MSW Electives

These courses can be taken individually as electives, and/or taken as part of Graduate Certificate programs.

Conflict Resolution and Mediation Certificate Courses

Required:

• SOWK 551: Fundamentals of Mediation
  Every term

Choose two:

• SOWK 552: Health and Eldercare mediation
  Spring of odd numbered years
• SOWK 553: Multiparty mediation
  Fall of even numbered years
• SOWK 554: Workplace Mediation
  Fall of odd numbered years
• SOWK 556: Divorce and Family Mediation
  Spring of even numbered years

Advanced Clinical Behavioral Health Certificate Courses

• SOWK 677: Trauma Informed Care
  Spring
• SOWK 676: Psychopharmacology and Community Mental Health
  Fall
• SOWK 678: Social Work Skills for Addictions Practice
  Summer

PreK-12 School Social Work Graduate Certificate Courses

• SOWK 560: Social Work Practice in Schools
  Fall, Spring, Summer
• SOWK 561: School Community: Exceptionalities in Education
  Summer
• SOWK 562: Functional Behavior Assessment
  Summer
• SOWK 551: Fundamentals of Mediation
  Every term

Nonprofit Administration Graduate Certificate Courses

• SOWK 660: Nonprofit Program Development
  Fall
• SOWK 661: Nonprofit Financial Development
  Spring
• SOWK 662: Volunteer Development and Management
  Summer

Social Aspects of Human-Animal Interactions (HAI) Graduate Certificate Courses

• SOWK 550: Animal Assisted Therapy and Human-Animal Bond
  Fall
• SOWK 557: Human-Animal Interventions – Grief and Loss
  Summer
• SOWK 677: Trauma-Informed Care
  Spring

• SOWK 482A: Social Work in Costa Rica
  Winter

The following courses have been approved to count toward your elective requirements. This list indicates when courses are scheduled to be offered, but this may change depending on department decisions. You must contact the department and/or instructor of the listed course if you have difficulty registering or have questions, and it is not guaranteed that you will be admitted into these courses. It’s advisable to contact the relevant department or instructor as soon as registration opens, and some departments may limit enrollment outside of their departments contingent upon capacity. Any questions/issues regarding registration, prerequisites, or admittance to the course should be directed to the respective instructor/department.

Any interdisciplinary electives that are not listed below require approval per the Elective Registration and Approval Protocol.

• ANTH 506: Anthropology of Happiness and the Good Life — Spring (even years)
• ANTH 543: Foundations of Ethnographic Research — Spring (odd years)
• ANTH 545: Global Mental Health – Theory and Method — Fall (odd years)
• EDCO 550: School Counseling, Program Planning, Delivery, and Evaluation — Spring
• EDCO 653: Counseling for Cultural Diversity — Fall
• EDCO 655: Brief Counseling — Spring
• EDCO 662: Counseling Children and Adolescents — Summer
• HES 620: The Science of Health Span — Fall (even years)
• HDFS 534: Marriage and Family Therapy — Fall
• HDFS 592: Grant Writing for Human Services and Research — Spring (odd years)
• HDFS 608: Program Planning and Implementation — Spring (odd years)
• HDFS 610: Risk and Resilience — Spring
• HDFS 611: Early Child Development — Spring (odd years)
• HDFS 613: Adult Development and Aging — Spring (even years)
• HDFS 636: Aging and the Family — Fall (even years). Prerequisite: any HDFS course numbered 300–481
• HDFS 644: Foundations in Family Therapy — Spring. Prerequisite: HDFS 534
• HDFS 692A: Family Issues: Intimacy and Human Sexuality — Spring
• HDFS 692B: Family Issues: Parenting — Fall (odd years)
• PBHL 516: Public Health Foundations — Fall
• PBHL 520: Health Systems, Policy, and Management — Spring
• PBHL 530: Environmental Public Health and Policy — Spring
• PBHL 550: Applied Social & Community Factors in Health — Fall
• PPA 557: Advanced Public Administration — (no term listed)
• PSY 517: Perspectives in Global Health — Spring (odd years)
• PSY 600J: Advanced Psychology – Health Psychology — Fall
• PSY 600H: Lifespan Developmental Psychology from Social-Justice and Cultural Perspectives — Fall
• PSY 677: The Psychology of Women, Men, and Gender — Fall

• AGRI 546: Principles of Cooperative Extension — Fall
• EDAE 620: Processes and Methods — Fall and Spring. Part of the Facilitating Adult Learning Graduate Certificate.
• EDAE 624: Adult Teaching and Learning I — Fall and Spring. Part of the Facilitating Adult Learning Graduate Certificate. Prerequisite: EDAE 520
• EDAE 664: Assessment & Evaluation in Adult Education — Fall. Elective option in Facilitating Adult Learning Graduate Certificate. Prerequisite: EDAE 620
• EDHE 675: Campus Crisis Management — Fall
• HDFS 545: Program Evaluation Methods and Statistics — Last 8 weeks of Fall semester
• HDFS 607: Prevention Science Across the Lifespan — First 8 weeks of Fall. Part of the Prevention Program Planning and Evaluation Graduate Certificate.
• HDFS 608: Program Planning and Implementation — First 8 weeks of Spring. Part of the Prevention Program Planning and Evaluation Graduate Certificate.
• HDFS 609: Prevention Program Evaluation — Last 8 weeks of Spring semester
• HORT 522: Contemporary Issues in Horticulture and Human Health — Spring
• IDEA 510: Processes of Human-Centered Design Thinking — Spring. Part of the Human-Centered Design Thinking Graduate Certificate.
• IDEA 580A2: Design Thinking for Educators — Summer
• NR 518: Climate Impacts and Risk Management — Fall
• PPA 500: Research Methods for Public Policy and Administration — Fall. Instructor approval required; part of Public Policy Analysis Graduate Certificate.
• PPA 501: Program Evaluation and Quantitative Methods — Summer & Fall. May require instructor approval; part of Public Policy Analysis Graduate Certificate.
• PPA 543: Evidence-Based Decision Making — Spring. May require instructor approval; part of Public Policy Analysis Graduate Certificate. Prerequisite: PPA 501
• PPA 665: Public Policy Analysis — Summer (8 weeks). May require instructor approval; also offered as POLS 665; part of Public Policy Analysis Graduate Certificate. Prerequisite: PPA 501
• PSY 500: Advanced Introduction to Positive Psychology — Spring & Summer. Part of Applied Positive Psychology Graduate Certificate.
• PSY 522: Positive Sport Psychology — Spring & Summer
• PSY 621: Psychology of Calling and Meaningful Work — Fall
• PSY 624: Positive Career Counseling and Coaching — Summer
• PSY 625: Positive Organizations and Leadership — Fall & Spring