Course Description
ENG101-ENG410 English III- VI
English Language Support Unit
Year II-III, Semesters I & II
As most textbooks and research books in Cambodia are written in English or French, foreign language acquisition is essential for professors and students alike. The development of students’ knowledge base and research skills across all disciplines at the Royal University of Phnom Penh is an outstanding goal of this foreign language program.
HSW 201 Social Issues of Cambodia
Teacher: RUPP Staff
Year II, Semester I
HSW 202 Individual Practice I
HSW 207 Families & Group Practice
Lecturer: Meng Dalin and Leang Lo
Year II, Semester I and II
This is a two course sequence prepares students for entry-level generalist practice with the knowledge and skills needed for effective and accountable social work practice with individuals, families, small groups and service delivery systems to promote maximal functioning and quality of life.
HSW 203 Community Empowerment Practice I
HSW 208 Community Empowerment Practice II
Lecturer: Ros Thoeun, Sil Sineng, Montiel Len
Year II, Semester I
This is the first of a two-semester course sequence that prepares students for entry-level generalist practice with organizations, communities and policy structures. Using a social systems perspective, these institutions are viewed as both tools and targets for change efforts. The courses focus on strategies, tactics and skills necessary to engage in organizing activities. It emphasizes principles common to various types of organizing. It addresses why people organize; how organizing works; and what it takes to be a good organizer. The course employs an empowerment perspective that serves to increase personal and collective political power through collective interventions, and the principles of evidence-based practice to guide the analysis of social problems and the development of organizational, community, and policy solutions.
HSW 204Causes & Consequences of Poverty
Lecturer : Chun Bora
Year II, Semester I
This course is a critical analysis of poverty in Cambodia and globally, with an analytic and descriptive focus on measurement, processes of production and perpetuation, and public policy responses.
HSW 205 Policy and Governance
Lecturer: Nguon Sophak kanika
Year II, Semester I
This course offers a critical overview of policies, regulations, laws, service and institutional contexts, ethical principles, and practice issues related to social welfare. It applies a social justice framework to understanding and analysing the organization of services and major policy issues relevant to social work practice.
HSW 206 Community Service Learning I
HSW 211 Community Service Learning II
Lecturer: Leang Lo and Meng Dalin
Year II, Semester I
This course presents a unique opportunity to develop a better self-understanding of why one might choose social work as a field of study and discover where you could make a valuable contribution in the future as a professional, volunteer and citizen. It is an opportunity for students to explore the world of practice and find social work meaning in every day life. Using a praxis experiential learning approach, students can expect to spend 3 hours a week in a community setting each semester learning about the mission of the agency and engage in direct service and one hour of classroom debriefing.
HSW 209 Organization and Administration
Lecturer :Nguon Sophak Kanika
Year II, Semester II
This course will enhance students’ understanding of organizational structures and how to manage organizations. Students will be exposed to dynamic leadership and effective management styles and strategies.
HSW 210 Social Work Research Methods
Lecturer: Chun Bora
Year II, Semester II
This course provides an introduction to the research methods in social welfare. The course provides students with the basic principles and skills for evaluating their social work practice and prepares students to be effective consumers of published research. Emphasis will be placed on the logic of the scientific method, understanding the interrelated stages of the research process, understanding and critiquing the research literature, learning strategies for gathering information and approaches to the analysis of data.
HSW 301 Psychology Elective
Year III, Semester I
HSW 303 Policy Practice and Advocacy Related to Women
Lecturer: Ung Kim Kanika
Year III, Semester I
The course acquaints students with major issues related to policies and laws that impact women’s situations. Students will critically examine assumptions underlying existing social policies and institutional contexts globally. Drawing upon policy practice content introduced in the foundation year, this course examines the roles that social workers fulfill in the development, implementation, and analysis, of social policy and service systems that affect the lives of women and how social workers may catalyze reform.
HSW304 Community Practice for HIV Prevention and Intervention: A Lifespan Approach
Lecturer: Chun Bora
Year III, Semester I
This course focuses on multi-systemic social work practice related to HIV/AIDS including prevention and treatment options. Students will examine how families and communities provide preventive education as well as programming related to symptom control and care planning as well as end of life decisions.
HSW 305 Strategies for Working With Trauma
Lecturer: Meng Dalin
Year III, Semester I
A multigenerational perspective will be used to examine clinical interventions for several kinds of trauma such as childhood sexual abuse, or battering at any age. Different techniques for healing trauma will be explored. Linkages between micro-, meso- and macro-practice will be investigated.
