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2010-2011 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

This section of the Catalog includes course descriptions, listed alphabetically by discipline. The descriptions provide information on course numbers, titles, the level of instruction, credit, course sequence, content, and prerequisites as shown in the following example:

CHE 2100 Introduction to Organic and Biological Chemistry

5
(4 + 2)
Prerequisite: CHE 1100
A study of the elements of organic and biological chemistry. This course satisfies requirements for nursing programs and other fields requiring a survey of organic and biological chemistry.

The first three to four letters, called the course subject code, represent the area of study or discipline, e.g., CHE represents chemistry. The course number follows the course subject code, e.g., 2100. The first digit in a four-digit course number designates the level of instruction. Only courses numbered 1000 or above will be included in credits toward a degree. Courses with numbers up to and including 1999 are primarily for freshmen, 2000 through 2999 primarily for sophomores, 3000 through 3999 primarily for juniors, and 4000 through 4999 primarily for seniors. In general, students should not take courses above the level of their class (based upon semester hours earned), but they may do so at one level above if they have the specified prerequisites. In special cases, students may be permitted to take courses more than one level above that designated for their class if they obtain the permission of their advisor and of the faculty member teaching the course and if they meet the prerequisite requirements. Following each course number is the semester hours of credit. As an example, CHE 2100-5 is a freshman-level, five-credit course. After the course number and is the course title, which is followed by the number of credit hours (5) and a second set of numbers in parentheses indicating the division of time between lecture, laboratory, field experience, or—in music—performance. The first number represents the number of lecture hours each week of a 15-16 week semester; the second number indicates the number of laboratory, shop, or field hours; and the third (in music) represents performance hours. For example, CHE 2100 Introduction to Organic and Biological Chemistry has four hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory each week. Lecture hours equate one hour per week of contact to one credit hour; laboratory experience equates two hours of contact per week to one credit hour. Therefore, CHE 2100, 5(4+2) would earn five hours of credit—four for lecture and one for laboratory work. Course descriptions provide a summary of the content of the course. If there is a prerequisite that must be met before a student can register for the course, this information is listed above the course description. Attributes, such as Multicultural, General Studies, or Guaranteed Transfer, are listed after the course description.  A list of courses being offered in a given semester, instructors, class meeting times, and locations is described in the Class Schedule located on Metro State’s Web site (http://www.mscd.edu).
 
  

  • SPE 3050 - Intercollegiate Forensics

    1(0 + 2)

    Prerequisite: SPE 1010 or Permission of instructor

    A course for those students participating extensively in intercollegiate speech activities.A maximum of four credits in this course may be applied toward a degree.
  

  • SPE 3080 - Great American Speakers

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 1010 and satisfaction of Level I General Studies course requirements

    This course critically examines the primary theses developed in selected major American speeches. This critical analysis includes an examination of the rhetorical skills of the speaker based on the persuasive models of Aristotle, Burke and Griffen, and more. Estimates of the influence of such great speeches on public policy will be surveyed as a measurement of the success of such oral discourse.(General Studies—Level II, Arts and Letters)
  

  • SPE 3090 - Argumentation and Advocacy

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 1010 or Permission of instructor

    This course acquaints the student with the complexity of social problems, methods of research, methods of logical analysis and development, construction of briefs, and techniques of refutation. Includes practice in preparation and oral analysis of selected arguments.
  

  • SPE 3100 - Business and Professional Speaking

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 1010 or Permission of instructor

    This course focuses on the processes involved in effective speaking in business and industry with emphasis on preparing and delivering presentations to organizational audiences including the use of audio-visual materials as they relate to the communication process in organizations at the interpersonal level. Students will polish communication skills in preparation for some of the unique speaking situations found in modern organizations.
  

  • SPE 3110 - Organizational Leadership

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 1010 and either SPE 2110 or SPE 2710

    This course is designed to acquaint students with the major theories of organizational leadership and the functional dimensions of leadership strategy in specific organizational systems.
  

  • SPE 3130 - Conference Leadership

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 1010 and SPE 3110, or Permission of instructor

    This course provides students with knowledge of the theories of group task and process behaviors and the practical application of that theory in the actual production of a conference. The course focuses on the motivation of volunteers and the appropriate styles of leadership when authority is not granted to the conference director.
  

