Disclaimer
These courses may have been taken by previous Social Work students or may have been identified as of possible interest to Social Work students. Some courses may be restricted and/or not open to
Social Work students. There are many other courses not listed offered elsewhere in the university that may be of interest. Interest in courses numbered below 500 should be checked for graduate
level status since many are only offered for undergraduate credit. You can check this by contacting the department offering the course or contacting the SSW Registrar.
The information may not be up to date or complete. Please seek additional information from the department where the course is offered and from the instructors of the course. We strongly
recommend you discuss your plans to take outside courses with your advisor to make sure they are a good fit for your educational program.
| School: |
Nursing |
| Credits: |
2 |
| Course Description: |
This course introduces global health concepts and the network of organizations working to advance health care internationally. Emphasis is on global burden of disease, determinants of health and importance of interdisciplinary approach to health care delivery. Provide students with a broad introduction to programs, systems and policies affecting global health. Will explore facets of the global health care delivery system, health care economics and the political process and its impact on the health of individuals and populations. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Tschannen, Dana Jolene | - | 2000 426NIB | 18475 |
| School: |
Nursing |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Prerequisites: |
Permission of Instructor |
| Course Description: |
This course focuses on the advanced comprehensive assessment of individuals within a developmental life span perspective. The interactions of developmental, biopsychosocial, and socio-cultural contexts resulting in health effects for individuals provide the structure of the course. The course builds on the students' knowledge and skills of basic physical assessment and provides a foundation for the advanced practice nurse to evaluate the health of individuals across the life span. Students are grounded in the theoretical perspectives, empirical documentation, and practice skills necessary for advanced communication (i.e., clinical interviewing, focused history taking), biopsychosocial and physical assessment, critical diagnostic reasoning, and clinical decision-making. Students acquire the requisite advanced knowledge and skills within a case-based, problem focused learning framework that integrates theoretical, empirical, and experience-based practical knowledge. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 100 | Jones, Heather | - | REMOTE | 22101 |
| 101 | Jones, Heather | Wed | | 22102 |
| 200 | Ammerman, Beth Anne | - | REMOTE | 22103 |
| 201 | Lee, Deb | Mon | | 22104 |
| 202 | Blush, Ray | Mon | | 22105 |
| 203 | Maguire, Sarah Kathryn-Mahaffy | Mon | | 22355 |
| 204 | Abdelnabi, Samia Jamal | Mon | | 22356 |
| 205 | Drummond, Nora | Mon | | 22357 |
| 102 | Gultekin, Laura Ellen | - | | 27166 |
| 103 | Shakoor, Kelly | Wed | | 27167 |
| 104 | Haberkorn, Elizabeth M | - | | 29892 |
| 105 | Nelson, Kathryn | - | | 32875 |
| School: |
Nursing |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Prerequisites: |
Requires graduate student standing or permission of instructor |
| Course Description: |
This course will explore the issues that directly or indirectly affect health in low and middle resource countries from an interdisciplinary approach. We will focus on global and public health concepts and on health promotion and risk reduction in countries to which students plan to travel for field work, or from which they have returned. We will consider how history, culture, politics and social institutions influence health and health systems. Lecture this year focuses primarily on Latin America and the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. Students who are not traveling are encouraged to use course assignments to explore how the issues being discussed impact health in another country of particular interest in them. The purpose of the course is to broaden the student's worldview and global perspective on health care issues. Emphasis for this course is on health equity among nations and for all people. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Eagle, Megan J | - | | 23853 |
| School: |
Political Science |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Course Description: |
A brief survey of the basic principles governing the organization of American national government and an intensive study of selected problems. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Kollman, Ken | Mon | 5664 HH | 26447 |
| School: |
Psychology |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Course Description: |
This course is an introductory sociological analysis of select acts, persons, and identities that are morally condemned. Special emphasis is directed to the co-constitutive relationship of deviance and conventionality, the variability of deviance in time and space, and the political nature of the production and deployment of categories of deviance. Among the topics of inquiry are historical case studies of "legislated" morality (e.g., deviant drinking and opiate use), the development of deviant identities and deviant subcultures, the medicalization of deviance (e.g., non-normative sexual and gender identities), and types and dynamics of social control. The course seeks to encourage and cultivate a critical, reflexive sociological perspective on social life by considering the links between "deviance" and social spheres of power including race, class, gender, and sexuality. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Castle, Kate | Mon, Wed | 1210 CHEM | 28542 |
| 002 | McGann, PJ | Wed | 4128 LSA | 28544 |
| 003 | McGann, PJ | Wed | 4128 LSA | 28546 |
| 005 | McGann, PJ | - | 4128 LSA | 28548 |
| 006 | McGann, PJ | - | 4128 LSA | 29525 |
| 007 | McGann, PJ | - | 4128 LSA | 29527 |
| 004 | McGann, PJ | Wed | 4128 LSA | 33906 |
| School: |
Psychology |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Course Description: |
This is a Topics course at the graduate level. Topics may change term to term and section to section. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 010 | Reuter-Lorenz, Patricia A | - | ARR | 20255 |
| 006 | Jahn, Andrew | - | 4464 EH | 29326 |
| 001 | Lustig, Cindy Ann | Fri | 4464 EH | 30003 |
| 002 | Edelstein, Robin | Mon | 3254 EH | 34745 |
| TBD | TBD | - | ARR | 34747 |
| 008 | Camp, Nick | Mon | ARR | 34748 |
| 012 | Durkee, Myles | Wed | 3254 EH | 34749 |
| 013 | Tronson, Natalie | - | ARR | 37129 |
| 011 | Kovelman, Ioulia | - | 3254 EH | 38004 |
| 021 | Beltz, Adriene Marie | - | ARR | 40483 |
| 022 | Beltz, Adriene Marie | - | | 40484 |
| School: |
Public Policy |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Prerequisites: |
Open to SW students a week or so after Ford students enroll.
