These seminars cover variable topics related to faculty and student analysis of critical and emerging issues in research methods for social work policy and practice. These topics may include research strategies, designs, techniques, and skills needed to develop knowledge of human services or research methods relevant to: the advancement of knowledge about practice interventions, the organization of service delivery, and social welfare policies; evaluation of practice, programs, and policies; the formulation and development of innovative practice interventions, service delivery systems, and social welfare policies.
Data and information about clients, social services, and social problems are increasingly a part of advocacy efforts, social work, social policy, and the administration of social services. In both advocacy and social work practice, effective use of data is necessary for program planning, as well as for tracking client outcomes, and tailoring treatments and interventions for the best results.
We will learn concrete practical skills in this course. We will also learn to think critically about the data that agencies and programs gather, and about what data agencies and programs actually use to measure outcomes, guide the future of current programs, and to design new programs.
This course will focus on writing code using the open source software known as R, but also on some important non-coding data visualization tools such as QGIS, and Tableau.
Other SW838 Offerings
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