  • SPE 3160 - Communication in Politics

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 1010 or Permission of the instructor

    This course acquaints students with the complexities of communication issues and strategies used in and by a variety of governmental bodies. This course emphasizes communication patterns in government institutions, the role and strategies of public influence and change on policy creation, the nature and ethics of campaign strategies and propaganda tactics, the responsibility of media in public decision-making, and the impact of communication leadership and group dynamics on the resolution of political and social issues.
  

  • SPE 3165 - Organizational Identity

    3(3 +0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 2160; or permission of instructor

    This course focuses on the communication foundations of organizational identity formation, maintenance and change.  Course materials demonstrate the criteria of ligitimate organizational identity both internally and externally.  Students will identify how communication functions in the creation of organizational culture and how messages and actions create an identitiy for an organization in environmental contexts.  Students explore organizational identity in selected case studies and investigate other organizations through ethnographic observations in assigned service learning experiences.
  

  • SPE 3170 - Interpersonal Negotiation

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 1700 and either SPE 1710 or SPE 2710

    This course is designed to teach students the theory and specific negotiation skills needed for resolving interpersonal group and organizational conflict. These skills include identification of conflict issues, fractionating of issues, positioning methods, questioning tactics, measuring negotiated consequences, identifying a negotiated style, managing difficult people, mediating theory and tactics, third-party interventions, and negotiating frames. Both lecture/discussion and simulated case studies are used to illustrate negotiation principles.
  

  • SPE 3301 - Rhetorical Foundations of Communication

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 2301

    This course is an historical survey of some of the major theories of rhetoric as they apply to the discipline of communication.  Topics include rhetoric as it relates to ethics, broadcast media, organizations, small groups and teams, and interpersonal contexts.  Students in the course will apply contemporary rhetorical theory to understand power, identity, and knowledge.
  

  • SPE 3430 - Radio–Television Announcing

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 2400 or Permission of instructor

    This is an advanced course in “on air” operations designed to meet the specific needs of the broadcaster and the radio-television-film announcer. Instruction is designed to develop pleasing and persuasive verbal-vocal-nonverbal communication as a means of improving a variety of presentations. Special emphasis will be placed on standard American usage of speech and language.
  

  • SPE 3440 - Television Production

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 2400 or Permission of instructor

    This course is an introduction to television production, operation of broadcast studio equipment, vocabulary, and experience in direction of multi-camera productions. Specific attention is focused on preproduction, including identification of audience by age, gender, and culture. Students will participate in production activities and procedures on a variety of projects.
  

  • SPE 3450 - Broadcast Journalism: Radio

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: JRN 2100 or Permission of instructor

    This course is an introduction to radio news writing. Students learn how broadcast news copy differs from print journalism. It involves learning the techniques of writing in the broadcast style used in newsrooms.
  

  • SPE 3460 - Audio Production

    3(1 + 4)

    Prerequisite: SPE 2400 or Permission of instructor

    This course is a hands-on, practical guide for beginning and intermediate recording engineers, producers, musicians, and audio enthusiasts offering experiences in a variety of recording situations. Students will learn how to judge recordings and to use the equipment available to improve them.
  

  • SPE 3480 - Workshop in Radio Production

    3(1 + 4)

    Prerequisite: SPE 2400 and SPE 3430, or six hours of equivalent broadcasting courses and/or experience, or Permission of the instructor

    This course provides students with an opportunity to produce radio programs for audiences for use on commercial and/or public radio.
  

  • SPE 3490 - Cinema as Communication

    3(2 + 2)

    Prerequisite: SPE 2400 or ENG 2860; or Permission of instructor

    Students in this course will learn to critique how films communicate to a mass audience, including considerations such as rhetoric, ideology, performance, and spectatorship. Assigned work will include reading in communication theory as well as writing an essay that critiques a particular film as an instance of communication art or science, or both. Class time includes lab hours during which various films will be screened.
  

  • SPE 3710 - High Performance Teams

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 2710 and SPE 3160; or permission of instructor

    This course focuses on the communication underlying the development and management of high performance teams.  Students develop the skill to lead and participate effectively in such teams; identify the processes requires to create such teams; identify processes required to create training plans for productive teamwork.  Students are assigned to a high performance team with a specific task outcome to achieve. Class exercises and activities assist the group members to navigate the dynamics of team development in order to achieve the desired task outcome.
  

