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examination should be equal to the depth that is characteristic of a typical course. The subject must be of significance to the field of social work practice, transcending the distinction between Macro and clinical social work. The Department SW 800 Basic Skills in Macro Practice (Fall: 3) Corequisite: SW 921 (academic year) Required of all M.S.W. students. A course designed to introduce students to specific knowledge and skills useful to achieve change in organizational and community settings. These include needs assessment, goal and objective setting in planning, policy analysis, and administration. The Department SW 801 Interprofessional Collaboration (Spring: 3) Prerequisites: SW 762 and SW 800 Cross Listed with NU 484, ED 515, PY 515 This course will prepare professionals from different disciplines to collaborate in a transdisciplinary fashion for effective services to children-at-risk. Transdisciplinary (or interprofessional) work involves joint planning and delivery of services and at times blending roles as appropriate in the best interests of the identified client with special needs. This elective will define the need for, barriers to, and strategies of successful transdisciplinary collaboration among clinical, educational, and nursing practitioners. Parent perspectives and cultural differences as related to providing or accepting services will be examined. The Department SW 802 Policy for an Aging Society: Issues Options (Spring: 3) Prerequisite: SW 701 Required for Older Adults and Families Field-of-Practice Concentration; elective for others. This advanced policy course provides an opportunity to examine how historical and contemporary forces along with demographic change shape the perceived problems of the elderly, the politics of aging, and public policy responses. New questions are being raised about the cost of public and private retirement and health care commitments directed at the old and about the responsibilities of older Americans. The implications of the diversity of current and future cohorts of elders need to be understood to adequately plan service and policy responses to the aging of America. The Department SW 805 Policy Issues in Family and Childrens Services (Spring: 3) Prerequisite: SW 701 Required for Children, Youth and Families Field-of-Practice Concentration; elective for others. A critical examination of alternatives in evaluating, formulating, and implementing policies and programs in the area of family and childrens services through the analysis of specific issues in this field of practice. Students select the issues to be considered during the first class session. The scope of these issues includes: foster care, group care, adoption, protective services to battered and neglected children and the elderly, services to delinquents, aging, family and child advocacy, divorce custody issues, health care, and HIV/AIDS. The Department SW 806 Global Policy Issues and Implications (Fall: 3) Prerequisite: SW 701 Required for Global Practice Field-of-Practice Concentration; elective for others. An advanced policy course that introduces approaches, issues and competencies of global social work policy interventions. This course focuses on policy analysis in the context of world-wide poverty, underdevelopment, and sustainable development. In the context of social justice, equality, universal human rights and international collaboration (partnerships), it perceives global systems and their policies as both a challenge for a sustainable planet and for the growth of its interdependent national/local communities. The Department SW 808 Legal Aspects of Social Work (Spring/Summer: 3) Prerequisite: SW 701 Elective An examination of various areas of the law and legal implications of interest to social workers. The course provides a useful study of the framework of the American legal system, the process of litigation, and the constitutional principles of due process and equal protection. The seminar explores the interaction between social workers and lawyers by placing real life social work problems in a legal context. The format is designed to engage students in critical legal thinking and explore the relationship between social policy and the development of the law. The Department SW 809 Administration of Human Services Programs (Spring: 3) Prerequisite: SW 800 Corequisite: SW 942 or permission Required of Macro students. A course providing an understanding of the context and skills needed by administrators to design, implement, and manage programs successfully in community agencies and other human service settings. Topics include leadership, program development, resource and staff management, intra-agency and community relations, and monitoring of client flows and program outcomes. The Department SW 810 Financial Management for Human Services (Fall: 3) Prerequisite: SW 800 Corequisite: SW 943 or permission Required for MACRO students in Health Mental Health Field-of- Practice Concentration; elective for others. This course focuses on basic financial management for social work practitioners, and the marshalling and use of financial resources in a human service or not-for-profit environment. Topics covered include financial management, resource development, the use of technology, budgeting, and accounting. The implications of agency financing for social and economic justice, improving the status of diverse and at-risk populations in the context of social work values and ethics are also discussed. The Department SW 812 Child and Family Welfare System in a Transitioning Society: The Case of Romania (Summer: 3) Prerequisite: SW 701 A course that addresses social welfare issues and various professional methods for promoting self-sufficiency, social integration, social change, and justice in Romania are examined. Issues of particular interest include child and family welfare, gender, ethnicity, poverty, employment, and housing. Students will explore how micro and macro social work practice skills can be indigenized in this context. The course combines community service with the study of health, social, and economic issues in Romania. The Department The Boston College Catalog 2006-2007 377 SOCIAL WORK

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