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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: |
Psychology |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Course Description: |
This course will focus on the factors that play a role in the social development of the child using a transactional ecological framework. The transactional perspective will permit interpreting the relative importance of what the child brings to the situation, the experience that the environment provides, and how each is affected by the other. The ecological perspective will permit an analysis of the social environment into separate systems that influence the child including the family, school, peer group, ethnic and economic status. Specific topics to be considered include the development of intimate relationships from early parental attachments to later romantic ones, the regulation of behavior from toddler assertiveness to adult conduct disorder, the relation between temperament, parenting practices and later personality, and the development of self-representations including gender and ethnic dimensions. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | McLoyd, Vonnie C | - | 4464 EH | 35005 |
| School: |
Psychology |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Course Description: |
Lectures and discussion on the core problems of groups. These include the origins of group living, simple group effects (e.g., social facilitation, social loafing, and imitation), types of social relations, cooperation, social interaction and role differentiation, status differences, group problem solving and decision making, conformity to the majority, minority influence, and inter-group relations. There is a term paper and a take-home final. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Ho, Arnold Kelly | - | 3254 EH | 35006 |
| 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 # |
|---|
| 001 | Lustig, Cindy Ann | Fri | 4464 EH | 29295 |
| 006 | Jahn, Andrew | - | 4464 EH | 29297 |
| 002 | Zhang, Jun | Mon | ARR | 31786 |
| 010 | Smith, Jacqui | - | | 40432 |
| School: |
Public Policy |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Prerequisites: |
Open to SW students a week or so after Ford students enroll.
Note: PUBPOL 534 is one of the four courses Ford students can take for their second economics requirement. This class is almost always full of Ford students, but if there's space SW students ar |
| Course Description: |
This course surveys what we do and don't know about economic growth and poverty alleviation in developing countries. We begin by discussing alternative perspectives on the goals of development. The substantive sections of the course address specific topics relevant to developing countries, such as: technology and growth; international trade and investment; international migration and remittances; coping with risk; public health and education; corruption and governance; and public finance. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Neggers, Yusuf | - | 1220 WEILL | 31616 |
| 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. |
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| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Worthington, Alton Boyd Hale | Mon, Wed | 3117 WEILL | 22953 |
| 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. |
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| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Hess, Michael Levine | Mon | 2548 NUB | 27548 |
| 101 | Rao, Shamita | Mon | ARR | 30125 |
| School: |
Information, School of |
| Prerequisites: |
none |
| Course Description: |
This course provides a foundational introduction to empirical methods, both quantitative and qualitative, that are applicable to health informatics and learning health systems, and that support both evaluation and research studies. |
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| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Fang, Natalie | Wed | 3600 SKB | 22824 |
| School: |
Information, School of |
| Course Description: |
This course will provide students with a hands-on introduction to interaction design. The course will focus on design methods and design thinking, and will allow students to develop their design sensibilities and practical skills through a series of design exercises. The course will cover individual and group ideation techniques; and contemporary perspectives on interaction design for common platforms (e.g., web, desktop, tablet, mobile, and beyond).
The course will combine readings, lectures, and in-class exercises to convey and reinforce the intellectual content. Individual and group assignments will provide an opportunity to engage more deeply with the material. The course work may include substantial individual/group project at the end of the course or a semester-long individual project. In-class presentations, along with group critique will allow students to receive feedback from peers and instructors to improve and refine their craft. In-class discussions will rely heavily on concrete examples that are analyzed and critiqued by students and instructors alike, and are used to illustrate and reinforce the course content. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Dillahunt, Tawanna Ruth | - | 2255 NQ | 19594 |
| School: |
Sociology |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Course Description: |
This core course is intended to help students prepare for the prelim in gender and sexuality. We will ask what does the field of gender and sexuality look like? How did this field take shape? What are the substantive areas? What are the debates? We will read both empirical and theoretical work and will concentrate mostly on scholarship by sociologists and social scientists. |
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| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Zhou, Yun | Mon | 4155 LSA | 35327 |
| School: |
Studies Abroad |
| Course Description: |
The University of Melbourne's Faculty of Arts offers courses in a wide range of disciplines including Women's Studies, Australian and Asian Studies, and English Literature. The Australia Centre, part of the Faculty of Arts, has developed a course for study abroad and other international students entitled "Australia Now," which provides students with an introduction to Australian history and politics and requires them to develop a research project on some aspect of modern-day Australia. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| TBD | TBD | - | | 29189 |