  • SPE 3740 - Psychology of Communication

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 1010 and satisfaction of all Level I General Studies course requirements; or Permission of Instructor

    This course critically examines the psychological factors underlying speech comprehension, the speaker’s adjustment to an audience, the listener’s sets and responses, and the attitudes, beliefs and predispositions of hearers toward human communication.This is not a psychology course.(General Studies—Level II, Arts and Letters)
  

  • SPE 3760 - Cultural Influences on Communication

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 1010 and satisfaction of Level I General Studies course requirements as well as one of the following: SPE 1710, SPE 2710, or SPE 2720

    This course examines the relationship between communication and cultural identity (histories, values, beliefs, traditions, and contributions). The ultimate goal of the course is to broaden students’ perspectives of the power of communication to shape our lived experience and to expand students’ capacities to adapt ethically to a changing and diverse world. Students will explore verbal and nonverbal differences and similarities across cultures and critique the role of ethnocentrism, bias, prejudice, and discrimination. Particular emphasis will be given to protected classes and co-cultures within the larger U.S. culture.(General Studies - Level II, Arts and Letters, Multicultural)
  

  • SPE 3770 - Family Communication

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 1710 or SPE 2710

    This course is designed to assist students to better understand and improve interpersonal communication processes in families, including dual-career communication problems, personality patterns, family group roles and their impact on interaction, verbal and nonverbal messages in family contexts, and managing family interpersonal conflict and change.
  

  • SPE 3981 - Internship in Broadcast Journalism

    3(1 + 9)

    Prerequisite: SPE 3450

    This course gives students an internship experience working as a broadcast journalist at a television station, radio station, or another broadcast media outlet where they are able to use the skills learned in the classroom in a supervised, professional setting.
  

  • SPE 3982 - Internship in Broadcast Performance

    9-Mar(1 + 9-27)

    Prerequisite: SPE 2400 and SPE 3430

    This course gives students an internship experience working as talent at a television station, radio station or other broadcast media outlet where they are able to use the skills learned in the classroom in a supervised, professional setting.
  

  • SPE 3983 - Internship in Broadcast Production

    9-Mar(1 + 9-27)

    Prerequisite: SPE 2400, SPE 3440 and SPE 3480

    This course gives students an internship experience working in production at a television station, radio station or other broadcast media outlet where they are able to use the skills learned in the classroom in a supervised, professional setting.
  

  • SPE 4050 - Advanced Intercollegiate Forensics

    2(0 + 4)

    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor For students participating extensively in competitive intercollegiate speech activities

    A maximum of 8-hours credit may be applied toward a degree.
  

  • SPE 4080 - Rhetorical Criticism of Public Address

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 1010 and junior/Senior standing, or Permission of instructor

    This course focuses on the historical and critical methodologies for analyzing rhetorical efforts, both from the points of view of an intellectual discipline and as a practical art in a democratic society.
  

  • SPE 4090 - Classical Rhetoric

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 1010, and satisfaction of all Level I and Level II General Studies course requirements, and Senior standing; or Permission of instructor

    This course acquaints students with the classical traditions of rhetorical theory including the presophists, sophists, Aristotle, Plato, Isocrates, Cicero, Quintilian, etc. Standards of “ethical persuasion” and the responsibilities of rhetorical persuasion are examined in-depth.(Senior Experience)
  

  • SPE 4100 - Techniques of Persuasion

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 3090 or Permission of instructor

    A critical investigation of the factors that influence individuals and groups through the media of persuasive rhetorical campaigns. Course involves specific investigation and analysis of 20th century persuasive campaigns. Students will have opportunities to develop persuasive campaigns in various rhetorical areas.
  

  • SPE 4120 - Freedom of Speech

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 1010, or Permission of instructor, satisfaction of all Level I and Level II General Studies course requirements, and Senior standing

    This course is a study of the historical and social influences with inquiry into the legacy of our inherited rights to free speech. This course examines and refines the First Amendment’s clause on freedom of speech and the press, threats to this freedom, and special inquiry into contemporary issues and cases.(Senior Experience)
  

  • SPE 4160 - Advanced Organizational Communication

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 2160 and SPE 3170 or Permission of instructor

    This course acquaints students with organizational communication structural designs, as well as methods/models for analyzing/auditing the effectiveness of such organizational communication systems. The course also addresses implementing organizational communication change through communication processes.
  

