Course Outlines

Larry Bennett, Ph.D.   Jane Addams College of Social Work  University of Illinois at Chicago

• SocW 460 (Research)    This course will include the role of research in social work, and the interpretation and critical analysis of research reports in social work. The course will provide the foundation to equip students to be consumers of published research and to engage in building knowledge to enhance practice and service delivery through the use of scientific methods. This is done to support the education of social workers for use with and on behalf of clients from urban at-risk populations. Emphasis throughout the course will be placed on preparing students to identify research findings that will assist them in being more effective practitioners.
• SocW 517 (Family Violence)     This course is an elective for 2nd year MSW students at the University of Illinois-Chicago.  The course developes an ecological approach to understanding and intervening with individuals and families impacted by various types of family violence: physical, psychological, and sexual abuse of children, women, and elders.
• SocW 565 (Single System Designs)    This course examines the methodology of single-system research and helps students apply it to evaluate their own practice with individual clients, couples, families, groups, or larger systems in a variety of settings, with an emphasis on vulnerable, at risk, urban populations, including women, racial and ethnic minorities, gay and lesbian persons.  Content includes the selection of change goals or targets for a single-system study, ways to operationally define and measure change in clinical practice, ethical issues, protection of human subjects, single-system research designs, choice and verification of clinical interventions, and evaluation of findings.  Emphasis will be placed on co-development of change targets and measures with clients.  Students will plan and carry out a single-system study within their concentration.]
• SocW 592 (Social Work Research Models and Knowledge Building)  Social Work 592 is an introductory doctoral-level course that examines the functions and processes of research in social work, knowledge-building processes, and the contributions of multiple research models to the growth of knowledge for the profession. The course is intended to advance the development of scholarship that contributes to social, racial, and economic justice, consistent with the mission of the Jane Addams College of Social Work: to educate professional social workers, to develop knowledge, and to provide leadership in the development and implementation of policies and services on behalf of the poor, the oppressed, racial and ethnic minorities, and other at-risk urban populations.
  This course assumes familiarity with one of the basic social work research texts.
  
  
• SocW 567 (Research Project)     This independent project, if taken for three credits, meets the advanced research requirement for MSW students.  The course is a year-long independent research project carried out in collaboration with the students field placement.  I am willing to supervise 567 Research Projetcs in domestic violence intervention/program evaluation.