Entry Requirements
Diploma in Social Work with a GPA of 2.0 and above.
The Curriculum includes the following courses:
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Year 3
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Semester I
- DSW 311 - Advanced Social Work Practice I
Credits : 4
This course is designed to expand knowledge and practice skills in working with clients from diverse social work practice settings. It is intended to help students encounter, embrace and examine issues, approaches, methods, techniques and skills about Social Work Practice from a variety of sources, including the students own personal and/or work experience.
It is assumed that students will bring to the classroom a variety of assets including a unique personality, valuable learning experiences, and a dynamic potential for growth and change. The emphasis during the first semester is on theory while in the second semester the emphasis will be on skills.
- DSW 313 - Introduction to Counselling
Credits : 4
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the fundamental skills and concerns of beginning counseling practitioners. It is designed to teach the significance and relevance of interpersonal interaction in all disciplines. Students will learn about the role of the practitioner as well as how the counseling relationship evolves.
Additional attention will be given to the usage of basic listening skills and active listening responses such as paraphrasing and confrontation.
- SOC 215 - Elements of Survey Sampling and Social Statistics
Credits : 4
This course is designed to give students of Social Sciences an introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics, in order that they will be able to:-
- Employ graphical and numerical techniques for describing data.
- Plug simple data into formula and arrive at correct answers.
- Understand what these answers mean and do not mean.
- This course also gives students an exposure to elementary survey sampling and an understanding of the role of sampling in data collection and statistical procedures.
- SOC 217 - Social Psychology I
Credits : 4
This course is designed to assist students to examine themes, theories and research pre-occupations of Social Psychology. The focus is on reciprocal relationships between the individual and society, some sociological perspectives in social psychology emphasizing the individual in group interaction.
- SOC 318 - Marriage and the Family
Credits : 4
This course more properly entitled “An introduction to the Sociology of Marriage and the Family” is designed to introduce the student to the concepts and analysis of the family from the sociological perspective. An overview of marriage and the family in history and various cultures including the Caribbean will be presented. Emphasis is placed on the position of women in this context as their visibility has been a much neglected dimension in the academic realm.
The course is not a prescription for successful or happy marital and familial relationships. It is hoped that with this intellectual base the student will become a more knowledgeable and adaptable participant in personal, community and social matters of marriage and the family.
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Semester II
- DSW 321 - Advanced Social Work Practice II
Credits : 4
This course is the continuation of Advanced Social Work Practice I. It is intended to develop awareness of essential skills and techniques necessary for service provision and to provide opportunities for creative utilization of same in and out of the classroom. Social Work trainees on the Degree Programme will derive immense benefits from this core course since it is designed to enhance practice effectiveness from exposure to the field of social welfare.
- DSW 322 - Science and Testing of Practice
Credits : 4
This course focuses on an individual intervention project conducted by students under the supervision of the lecturer. It introduces students to methods of self-assessment of intervention through critical thinking, scientific reasoning and the application of techniques towards outcome evaluation.
- DSW 324 - Social Service Delivery Analysis
Credits : 4
Human Service agencies ought always to review their philosophy, mandate, mission, line of business, etc. relative to changing times and changing roles and goals. Indigenisation and athentisation of social programmes are key aspects in the analytic review
- SOC 227 - Social Psychology II
Credits : 4
This course is designed to assist students to examine themes, theories and research pre-occupations of Social Psychology. The focus is on reciprocal relationships between the individual and society, some sociological perspectives in social psychology emphasizing the individual in group interaction.
- DSW 328 - Social Work in Addictions
Credits : 4
Drugs and the cost of abuse and addictions have an enormous impact on individuals and entire communities around the world. This course examines the most popular drugs of abuse in Guyana (alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine) and their impact on the individual and the community. Students will learn the process of addiction, the pharmacology of the aforementioned drugs, approaches to treatment, the recovery process, use and disease, and use and pregnancy.
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Year 4
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Semester I
- DSW 317 - The Sociology of Punishment & Corrections
Credits : 4
Intervention with and treatment of juvenile and adult offenders with institutions, through community based systems, and through systems of probation and parole.
- DSW 310 - Professional Development I
Credits : 4
The attributes of a profession are understood within the professionalisation of social work. Force field analyses and process recordings are practised in preparation for practicum in Semester II.
- WST 410 - Gender & Development I
Credits : 4
- DSW 314 - Community Practice
Credits : 4
This course seeks to give participants grounding in the concepts, characteristics, purposes and process of community as a social organization.
It begins with an overview of community and the context in which organizing takes places. It then deals with several important aspects of community work including people, problems, participation and varying goals.
The course also addresses issues pertaining to the increasing influence/activitism of communities in the Era of Globalization.
- SOC 314 - Social Sciences Methodology I
Credits : 4
This course is designed to equip students with:
- an understanding of the philosophical foundation of the social sciences.
- a conceptual basis for conducting a research
- a definitional clarity of the principal concepts used in the literature.
- a working knowledge of the relationship(s) between hypothesis/theory and research methodology ideas of the scope of diversity of specific research strategies.
- an understanding of how research projects are designed to answer research questions empirically.
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Semester II
- DSW 320 - Professional Development II
Credits : 4
approaches, methods, techniques and skills in practice situations outside of traditional agency setting under the supervision and ultimate responsibility of the course tutor.
The classroom is viewed as the learning forum in which theory and practice can be utilized in an atmosphere of learning to promote conscious use of self.
Practitioners are encouraged to bring their experiences from their years of practice and from prior field placements to enrich the class experiences.
- SOC 420 - Caribbean Social Structure
Credits : 4
The main objectives of this course is to relate some of the basic sociological concepts to the experiences of countries in the Caribbean. These include Guyana, West Indian Islands, Haiti, Cuba and Suriname. Emphasis will be placed on the historical process of Caribbean formation and transformation within the world system.
- DSW 323 - Social Work in the Medical Field
Credits : 4
The course is an introduction to the range of biopsychosocial conditions that are manifestations of mental disorders. It uses the expertise of available medical, legal and other assistance, exposes students to the impact of side - effects of certain medications and offers guided social work interventions with mentally ill persons: mental disorders; DSM IV classification of mental disorders; typical signs and symptoms of psychiatric illness; history and treatment of mental illness; the social workers’ roles engaging families and natural support systems; education for care-givers; uses and writing of social history; conceptualization and advocacy for a continuum of care.
- SOC 324 - Social Science Methodology II
Credits : 4
This course is intended to provide students with an understanding and practical (hands-on) experience in the crafting of a research proposal. It is a follow-up to SOC 314 and is essentially task - oriented requiring students to choose a research question or problem, basic research methods, theories and statistical techniques for their respective research projects.
Students are trained to follow a specific format in logical order in achieving the final out-put the research proposal.
- DSW 325 - Social Work and the Aging
Credits : 4
The course is designed to expose students to general overview of the major issues and gerontological perspectives on social work and the aging with reference to the Caribbean and other societies: myths and attitudes about aging and the aging process; definition of social gerontology; demographic aspects of aging; social theories of aging; social work with the aged; aging and health; the psychological context of aging; social context of aging, social work and families and groups; social policies to address social problems.
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