  • SPE 4301 - Communication Ethics

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 3301

    This course identifies key perspectives in communication ethics.  Topics include civility, morality/integrity, duty, the self as an ethical agent, workplace ethics, and ethics online.  Students will apply ethical principles to a variety of communication contexts including interpersonal, small group, team, organizations, and mediated situations.  Using case studies, discussion, and analysis of Internet sites students can develop insight about ethical issues and apply ethical perspectives to a variety of communication situations.
  

  • SPE 4310 - Trends in Communication Studies: Variable Topics

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 4300 and at least junior standing

    The purpose of this special topics course is to introduce students to an in depth discussion of issues or research within the field of communication studies.  The course may be taken for up to 9 credit hours under different titles.
  

  • SPE 4440 - Advanced Television Production

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 3440

    This course is an advanced course in television production with projects in both the studio and the field. Specific attention is focused on the production process. Students will participate in a variety of projects.
  

  • SPE 4450 - Writing for Broadcast Journalism

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 3450

    This course is designed to help students develop writing skills for a broad array of media.  Students will also study journalism ethics and the law as it applies to broadcast news.
  

  • SPE 4470 - TV Criticism: Production and Content

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 3440 or Permission of instructor

    This course analyzes contemporary television programming for aesthetics and effectiveness. All production elements and the content of programs are critiqued to create a more discerning audience and/or program creator.
  

  • SPE 4480 - Seminar Practicum in Broadcasting

    3(1 + 4)

    Prerequisite: SPE 3480 or Permission of instructor

    This is an advanced course in radio production that offers an opportunity to supervise a variety of productions as a producer/director and to evaluate the production of radio programs including soft news, commercials, and public service announcements.Open to junior- and senior-level broadcasting students, this course may be repeated for a maximum of nine credit hours that may be applied toward their degree.
  

  • SPE 4700 - Communication and the Trainer

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 1010, SPE 1700, SPE 1710, SPE 2710 or Permission of instructor

    This course is designed to teach students how to translate their liberal arts background into on-the-job communication training programs using interpersonal and group dynamics skills. Actual demonstrations via video will be used, allowing students the opportunity to practice and evaluate their program design and training communication style in front of real audiences.
  

  • SPE 4750 - Communication Strategies for Effecting Change

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 3160, SPE 4160, and SPE 4700; or permission of instructor

    This course focuses on the communication strategies required to plan and implement major change in an organization. Students in the course will evaluate common system problems and processes. The course materials cover the roles of change agents, various communication competencies for managing change, and development tactics and strategies for implementing change. This course is designed for students who plan careers in management, training, or consulting who may direct change processes in organizational systems.
  

  • SPE 4760 - Communication and the Elderly

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 1700 and SPE 1710

    This course is designed to investigate the particular communication patterns and problems of the aged. It focuses on culturally communicated attitudes toward elderly persons via media, marketing, and institutions, as well as specific communication issues of the aged such as the communication of intimacy, friendship, control, interaction in work environments, home life, retirement and death.
  

  • SPE 4790 - Communication Theory Building and Research Methodology

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SPE 1700 or SPE 3740; and SPE 2160 or SPE 4160; or permission of instructor

    Corequisite: senior standing

    This course is designed to provide students with the major trends in communication research including the most frequently used methodologies for conducting research. Students will construct research questions and generate hypotheses for conducting research. They will investigate through literature searches current research conducted on specific topics and learn how to write and report that research using appropriate research tools (technology) and acceptable academic documentation. The course also focuses on the  processes for developing a research proposal using students’ understanding of generating social science, communication or organizational communication theories.(Senior Experience)
  

  • SUR 1000 - An Introduction to the Technical Aspects of Land Surveying

    2(1 +2)

    Prerequisite: High School algebra or trigonometry

    This course addresses the basic legal, technical, and professional topics of land surveying. Students are introduced to the federal and state statutes and regulations governing professional practice. Technical subjects address daily professional practice of research, data collection, and data reduction.This course may not be used by Surveying and Mapping majors.
  

  • SUR 1510 - Surveying I

    4(2 + 4)

    Prerequisite: CET 1100 and high school or college trigonometry or MTH 1400 with grades of “C” or better, or Permission of instructor

    This is an introductory course in elementary surveying. Students acquire a knowledge of the theory of measurements, methods of collecting and recording data, reduction of observations of angles, directions, distances and differences in elevation; the computation and adjustment of traverses; the use of data collectors and interfacing with CAD software; construction stakeout employing coordinate geometry and CAD output; and the methods of computing coordinate geometry and areas. Field work includes use of transits, total stations, electronic distance meters, surveyors’ tapes, differential levels and data collectors.
  