Interested students should email the instructor and cc Sarah Beyer ([email protected]), the Registrar at the Ford School, to ask for permission to enroll in these courses. |
| Course Description: |
This course deals with the economics of international trade policy, most obviously tariffs on imports but also a variety of non-tariff barriers and other policies that impact international trade. The topic has increased in importance under President Trump, and we will devote a lot of attention to the policies he has implemented and the responses to those policies by other countries. We will also examine the details of how trade policies are decided and implemented in the United States, the European Union, and other countries, and we will study the mechanisms that exist internationally to constrain and guide these policies, through the World Trade Organization and through negotiated trade agreements.
About half the course will deal in some depth with the use of economic models to quantify the effects of trade policies, while the other half will deal with institutions, laws, and policies. The structure of the course will be very similar to what it has been in the past, as can be seen from last year’s course website that is publicly available online through my own website. The major topics will likely be the same, but with readings dealing with the more recent events that have occurred during the year leading up to the course. As in the past, students will be expected to write three papers (in assigned groups of 2 or 3), take two exams (a midterm and a final), and participate in class discussion. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Deardorff, Alan | Mon, Wed | 1220 WEILL | 23746 |
| School: |
Public Policy |
| Credits: |
1.5 |
| Course Description: |
This course will provide students with a practical hands-on introduction to data analysis using Microsoft Excel. Given the widespread usage of Microsoft Excel in the workplace, the aim of the course is to enable students to become proficient in the professional use of the software application. Topics will include: data collection and management, data tables, scenario analysis, optimization using the solver tool, graphical and numerical techniques for summarizing data, and macros. No previous experience with Microsoft Excel is required. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Worthington, Alton Boyd Hale | - | 3117 WEILL | 24749 |
| School: |
Public Policy |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Prerequisites: |
Open to SW students a week or so after Ford students enroll.
Interested students should email the instructor and cc Sarah Beyer ([email protected]), the Registrar at the Ford School, to ask for permission to enroll in these courses. |
| Course Description: |
How are the inherent and intersecting relations of power including inherent structures of dominance related to the experience of violence, oppression and resistance textured into the context of politics and policy making? This course investigates how multifaceted historical relationships of traumatic experience including Colonization, Slavery and Apartheid can be related to the ways in which we think about policy. This course takes a multidisciplinary approach to how the production of culture, ecology, psychology, law, economics and politics frames the sociology and historiography of the policymaking context. This course provides the opportunity for student's to improve their analytical abilities. Whilst the material content used in this course will have a global focus, local issues will also be considered. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Henry, Yazier | - | 1210 WEILL | 27106 |
| School: |
Information, School of |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Prerequisites: |
Contact Department or Instructor |
| Course Description: |
Students electing SI 504 MUST also register for one of the discussion group sessions. Considers collections of information resources in the broadest sense of the term. Includes libraries and archives, business records, research data, personal files, art collections, and other sets of information items held by individuals or groups for later use. Deepens understanding of fundamental social processes within which such collections are embedded, and the processes that shape their creation, use, and meaning. Fosters the synthesis of collections and social systems by showing how collected information simultaneously results from ongoing social processes and affects them. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Vento, Anna | Mon | 0460 CCCB | 26529 |
| 101 | Hess, Michael Levine | Mon | ARR | 32508 |