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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.

Introduction to Global Health: Issues and Challenges NURS 420

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

SectionInstructorDaysLocationU-M Class #
001Tschannen, Dana Jolene-2000 426NIB18475

Advanced Health Assessment for Advanced Practice Nurses NURS 503

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

SectionInstructorDaysLocationU-M Class #
100Jones, Heather-REMOTE22101
101Jones, HeatherWed 22102
200Kuzma, Elizabeth-REMOTE22103
201Lee, DebMon 22104
202Blush, RayMon 22105
203Maguire, Sarah Kathryn-MahaffyMon 22355
204Abdelnabi, Samia JamalMon 22356
205Drummond, NoraMon 22357
102Jones, Heather- 27166
103Jones, HeatherWed 27167
104Jones, Heather- 29892
105Jones, Heather- 32875

Introduction to Global Health: Issues and Challenges NURS 521

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

SectionInstructorDaysLocationU-M Class #
001Eagle, Megan J- 23853

Proseminar in American National Government POLSCI 611

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

SectionInstructorDaysLocationU-M Class #
001Kollman, KenMon5664 HH26447

Sociological Analysis of Deviance PSYCH 488

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

SectionInstructorDaysLocationU-M Class #
001Castle, KateMon, Wed1210 CHEM28542
002McGann, PJWed4128 LSA28544
003McGann, PJWed4128 LSA28546
005McGann, PJ-4128 LSA28548
006McGann, PJ-4128 LSA29525
007McGann, PJ-4128 LSA29527
004McGann, PJWed4128 LSA33906

Special Seminar in Social Work and Psychology PSYCH 808

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

SectionInstructorDaysLocationU-M Class #
010Reuter-Lorenz, Patricia A-ARR20255
006Jahn, Andrew-4464 EH29326
001Lustig, Cindy AnnFri4464 EH30003
002Edelstein, RobinMon3254 EH34745
TBDTBD-ARR34747
008Camp, NickMonARR34748
012Durkee, MylesWed3254 EH34749
013Tronson, Natalie-ARR37129
011Kovelman, Ioulia-3254 EH38004
021Beltz, Adriene Marie-ARR40483
022Beltz, Adriene Marie- 40484

International Trade Policy PUBPOL 541

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

SectionInstructorDaysLocationU-M Class #
001Deardorff, AlanMon, Wed1220 WEILL23746

Data Analysis Using Excel I PUBPOL 647

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

SectionInstructorDaysLocationU-M Class #
001Worthington, Alton Boyd Hale-3117 WEILL24749

Social Activism, Democracy & Globalization: Perspective of the Global South PUBPOL 717

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

SectionInstructorDaysLocationU-M Class #
001Henry, Yazier-1210 WEILL27106

Social Systems & Collections SI 504

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

SectionInstructorDaysLocationU-M Class #
001Munir, ShezaMon0460 CCCB26529
101Munir, ShezaMonARR32508

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