  • SUR 2520 - Surveying II

    4(2 + 4)

    Prerequisite: MTH 1410 and SUR 1510 with grades of “C” or better, or Permission of instructor

    This course is designed to cover the introduction to control surveying, state plane coordinate systems, construction surveying, legal and boundary surveying and large scale topographic mapping for engineering and architectural projects. The student is introduced to optical micrometer and electronic theodolites, precise levels, and electronic distancers. Laboratory assignments will cover astronomic azimuth observations, circular and parabolic curves, earthwork surveys, control surveying and topographic mapping.
  

  • SUR 2530 - Route Surveying

    4(2 + 4)

    Prerequisite: SUR 1520 for CET majors, SUR 2520 and SUR 2620 for SUR majors, all with a grade of “C” or better, or Permission of instructor

    This course is designed to expand the concepts on circular and parabolic curves and earthwork introduced in SUR 2520. Included is the mathematics of spirals; unequal tangent vertical curves, mass diagram of earthwork quantities; alignment profile and slope staking; large scale site mapping; alignment and design; and other surveying techniques required for highways, pipelines, tunnels, transmission lines, water lines, sewers and canals, etc. This course will introduce terrain modeling for site development and environmental concerns.(CET 2530)
  

  • SUR 2550 - Surveying Computations

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SUR 2520 with a grade of “C” or better, or Permission of instructor

    This is an introductory course on converting survey field observations/data into a form suitable to the end user. Students apply principles and precepts learned in courses of mathematics and surveying to surveying problems, develop analysis techniques, and perform those computations required for plane surveying problems encountered by the surveyor, land developer and civil engineer. Traverse computations, subdivision computations, route surveying computations, etc., are addressed.
  

  • SUR 3100 - Survey Data Adjustment and Analysis I

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: MTH 2140, MTH 2410, MTH 3210, PHY 2331, PHY 2341 and SUR 2550 with grades of “C” or better, or Permission of instructor

    This course provides a foundation in the basic principles of computational methods used to adjust and analyze survey observations employing statistical principles and least squares theory. The problems include adjustment of triangulation, traverses, trilateration, and vertical networks by condition and/or observation equations.
  

  • SUR 3150 - Astronomy for Surveyors

    2(2 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SUR 2520 with a grade of “C” or better, or Permission of instructor

    This is an introductory course on applying astronomical observations to surveying and mapping projects. Students acquire knowledge about positional determination by astronomical observations and determining the direction (azimuth, bearing) of lines on the earth’s surface from astronomic observations. The students compute the azimuth of a line from actual survey observations.
  

  • SUR 3220 - Real Property Descriptions

    2(2 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SUR 3540 with a grade of “C” or better, or Permission of instructor

    This course addresses writing real property legal descriptions for deeds, easements, and rights-of-way. Emphasis is placed on the structure and order of the elements in the description and on avoiding the common mistakes of language, construction, and terminology in order to avoid ambiguities in the intent of the instrument. A study of the interpretation of the rules to deal with conflicts and ambiguities in instruments is presented.
  

  • SUR 3300 - Photogrammetry

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: PHY 2331 and SUR 2550 with grades of “C” or better, or Permission of instructor

    This course introduces the science of photogrammetry. The geometry of the photographic camera, vertical photography, aerial-mapping camera, flight planning, project planning, supporting field surveys and field classification and targeting are emphasized. Photogrammetric plotters and comparators are discussed. An introduction to digital-image scanning and GPS synchronization is presented. The application of photogrammetry to engineering and surveying mapping programs is discussed.
  

  • SUR 3540 - Boundary Law I

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SUR 2520 with a grade of “C” or better, or Permission of instructor

    This course introduces the concepts of boundary control and legal principles. Subjects addressed include proportionate measurement, rights in land, junior/senior title rights, retracement of original surveys, deed first/survey first, common and case law, ranking/prioritizing evidence, controlling monuments and corners, errors in legal descriptions and plats, and case studies.
  

  • SUR 3700 - Geodesy I

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SUR 2550, PHY 2311, PHY 2321, PHY 2331 and PHY 2341 with grades of “C” or better, or Permission of instructor

    This is an introduction into the science of geodesy. The course presents an overview into the theory of surveying in which the size and shape of the earth must be addressed. The history of geodesy and the classical survey procedures to determine latitude, longitude, elevation, and the earth’s gravity field are presented. The underlying theory of instrumentation and the application of physical theory are discussed.
  

