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2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin

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2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Child Advocacy Studies minor

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Requirements for a Minor

Eighteen (18) Hours Required. Students must maintain a 2.50 Cumulative GPA and earn a minimum grade of C in each course within the minor. Additionally, students must complete an application. After completion of the CAST minor courses, students must also complete self-report measure. Students must complete SWK 490 and SWK 494 (or CJ 364 ) and an additional twelve (12) hours, of which nine (9) hours must be from at least two (2) different disciplines and cannot be shared with the student’s major or other minor requirements, if applicable.

1) SWK 490 - Child Maltreatment and Advocacy: CAST

2) SWK 494 - Social Work with Children and Families

or CJ 364 - Child Abuse and the Law

3) Choose twelve (12) hours from the following courses. Restrictions apply; see description above.

Psychosocial and Physical Development of Children and Adolescents

CD 350 - Child Development 3 hrs.
CD 451 - Infant Development 3 hrs.
CD 477 - Developmental Disabilities in Early Childhood 3 hrs. or
PSY 477 - Developmental Disabilities in Early Childhood 3 hrs.
PSY 372 - Adolescent Psychology 3 hrs.
PSY 446 - Abnormal Child and Adolescent Psychology 3 hrs.
PSY 482 - Moral Development in Childhood and Adolescence 3 hrs.
SWK 496 - Social Work Practice in Schools 3 hrs.

Substance Abuse and Intervention

Students may select only one course from this group.

CJ 445 - Drugs and Society 3 hrs.
DPH 422 - Drugs and the Whole Person 3 hrs.
PSY 435 - Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Intervention 3 hrs.

Family, Marriage, and Parent-Child Relationships

DPH 430 - Human Sexuality 3 hrs.
FAM 351 - Marital and Family Relationships 3 hrs.
FAM 452 - Parenthood 3 hrs.
SOC 414 - Issues in the Family 3 hrs.

Domestic Violence and Family Law

CJ 463 - Family Law 3 hrs.
SWK 497 - Social Work Practice and Family Violence 3 hrs. or
CJ 464 - Family Violence, Investigation and Deterrence 3 hrs.

Criminal and Deviant Behavior

PSY 432 - Behavioral Interventions 3 hrs.
SOC 340 - Deviant Behavior 3 hrs.
SOC 341 - Criminology 3 hrs.
SOC 444 - Juvenile Delinquency 3 hrs.

The Court System, Social Justice, and Crisis Intervention

CJ 480 - Seminar in Criminal Justice 3 hrs.
SWK 499 - Forensic Social Work 3 hrs.
SWK 415 - Human Rights and Social Justice 3 hrs. or
PS 459 - Human Rights 3 hrs.
SWK 493 - Crisis Intervention: CAST 3 3 hrs.

Case Management, Rehabilitative Services, Behavior Analysis

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