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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

SOWK 320. Human Behavior in the Social Environment


Credits 3.00 PeopleSoft Course ID 002929 Grading Basis GRD

This course presents theoretical frameworks of human behavior and the social environment at individual, family, group, organization and community system levels. Application of the frameworks to social work processes of engagement, assessment, intervention and evaluation is explored. Integrates and expands prerequisite knowledge in psychological and socio-cultural sciences related to the dimensions of diversity and difference in shaping human experience. Prerequisite(s): PSYC 101 , PSYC 160 , SOWK 287 , and SOWK 288 ; and one of SOCI 101  or SOCI 110 ; and one of AAAD 200 , ANTH 195 , GEOG 200 , GEOG 280 , SOCI 336 , or SOCI 354 . Corequisite(s): SOWK 317 .