  • SUR 3800 - Public Land Survey System

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SUR 2520 with a grade of “C” or better, or Permission of instructor

    This course describes the survey procedures contained in the current Manual of Surveying for the Public Lands of the United States (1973). The history, design, and planning of the rectangular survey system, original surveys, resurveys, independent and dependent surveys, protection of bona-fide rights, mineral surveys, special surveys, and riparian rights are addressed. The importance of the official plats and field notes are presented.
  

  • SUR 4500 - Construction Measurements

    3(2 + 2)

    Prerequisite: SUR 2550 and SUR 2620 with grades of “C” or better, or Permission of instructor

    This course introduces the student to the methods of translating engineering and architectural plans into field surveys for construction work and post-construction mapping for payments. The topics include engineering measurement tolerances, vertical and horizontal differential tolerances, terrestrial photography and control, deformation studies and analysis, safety and hazardous waste environment.
  

  • SUR 4510 - Map Projections and Coordinate Systems

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: Senior standing; SUR 3700 with a grade of “C” or better, or Permission of instructor

    This is an in-depth course addressing the popular conformal map projections employed in surveying and mapping programs. The theories for the Lambert conformal conic, Mercator, transverse Mercator, oblique Mercator and stereographic, and Albers equal area projections are presented. Designing the projection system, transformation between plane coordinates and geodetic positions and the conversion of survey data to map projection data are emphasized. The use of local conformal map projections will be presented.
  

  • SUR 4540 - Boundary Law II

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: senior standing and SUR 3540 with a grade of ’C’or better, or permission of instructor

    This course is a continuation of SUR 3540 and addresses, in detail, the subjects of evidence and procedures for determining real property boundaries. Statutes and case law; conflicting evidence; proper methods and procedures for collecting evidence; riparian rights; surface and subsurface rights; and eminent domain are studied. Boundary agreements and legal instruments prepared by the land surveyor are introduced. The role of the land surveyor as an expert witness is presented.(Senior Experience)
  

  • SWK 399A - Agency Experience II (Family Preservation Services)



    See department for further information.
  

  • SWK 399B - Agency Experience II (Developmental Disability Services)

    See Department for registration and course information.
  

  • SWK 399C - Agency Experience II (Early Intervention Services)

    See Department for registration and course information.
  

  • SWK 399D - Agency Experience II (Child and Adolescent Mental Health)

    See Department for registration and course information.
  

  • SWK 399E - Agency Experience II (Gay and Lesbian)



    See Department for registration and course information.

     
  

  • SWK 399F - Agency Experience II (Women’s Services)



    See Department for regisitration and course information.
  

  • SWK 399G - Agency Experience II (Aging Services)



    See the Department for course information and registration.
  

  • SWK 479A - Professional Field Experience I (Child Welfare)

    5

    See department for further information on this course.
  

  • SWK 479B - Professional Field Experience I (Developmental Disabilities)

    5

    See department for further information on this course.
  

  • SWK 479C - Professional Field Experience I (Early Intervention)

    5

    See department for further information on this course.
  

  • SWK 479D - Professional Field Experience I (Child & Adolescent Mental Health)

    5
  

  • SWK 479E - Professional Field Experience I (Gay and Lesbian)

    5

    See department for further information on this course.
  

  • SWK 479F - Professional Field Experience I (Women)

    5

    See the department for further information on this course.
  

  • SWK 479G - Professional Field Experience I (Aging)

    5

    See the department for further information on this course.
  

  • SWK 481A - Professional Field Experience II (Child Welfare)

    5

    See the department for further information on this course.
  

  • SWK 481B - Professional Field Experience II (Developmental Disabilities)

    5

    See the department for further information on this course.
  

  • SWK 481C - Professional Field Experience II (Early Intervention)

    5

    See the department for further information on this course.
  

  • SWK 481D - Professional Field Experience II (Child & Adolescent Mental Health)

    5

    See the department for further information on this course.
  

  • SWK 481E - Professional Field Experience II (Gay and Lesbian)

    5

    See the department for further information on this course.
  

  • SWK 481F - Professional Field Experience II (Women)

    5

    See the department for further information on this course.
  

  • SWK 481G - Professional Field Experience II (Aging)

    5

    See the department for further information on this course.
  

