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: | Information, School of |
|---|---|
| Course Description: | This course aims to create information tools that support 21st-century citizenship. This is a project-based, experiential learning course where students apply their skills to create information products in partnership with a Michigan community. Students will work with partners in Michigan communities to deliver information tools and services that foster an engaged citizenry. Students will work in teams, travel to the partner community, and have support of administrative staff to manage projects. |
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | TenBrink, Scott | - | 2185 NQ | 31148 |
| School: | Information, School of |
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| Prerequisites: | Graduate status |
| Course Description: | Introduction to the concepts and practices of health informatics. Topics include: a) major applications and commercial vendors; b) decision support methods and technologies; c) analysis, design, implementation, and evaluation of healthcare information systems; and d) new opportunities and emerging trends. |
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Threats, Megan | Mon, Wed | 0420 CCCB | 19439 |
| 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. |
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Park, Sun Young | - | 2255 NQ | 19491 |
| 002 | McCarley, Tonya Renee | - | 2185 NQ | 19492 |
| 003 | Brenton, Stephanie | - | G390 DENT | 22720 |
| 005 | McCarley, Tonya Renee | Wed | 2244 USB | 32709 |
| School: | Information, School of |
|---|---|
| Course Description: | Intensive overview for managing information as a critical organizational asset and the various accountability risks associated with their neglect. Social, legal, and policy requirements such as trust, evidence, compliance, and social transformation will be examined alongside ongoing tensions between preservation and destruction, secrecy and transparency, and privacy and openness. |
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Wallace, David A | - | 2255 NQ | 26520 |
| School: | Information, School of |
|---|---|
| Credits: | 3 |
| Prerequisites: | SI 501 (or taken concurrently) or permission of instructor |
| Course Description: | Course reflects "children's culture," including television, movies, games, toys, etc.. As well as being a survey course covering the media and culture of children and young adults, this course serves as an "introductory" course to give students information and skills that they can use in other SI courses in which they might be working on or with materials for children and young adults. Content includes resources for the study of media for children and young adults (bibliographies, journals, review publications, critical writings, Internet sites, organizations, awards and best books lists, etc.); characteristics and interests of the age groups; history and development, including current publishing trends of media for children and young adults; evaluative criteria for media; illustrations in children's media; potential use and value of this media in a variety of settings (libraries, schools, museums, zoos, hospitals, homes, Internet, etc.); and, of course, the media itself (materials for babies and pre-schoolers, picture books, chapter books, fiction, young adult novels, informational and reference materials, films and videos, filmstrips, audio/sound recordings, computer applications, multimedia CD-ROMs, Internet/Web sites, movies, television and radio programs, games, toys, etc.). Format is lecture with class discussion and possible guest speakers. Students are required to read/view, etc., and critically evaluate a large number of media items and keep a journal or log of this reading, viewing, listening, observing, etc. There may also be some short "evaluative" assignments. There is an individual project or term paper. |
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Bhomia, Neha | - | 2245 NQ | 28729 |
| School: | Sociology |
|---|---|
| Credits: | 4 |
| Course Description: | Structure and change of minorities in society; theories and research: historical, contemporary, and comparative; processes of adjustment: patterns of immigration, prejudice, discrimination, assimilation, pluralism, conflict, and social movements. |
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Robinson, Ian | Mon, Wed | 3330 MH | 26629 |
| School: | Sociology |
|---|---|
| Credits: | 3 |
| Course Description: | Economic globalization is one of the most powerful drivers of social change in the contemporary world. This course asks what economic globalization is, why it takes the form that it does, and how it affects the lives and livelihoods of the more vulnerable working people in the bottom half of the income distributions of the poor countries of the global South and the rich countries of the global North. We survey the range of economic realities faced by the men, women and children who labor for their income in these locations within their economies. We consider the structural changes in those realities that have occurred over the last quarter century, and the causes of those changes. We consider the kinds of reforms to the existing, neoliberal model of global economic regulation demanded by workers' organizations and their allies, and debates over the likely consequences of these changes. Finally, we consider whether (and if so, how) the U.S. labor movement and its allies can increase their political power enough to make the U.S. government an active contributor to the global economic regulation reforms favored by organized labor. |
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Robinson, Ian | Mon, Wed | 3330 MH | 26629 |
| School: | Sociology |
|---|---|
| Credits: | 3 |
| Prerequisites: | SOC 101. |
| Course Description: | Theoretical and empirical literature on family and sex roles; socialization, changing nature of women's and men's roles, and prospects for future. Institutional sources of women's and men's roles in other cultures. |
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Robinson, Ian | Mon, Wed | 3330 MH | 26629 |
| School: | Sociology |
|---|---|
| Credits: | 4 |
| Course Description: | Explores community organizing history, theory and practice. Emphasizes development of conceptual framework/practical skills for organizing effectively in the community for social, environmental and economic justice |
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Fogleman, Elyssa Mayumi | Mon, Wed | B844 EH | 30741 |
| 002 | Balagopal, Mallika | - | 4128 LSA | 31125 |
| 003 | Balagopal, Mallika | - | 4128 LSA | 31126 |
| 004 | Balagopal, Mallika | - | 4128 LSA | 31127 |
| School: | Sociology |
|---|---|
| Credits: | 3 |
| Prerequisites: | Classical Sociological Theory |
| Course Description: | Classical theory; Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and other important classical theorists and schools of thought. |
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Fogleman, Elyssa Mayumi | Mon, Wed | B844 EH | 30741 |
| 002 | Balagopal, Mallika | - | 4128 LSA | 31125 |
| 003 | Balagopal, Mallika | - | 4128 LSA | 31126 |
| 004 | Balagopal, Mallika | - | 4128 LSA | 31127 |
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