Intellectual Disabilities in Social Work Practice
Overview
Subject area
SSW
Catalog Number
79735
Course Title
Intellectual Disabilities in Social Work Practice
Department(s)
Description
This course is designed to enhance the social work students' ability to practice social work with and on behalf of people with intellectual/developmental disabilities and their families. The course provides a base of knowledge about developmental disabilities and differences, their causes and characteristics. Students will learn how disabilities and learning differences impact personal, familial, educational, social, and economic dimensions for the individual, family and society, with attention to the person's special life cycle needs and characteristics. The course also emphasizes legislative, programmatic, political, economic, and theoretical formulations fundamental to service delivery.
Typically Offered
Fall, Spring
Academic Career
Graduate
Liberal Arts
No
Credits
Minimum Units
3
Maximum Units
3
Academic Progress Units
3
Repeat For Credit
No
Components
Name
Lecture
Hours
3