HSW 306 Practicum I
HSW 311 Practicum II
Practicum Coordinator
Year III, Semester I&II
Students gain hands on experience working in the field with in programs and organizations who practice social work. The first year practicum focuses on the development of skills that have been introduced in foundation courses.
HSW 307 Policy Practice and Advocacy Related to Disabilities
Lecturer: Nguon Sophak Kanika
Year III, Semester II
This course examines major issues related to policies and laws that impact the lives of people with disabilities from an international perspective. Students will critically examine assumptions underlying existing social policies and institutional contexts globally. Drawing upon policy practice content introduced in the foundation year, this course examines the roles that social workers fulfill in the development, implementation, and analysis, of social policy and service systems that affect the lives of people with disabilities and how social workers may enable reform to occur.
HSW 308 Intergroup Dialogue
Lecturer: Montiel Len
Year III, Semester II
Inter-group dialogue is course designed to bring together different social identity groups (as defined by race, ethnicity, gender, class and other social identities) to have sustained conversation about power and cultural differences and take action to address inequalities, to empower people to cross racial and social divisions in communities and build a more socially just society. In this course student go through the process of intergroup dialogue as well as learn how this process can be implemented in social work practice.
HSW 309 Vulnerable Children and Families
Lecturer: Sok Phaneth
Year III, Semester II
This course builds on the core frameworks and competencies acquired in the foundation classes to help students develop specialized knowledge and skills for working with children and families. The emphasis of the course is on family- and community- centered assessment and intervention within an ecological framework and offering a spectrum of interventions from prevention to treatment.
HSW 10 Mental Health Assessment
Lecturer: Lo Leang
Year III, Semester II
This course provides an overview of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) and ICD classification for mental diagnoses.
HSW 401 Senior Project I
HSW 406 Senior Project II
SW Faculty
Year IV, Semester I
Students will complete a two course senior project which may involve an empirical analysis or the design and implementation of a change strategy.
HSW 402 Leadership and Program Development
Lecturer: Sil Sineng
Year IV, Semester I
This course focuses on the theoretical tools and techniques of practice needed by those who wish to specialize in human services agency administration through the functions of leadership, program planning, design and implementation. Students will be asked to draw on and further develop both analytical and applied knowledge and skills that are involved in the various stages of managing people and programs.
HSW 403 Prevention, Public Health, Primary Care and Emergency Settings
Lecturer: SNH staff
Year IV, Semester I
This health care practice course teaches health care theory, knowledge and practice skills used by health care social workers in prevention, public health, primary care and emergency care settings. The course approaches health care practice from a biopsychosocial, ecological, contextual, multi-cultural, and interdisciplinary and lifespan perspective.
HSW 404 Practice focused on Chemical Dependency
Lecturer: Meng Dalin
Year IV, Semester I
The goal of the course is to provide students with the knowledge and basic skills to recognize and understand the dynamics of chemical dependency in the lives of individuals, how to assess the presence of this disorder and what the issues are in referring individuals to treatment for this disorder.
HSW 405 Practicum III
HSW 410 Practicum IV
Lecturer: Practicum Coordinator
Year IV, Semester I & II
Students will continue to gain advanced experience working in the field with programs and organizations who practice social work. The second year practicum focuses on developing greater expertise and specialization of skills.
HSW 407 Financial Management in Human Services Programs
Lecturer: Chun Bora
Year IV, Semester I
The acquisition, management, and development of resources are major concerns for human services managers. This course emphasizes key concepts and techniques of budgeting and financial management common to human service programs and agencies, including budget development, resource allocation, fiscal record keeping and reporting, and cost analysis. The course is designed to expose students to common financial management concepts and practices that are integral to agency operations. The course utilizes practical textual material, case examples, lectures, and discussions. Students are also expected to utilize spreadsheet software where needed to complete course assignments.
HSW 408 Critical Empowerment Practice in Communities
Lecturer: Montiel Len
Year IV, Semester I
The major course foci are principles of empowerment practice, discourses of community, community representation, assessment, and strategies of community development in the context of ethnic minority communities. The course focuses on domestic examples of community change efforts, but also seeks wisdom from efforts in the global arena.
HSW 409 Vulnerable Children and Families II
Lecturer: Sok Phaneth
Year IV, Semester I
builds on the core frameworks and competencies acquired in the foundation classes to help students develop specialized knowledge and skills for working with children and families. The emphasis of the course is on family- and community- centered assessment and intervention within an ecological framework and offering a spectrum of interventions from prevention to treatment.