  • SWK 1010 - Introduction to Social Welfare and Social Work

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: Satisfaction of General Studies—Level I requirements

    This course presents historical and philosophical perspectives of social work generalist practice and social welfare programs in response to human need and societal problems. An overview is provided of the social worker’s role in the fields of health, mental health, family and child welfare, corrections, and on behalf of special groups such as ethnic minorities, the aged, the developmentally delayed, women and children, and gays and lesbians.(General Studies Course—Level II, Social Sciences)
  

  • SWK 1020 - Introduction to Agency Experience

    1(1 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SWK 1010 or Permission of the instructor

    This course introduces students to social work roles in social service agencies. Concurrent volunteer experience in social work agency is required.
  

  • SWK 2100 - Introduction to Family Social Work

    3(3 + 0)

    This course will examine family systems theory and family life developmental models. Traditional and nontraditional families will be discussed from an ecological perspective. Introduction to the role and work of the family social worker at the beginning and generalist practice levels will be examined. Stages of family social work will be presented, including culturally and gender-sensitive practice, family-centered practice, home-based support and crisis intervention.
  

  • SWK 2150 - Social Work: The Helping Process

    3(3 + 0)

    This course will discuss social work as a helping process from a beginning social work perspective. The basic components of social work with diverse individuals and groups will be examined, including observation, assessment, communication, and intervention. Avoiding professional burnout will be discussed.
  

  • SWK 2160 - Record Keeping in Public and Private Agencies

    1(1 + 0)

    This course is designed to assist beginning and generalist social workers and other professionals with client and agency record keeping. A full range of records used by social workers and other agency staff will be presented. A balanced view of accountability, efficiency, and privacy will be illustrated through numerous examples and writing exercises.
  

  • SWK 3000 - Applied Legal Issues in Social Work

    1(1 + 0)

    This course will examine the legal basis for social work practice. It will apply specific laws that govern social work practice in a variety of service delivery areas.
  

  • SWK 3010 - Social Work Services for Children and Adolescents

    4(4 + 0)

    Policy issues and social work practice in the fields of child welfare, school social work, and services for youth in trouble with the legal system are examined. Needs and rights of children are significant themes. Field visits to child-serving agencies are arranged.
  

  • SWK 3020 - Case Management in Social Work Practice

    4(4 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SWK 1010 or Permission of instructor

    Case management is a coordinating service applicable to clients with multiple needs in any setting. The planning, organizing, motivating, and evaluating functions and skills of the case manager are the major foci.
  

  • SWK 3030 - Social Work with the Aging

    4(4 + 0)

    The status, needs, problems, and potentials of aging adults and their families are examined. Social policies and social work practice with the elderly are analyzed.
  

  • SWK 3050 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment I

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: Fulfillment of admission requirements to the Baccalaureate Social Work Program or Permission of instructor for non-majors

    This course explores major biopsychosocial theories of human behavior and development— infancy to adolescence—with special sensitivity to the meaning of culture and diversity. Concepts such as social injustice, ecological perspective, and empowerment are included.
  

  • SWK 3060 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment II

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SWK 3050 or Permission of instructor

    This course explores major biopsychosocial theories of human behavior and development— adolescence to later adulthood—with special sensitivity to the meaning of culture and diversity. Concepts such as social injustice, ecological perspective and empowerment are included.
  

  • SWK 3100 - Child Welfare and the Law

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SWK 1010 or Permission of instructor

    This course will provide students with an overview of the legal framework for the delivery of child welfare services. It will include federal and state mandates relating to child-abuse prevention and treatment, adoption and Indian child welfare. The role and processes of the court system will be discussed.
  

  • SWK 3150 - Social Work and Child Maltreatment

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SWK 1010 or Permission of instructor

    This course will provide students with the basic knowledge of intervention and treatment in situations of child maltreatment. This course will be taught from a family-centered, culturally appropriate framework. Students will learn intervention models as currently practiced in county departments of social/human services.
  

  • SWK 3200 - Social Work with Urban Families

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SWK 1010 or Permission of instructor

    This course will provide students with an overview of the community’s role in the prevention of child maltreatment. The course will be taught from an ethnically sensitive family and community- centered practice framework. Students will learn about social issues and conditions that impact the safety and welfare of children, and intervention models currently proposed and/or in use locally and nationally that are intended to address these issues and ameliorate these conditions.
  

