Advanced Social Work Practice Concentration Curriculum

Denver Campus MSW Program

The Advanced Social Work Practice concentration will prepare you with the theoretical knowledge, applied skills and values to work across a continuum of services at micro, mezzo and macro levels. Our model prepares you to practice with a wide range of populations and settings to meet the needs of your community. The curriculum emphasizes culturally responsive practice needed for the increasing diversity within communities at a local, state, national or global context.  

To see a full list of course descriptions, view the GSSW bulletin.

Area Requirements Courses
Theory for Practice 
  • SOWK 4315: Critical Theories of Child & Adolescent Development
  • SOWK 4320: Family Systems Theories
  • SOWK 4325: Evolving Perspectives & Trends in Health & Wellness
  • SOWK 4345: Intersections of Mental Health, Substance Use, & Trauma
  • SOWK 4360: Social-Ecological Resilience: Connecting Human & Environmental Well-Being
  • SOWK 4370: Community & Organizational Change
Assessment Skills 
  • SOWK 4338: Assessment of Mental Health Across the Lifespan
  • SOWK 4565: Social and Environmental Impact Assessments
  • SOWK 4501: Wellness Assessment & Promotion Across the Lifespan
Ethics, Safety, & Supervisory Skills
  • SOWK 4203: Environmental Change and Resilience for Mental Health
  • SOWK 4340: Leadership & Supervision Skills
  • SOWK 4418: Child Welfare Practice  
  • SOWK 4465: Human Security
  • SOWK 4712: Social Work & Law
  • SOWK 4752: Trauma Informed Assessment & Interventions
  • SOWK 4784: Suicide Assessment & Interventions
Intervention Skills
  • SOWK 4202: Creating a Regenerative Future
  • SOWK 4205: Contemporary Eco Justice Issues
  • SOWK 4401: Integrated Health Care
  • SOWK 4412: Practice Elements in Interventions with Children & Youth
  • SOWK 4420: Multisystemic Social Work Practice and Advocacy with Families
  • SOWK 4425: Positive and Community Youth Development
  • SOWK 4430: Substance Use Interventions
  • SOWK 4435: Grassroots Organizing for Social Justice
  • SOWK 4454: Child & Adolescent Trauma
  • SOWK 4535: Planning & Program Development
  • SOWK 4700: Solution Focused Brief Therapy
  • SOWK 4715: School Social Work Interventions
  • SOWK 4723: Social Work Practice in Health
  • SOWK 4725: Mind-Body Connections in Social Work Practice 
  • SOWK 4726: Experiential Therapy
  • SOWK 4730: Cognitive Behavioral Therapies
  • SOWK 4735: Interpersonal Counseling Approaches
Policy & Advocacy Skills
  • SOWK 4204: Policy Advocacy for Eco Justice
  • SOWK 4600: Child Welfare Policies & Services
  • SOWK 4610: Policies & Programs for Children & Youth
  • SOWK 4630: Family Policies & Services
  • SOWK 4635: Immigration Policies  
  • SOWK 4640: Mental Health & Substance Use Policies
  • SOWK 4645: Health Care Policy
  • SOWK 4655: Mental Health & Health Care Policy
  • SOWK 4660: Social Policy Advocacy
  • SOWK 4680: Native Peoples Practice: History & Policy  
  • SOWK 4765: Global Social Change
Evaluation & Research Skills
  • SOWK 4361: Adapting and Implementing Interventions
  • SOWK 4900: Methods for Evaluating Practice & Programs
  • SOWK 4903: Photovoice
  • SOWK 4902: Research Dissemination & Public Impact
  • SOWK 4990: Qualitative Methods for Social Work Evaluation
  • SOWK 4904: Human-Centered Design
Values
  • SOWK 4232: Critical Race Theory
  • SOWK 4235: Disproportionality & Disparities
  • SOWK 4240: Intergenerational Justice
  • SOWK 4245: Restorative Approaches in Social WorkPractice
  • SOWK 4355: Genocide: A Social Justice Issue
  • SOWK 4390: Cultural & Linguistic Competencies in Integrated Behavioral Health
  • SOWK 4480: Social Justice in Mental Health Practice
  • SOWK 4545: Social Work Practice with LGBTQIA Communities
  • SOWK 4555: Spirituality and Social Work
  • SOWK 4643: Special Topics: Digital Justice
  • SOWK 4732: Disrupting Privilege through Anti-Oppressive Practice
  • SOWK 4742: Disability Studies
  • SOWK 4750: Critical Perspectives in Latinx Context
  • SOWK 4753: Social Development in Latin America
  • SOWK 4757: Social Work in Latin American Cultures
  • SOWK 4758: Social Work in Kenya
  • SOWK 4759: Global Cultural Perspectives
  • SOWK 4762: Bosnia in Transition
  • SOWK 4763: Social Work & Social Justice in South Africa
  • SOWK 4764: Historical Trauma and Healing
  • SOWK 4782: Feminism in Social Work Practice
  • SOWK 4786: Human Trafficking 
  • SOWK 4790: Human Sexuality
  • SOWK 4971: Experimental: Values to Guide Social Work Practice with Native Peoples
Electives
  • SOWK 4260: Contemporary Social Work Issues in Western CO
  • SOWK 4305: Child Maltreatment
  • SOWK 4375: Economic Theory & Social Work
  • SOWK 4410: Prevention & Treatment of Adolescent Substance Use
  • SOWK 4416: Foster Care & Permanency Planning
  • SOWK 4445: Social Work Assessment & Intervention in Aging
  • SOWK 4500: Foundations of Play Therapy with Young Children
  • SOWk 4505: Relationship Therapy
  • SOWK 4520: Advanced Clinical SW Practice with Families
  • SOWK 4521: Advanced Skills for Working with Military Families
  • SOWK 4523: Care Management Skills
  • SOWk 4525: Administration & Management Practice & Skills
  • SOWK 4530: Poverty & Community Economic Development
  • SOWK 4650: Aging Policy
  • SOWK 4670: Policy Development & Analysis
  • SOWK 4705: Forensic Orientation in Social Work Practice
  • SOWK 4710: Intimate Partner Violence
  • SOWK 4718: School Social Work Assessment & Realities
  • SOWK 4720: Prevention & Treatment of Juvenile Delinquency & Youth Violence
  • SOWK 4721: Existential Social Work Practice
  • SOWK 4727: Experiential Therapy in Nature
  • SOWK 4741: Grief & Loss Across the Lifespan
  • SOWK 4749: Culturally Responsive Practice with Latinx
  • SOWK 4760: Resource Development & Fundraising
  • SOWK 4791: Experimental Class
  • SOWK 4795: Foundations for Human-Animal-Environment Interactions - Social Work
  • SOWK 4796: Human Animal Environment Interventions in Social Work Practice
  • SOWK 4797: Professional Integration of Human-Animal-Environment Interactions - Social Work
  • SOWK 4901: Applied Practice Evaluation Research
  • SOWK 4965: International Field Practicum
  • SOWK 4990: Topics in Social Work
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