With the use of elective courses, students can choose to develop additional skills by declaring a focused specialization that can be used in combination with any concentration. Specialization options include the following:
All specializations require students to complete one of their five concentration practicum credits (120 units) on their specialization-related tasks and activities. Students must work with their field advisor and field instructor to ensure relevant content.
Management
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| |
| |
| SWSA 5019 | Leading & Managing Employees, Volunteers & Teams | 3 |
| SWSA 5030 | Financial Management | 3 |
| SWSA 5057 | Leadership & Management of Human Service Organizations | 3 |
| Total Units | 9 |
Older Adults and Aging Societies
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| SWHS 2010 | Contemporary Perspectives on Aging | 3 |
| SWSP 5780 | Social Policies, Services & Programs in Aging | 3 |
| SWDP 9455 | Interpersonal Work with Older Adults & their Families | 3 |
| Total Units | 9 |
Policy
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| |
| SWSP 5830 | Policy Design Lab | 3 |
| SWCD 5018 | State-Level Lobbying | 3 |
| 3 |
| Total Units | 9 |
Research
Social Entrepreneurship
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| |
| |
| SWSA 5030 | Financial Management | 3 |
| SWSA 5060 | Social Entrepreneurship | 3 |
| 3 |
| SWSA 5061 | Business Planning for New Enterprises — The Hatchery | |
| or SWSA 5063 | Social Innovation |
| Total Units | 9 |
System Dynamics
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| SWCD 5660 | System Dynamics Modeling for Strategic Design | 3 |
| SWCD 5050 | Community-Based System Dynamics | 3 |
| SKILL 5501 | System Dynamics Skill Lab I: Designing Responsive Community Based System Dynamics Approaches | 1 |
| or SKILL 5504 | Introduction to System Dynamics for Advancing Equity |
| SKILL 5502 | System Dynamics Skill Lab II: Simulation Model Translation & Adaptation | 1 |
| SKILL 5503 | System Dynamics Skill Lab III: Developing Interactive Model Interfaces | 1 |
| Total Units | 9 |
Sexual Health and Education
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| SWDP 5152 | Sex, Society, and Social Work: Issues and Interventions | 3 |
| 6 |
| SWDP 5153 | Sexual Health Across the Life Course | |
| or SWDP 5154 | Designing Sexual Health Education |
| or SWDP 5155 | Designing Sexual Health Education Curriculum |
| or SWDP 5156 | Media Methods for Disseminating Sexual Health Education |
| or SWSP 5784 | Regulating Sex: Social Work Perspectives |
| Total Units | 9 |
Violence & Injury Prevention
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| SWHS 1025 | Theoretical Approaches to Interpersonal Violence Across the Life Course | 3 |
| 6 |
| SWDP 5122 | Intervention Approaches to address Gender-Based Violence | - |
| SWDP 5311 | Addressing & Preventing Intimate Partner Violence in Practice | - |
| SWDP 5325 | Child Maltreatment Prevention | - |
| SWDP 5147 | Core Concepts in Trauma Treatment for Children & Adolescents | - |
| SWCD 5337 | Protection and Wellbeing of Displaced Children (Colombia) | - |
| SWDP 5157 | Sex Trafficking | - |
| SWDP 5180 | Criminal Justice Involved Adults: Practice & Policy Interventions (Criminal Justice Involved Adults) | - |
| Total Units | 9 |