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
Martha Livingston
Professor
Public Health
School of Arts and Sciences
Building
New Academic Building
Room
2004
Phone
E-mail
Basabi Runi Mukherji-Ratnam
Professor
Cognitive, Cross-cultural, Multi-cultural, Methodological & Neuropsychology
Psychology
Building
New Academic Building
Room
2079
Phone
E-mail