  • SWK 3250 - Social Work and Developmental Disabilities

    3(3 + 0)

    This course takes a life-span approach to issues related to children and adults with developmental disabilities, and their families. Students will learn the history of societal treatment of people with developmental disabilities, current trends, philosophies, and service delivery models. Students will also learn laws, regulations, and eligibility issues related to services in Colorado, and how to recognize their own biases and stereotypes about this population. The roles of beginning and generalist social workers in supporting people with developmental disabilities in the community will be presented.
  

  • SWK 3300 - Social Work with Parents with Developmental Disabilities

    1(1 + 0)

    This course focuses on the unique learning styles and challenges of adults with developmental disabilities as parents. The roles of beginning and generalist social workers will be applied to this population.
  

  • SWK 3400 - Social Work Macro Practice

    4(4 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SWK 1010 or Permission of instructor

    Since the 1900s, social workers have responded to the needs of underserved and oppressed client groups through generalist social work macropractice strategies that include cause advocacy, social action, and community development. Social work macropractice principles are applied throughout this course as students find innovative ways to promote social change through coalition building, the legislative process, and community resource development in partnership with client populations.
  

  • SWK 3410 - Generalist Practice I

    4(4 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SWK 3050 or Permission of instructor

    This course is an introduction to generalist social work practice with diverse, urban populations- at-risk. Emphasis is on professional values, roles, relationships, and interviewing of individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Students develop an understanding of the problem-solving approach including initial contact, data collection, problem definition, and goal setting.
  

  • SWK 3450 - Mutual Aid Groups in Social Work

    4(4 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SWK 1010 or Permission of instructor

    Mutual aid groups aimed at empowerment of clients are often part of generalist social work practice to promote growth and change with individuals, families, groups, communities, and organizations. Students will gain knowledge about types of groups, group leadership skills, and experience group process.
  

  • SWK 3500 - Foundations for Social Work with Gays and Lesbians

    4(4 + 0)

    This course explores concepts and methods useful in assessing and addressing the strengths, status, developmental needs, and social issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. Relationships to families, groups, organizations, community, and culture are explored and examined. Concepts of diversity and conflicts within this population-at-risk, in both urban and rural settings, will be presented. Issues of empowerment, support, equality, social justice, social policy, and practice will be reviewed and discussed.Credit will be granted for only one prefix: SWK or WMS.(WMS 3500)
  

  • SWK 3600 - Social Work with Women

    4(4 + 0)

    This course views social work practice from a feminist social work perspective. It examines issues of equality, social justice, social policy, and practice for women in a patriarchal society. The role of beginning and generalist social workers with women will be examined in the areas of mental health, health, child welfare, welfare, and gerontology.Credit will be granted for only one prefix: SWK or WMS.(WMS 3600)
  

  • SWK 3660 - Women and Poverty

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SWK 1010, SWK 1020 or Permission of instructor

    This course introduces the student to the relationship between gender and poverty and will examine the underlying causes of the “feminization of poverty” in the United States. Social, economic, age-based, and ethnic factors will be explored in detail. The differences between prevailing stereotypes and current realities will be highlighted.(SOC 3660, WMS 3660)
  

  • SWK 3700 - Social Work and Early Intervention: Children Birth Through Five

    4(4 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SWK 1010, SWK 1020 or Permission of instructor

    This course focuses on parents as initial teachers and recognizes the importance of the early stages of development and the impact that the environment has upon children ages 0–5. Family supports, the early intervention system, and service coordination will be examined. The role of beginning and generalist social workers with this population will be illustrated throughout the identification, assessment, intervention, and evaluation stages of family social work practice.
  

  • SWK 3780 - Social Welfare Policy

    3(3 + 0)

    Prerequisite: SWK 3050 or Permission of instructor Social welfare policies at the federal, state, and local levels form the context of direct practice

    Social welfare legislation and programs are analyzed. Roles of advocate and lobbyist are examined. Past and present social policies are another focus of this course.
  

  • SWK 3790 - Research in Social Work

    4(4 + 0)

    Prerequisite: Fulfillment of admission requirements to the baccalaureate Social Work Program or Permission of instructor for nonmajors

    Students must complete MTH 1210 before enrolling in this course. This course presents fundamental principles, methodology, and techniques of social research as applied to social work practice issues. The course emphasizes concepts, skills, and values essential to the design and implementation of a research project. Major themes are critical analysis and effective utilization of published research.
 

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