Degree Type
Minor
School
Department
Faculty Advisors: Martha Livingston (Public Health), B. Runi Mukherji (Psychology), Rachel Kalish (Sociology)
Curriculum
Requirements
Students minoring in Social Work are required to complete five courses (20 credits), distributed as follows:
A. Required Course (4 credits)
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SY4260 Social Work: Theory and Practice
B. Human Behavior and Social Environment (4 credits)
- CR3094 Drugs and Society
- PH4450 Human Sexuality
- PH4631 Mental Health
- PH4650 Substance Use and Abuse
- PY3215 Foundations of Child Development
- PY3230 Adulthood and Aging
- PY3310 Abnormal Psychology
- PY3311 Theories of Personality
- PY3330 Psychology of Addictions
- PY3510 Social Psychology
- PY3620 Drugs and Behavior
- PY4320 Counseling Psychology
- PY4330 Behavior Modification
- PY4420 Adolescent Development
C. Social and Cross-Cultural (4 credits)
- CR2090 Juvenile Delinquency
- CR3099 Sociology of Violence
- CR4000 Gender, Crime and Justice
- CR4999 Issues in Criminology: Family Violence
- PY2530 Psychology of Prejudice & Discrimination
- PY2720 Psychology of Gender
- PY3020 Health-Related and Sports Psychology
- PY4350 Peace, Violence & Conflict Resolution
- PY3720 Feminist Psychology
- PY3730 Community Psychology
- PY3760 Psychology of Socioeconomic Inequality
- PY4740 Psychology of Ethnicity
- PY4760 Sexual Identities & LGBTQ+ Psychology
- PY4520 Family Systems & Counseling
- PY4560 Psychological Traumatization
- SY2550 Social Problems
- SY2600 Social Deviance
- SY3160 Sociology of Culture
- SY3280 Social Inequality
- SY3700 Family and Society
- SY3800 Race and Ethnicity
- SY4400 Social Psychology
- SY4500 Global Sociology
D. Planning and Policy (4 credits)
- CR3092 Victimology
- CR4091 Punishment and Corrections
- PH4750 Aging and Social Policy
- PH4790 Health Policy
- PY4230 The Psychobiology of Aging
- PY3565 Organizational Behavior
- SY3750 Medical Sociology
- PY4530 Prevention, Promotion, & Program Evaluation
- SY4600 Social Programs, Planning and Policy
E. Research and Internship (4 credits)
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PH4900 Health and Society Field Placement
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PY4130 Field Experience and Research
- SY4270 Internship in Social Work, Sociology and Criminology
Note: A minimum of 16 credits must be taken outside the student’s major. No more than one course may be transferred from another institution.
Contact
Basabi Runi Mukherji-Ratnam
Professor
Cognitive, Cross-cultural, Multi-cultural, Methodological & Neuropsychology
Psychology
Building
New Academic Building
Room
2079
Phone
E-mail