and mental effects of commonly used psychoactive substances on the human biological system. Emphasis is placed on the basic pharmacology of psychoactive drugs, the medical consequences of compulsive illicit use, and therapeutic approaches for managing substance use disorders. This course will also review the four major classes of drugs that are of clinical significance in treating co-occuring disorders.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: None
This course introduces the student to scientific research methods used in generalist social work practice. Topics include the role of concepts and theory, problem formulation and definition, hypothesis formulation, operationalization and measurement, research design and causality, data collection and data analysis, measures of central tendency, and report writing.
- Graded: A/F
- Prerequisites: None
This course reviews major concepts in scientific research methods for students who have previously earned an undergraduate social work degree from a CSWE accredited institution and been admitted to the Advanced Standing MSW Track. Topics are presented in an accelerated format and include the role of concepts and theory, problem formulation and definition, hypothesis formulation, operationalization and measurement, research design and causality, data collection and data analysis, measures of central tendency, and report writing.