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SOWK 436: Administration, Management and Evaluation

This course introduces students to concepts, principles and practices of administration and human service management.  It explores issues such as planning, teambuilding, organizing, human resource management, directing, coordinating, reporting, budgeting...

SOWK 435: Social Work and the Law Courts

The course is designed to reflect the role of social work in the operations of the criminal justice system. It examines concepts and terminologies such as criminal justice, criminal delinquency probation, parole, aftercare and recidivism.  Also examined...

SOWK 434: Working with Groups

The course focuses on working with therapeutic groups. It examines concepts of group formation, group dynamics, members’ roles, termination and follow-up. It also introduces students to the importance of influential theories on group work and the skills...

SOWK 433: Approaches to Counselling

This course focuses on theoretical approaches to counselling. Counselling skills that will be emphasised include: recognition and interpretation of non-verbal communication, active listening, use of open questions, empathic responding, focusing, summarizing...

SOWK 432: Working with Children

This course highlights the basic knowledge and skills required to work with children, and targets people whose aim is to build a profession around children. The course addresses issues of human rights relating to children. It discusses the developmental...

SOWK 431: Human Rights in Social Work Practice

This course focuses on concepts and contents of human rights. It examines international, regional and national conventions and legislations on human rights with specific reference to the rights of vulnerable populations. Additionally, the course reviews Ghana...

SOWK 430: Long Essay

This is a supervised optional student research project which begins in the first semester.  Students at Level 400 who opt for long essay are required to submit their topics before proceeding for long vacation fieldwork placement.

SOWK 348: Medical Social Work

This course reviews the history of medical social work with particular reference to Ghana. It examines the role and responsibilities of medical social workers, networking and future trends of medical social work.  The course focuses, among other things,...

SOWK 346: Women and Children’s Rights and Protection

This course critically examines human rights issues specifically related to women and children. It focuses on existing policies, programmes, Acts, conventions and services at both international and local levels. It aims at promoting and protecting the welfare...

SOWK 345: Community Organisation

The course is designed to help students have a clear understanding of community organisation as a field, process and method of social work and how the social worker uses it to help communities.  It examines the principles and techniques of community...

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