COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
SW101. Ethics and Human Rights in Social Work
This course teaches how to coordinate and integrate social work values, philosophy with practice ethics, and human rights. Students are encouraged to discuss ethical issues they have experienced in the field, to analyze case materials, and to exercise problem-solving skills. This in turn will equip students with a more effective approach to ethical conflicts, particularly in terms of advocacy. The course also includes theories, types, justification, and criticism of human rights, etc. With this understanding, the students will learn how to see and reframe human rights violations in daily life.
SW102. Community Organization and Development
This course examines the relationship between localization and community social welfare, as well as current development in rural areas. It is aimed at exploring ways through which social welfare practices meet the needs of residents in rural areas. In particular, discussion focuses on community development, resource utilization, and poverty, as well as the children, disabled, and elderly who need care-giving services. The development of social welfare policies and services geared toward these target populations will be discussed in depth.
SW103. Social Work Counseling & Crisis Intervention
This course focuses on the understanding and application of social work theories and models for individual clients. This includes concepts and techniques of cognitive behavior therapy, rational emotive behavioral therapy, task-centered therapy, solution-focused brief family therapy, and psychotherapy. Crisis theories and intervention strategies will also be discussed. It teaches methods and skills in the intervention of PTSD, natural disasters such as tsunamis, and other types of crises such as suicide, rape, family violence, substance abuse, and loss.
SW104. Social Policy Analysis
This study provides students with various methodological, theoretical approaches to social policy among Western and Asian countries. It is important to understand each country’s policy trends along with their historical and socio-economic changes. Students can learn what the welfare state means and how to differentiate between the most preferable welfare policies in Cambodia and those of other advanced welfare states. By understanding the changes and development of policies in advanced welfare states, students can gain some perspectives on how to best facilitate social welfare practice.
SW205. Social Work with Children and Youth
This course cultivates a social worker's capacity in child and youth welfare by studying the theoretical background and practice methods to improve the understanding of child and youth welfare. The course includes an understanding of fundamental concepts and values, history, policy and institutions, clients and associated services, practice methods, and skills in relation to social work with children and minors.
SW206. Public Health and Social Services
This course provides advanced concepts, strategies, and methods behind public health. It covers public health promotion and the prevention and control of disease, including the importance of policy planning, implementation, and evaluation. The course also helps to build epidemic concepts about the incidence and spread of non-communicable and communicable diseases (such as HIV/AIDS) through monitoring, prevention, and control. The course discusses nutritional problems in developing countries, including the effects of health and nutritional issues, poor and inadequate diets, and susceptibility to illness. It addresses social work practice and service delivery in public health in Cambodia.
SW207. Research Methods for Social Work
This course introduces social science methods to students and promotes students' understandings about the research process for building scientific knowledge. At the end of the course, students would be able to design and conduct independent research under the guidance of a supervisor. For this aim, the course addresses critical reading and analysis, research strategy and planning, proposal writing, quantitative and qualitative methods, and thesis writing.
SW208. Introduction to Social Work
This course provides an overview of social work. The social, political, and historical context in which social work has developed is explored. The social work profession is introduced by presenting students with the current issues the profession faces, the major activities of practice, the population they work with, and guidelines and principles by which they work.
SW209. Advanced Field Practicum Ⅰ
This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to apply practice theories learned in class in a real agency setting. Learning focuses of the practicum include (1) methods of direct service to clients - casework, group work, and community organization; (2) knowledge and differential use of community resources; (3) jobs akin to agency administration - policy, planning, budgeting, staffing, etc.; and (4) tools related to administration – the writing of reports, letters, accounting, the use of research findings, conducting meetings, etc.
SW310. Poverty and Employment Policy
The purpose of this course is to build knowledge of active employment policies for the self-sufficiency of low-income families. The course provides an in-depth understanding of personal and social reasons why the poor cannot or do not work. Cambodian government policies which boost their employment are compared with those in other developed countries.
SW311. Case Management
The course introduces different procedures and skills for the students to coordinate all the helping activities on behalf of the given clients. The course makes it possible for the students to coordinate the services for the given clients, to monitor the progress of clients, to involve multi-dimensional comprehensive assessments, and to work in multi-dimensional settings. The course aims to help students acquire a better understanding of how to manage cases from intake to termination as well as follow-ups.
SW312. Foundation of Social Work Practice
This course equips students with social work methods as a generalist. Students will learn basic theories of social work practice. Students will also develop their assessment and intervention skills, strategies for developing resources, advocacy, case management, and evaluation.
SW313. Statistics in Social Work
This course introduces basic quantitative statistical methods for policy analysis and clinical practice. This course covers the following topics: probability theory, hypothesis testing, chi-square test, t-test, ANOVA and multivariate regression analysis.
SW314. Advanced Field Practicum Ⅱ
This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to apply practice theories learned in class to a real agency setting. Learning focuses of the practicum include (1) methods of direct service to clients - casework, group work, and community organization; (2) knowledge and differential use of community resources; (3) jobs akin to agency administration - policy, planning, budgeting, staffing, etc.; and (4) tools to administration – the writing of reports, letters, accounting, the use of research findings, conducting meetings, etc.
SW415. Master Thesis
In this course, a student is required to meet with his/her supervisor regularly for the necessary guidance and supervision of thesis preparation, and to allow for regular monitoring of student progress.
SW416. Community Mental Health
This course teaches community mental health models and services. It focuses on rehabilitation models, namely the mental health social workers’ role in a multidisciplinary team, the Mental Health Act and mental health delivery system, and some specific issues involved in community mental health. Overall, the course aims to enhance the quality of social workers in the community mental health field.
SW417. Social Work for People with Disabilities
This course is designed to introduce social welfare policies for disabled people in Cambodian society. Concepts of social integration and normalization are examined and connected to practical approaches for actualizing such principles. The emphasis is on increasing students’ understanding regarding disabled people's lives and welfare policies to promote their quality of life. Finally, this course examines social measures and service programs that can strengthen social integration.
SW. International Cooperation & NGO's in Cambodia
This course examines ways to develop economic growth and social development in Cambodia with support from developed nations so that students can have a better understanding of the international inter-country cooperation involved in a regional development. In particular, this course discusses ways to reduce potential problems raised in international cooperation and the roles of governments as well as non-profit organizations. It also evaluates international efforts to help Cambodia by international organizations and NGOs.
SW. Family Social Work Practice and Domestic Violence
This course focuses on violence which occurs among family members, especially abuse and the neglect of various segments of the population such as children, women, and the elderly. It introduces theories of family development and family process such as the family life cycle and family functioning. It also teaches methods and skills to deal with those issues and intervention strategies for victims and those who commit family violence. Welfare policy and social advocacy for family violence will also be discussed, as well as the importance of social institutions and services in promoting healthy families.
SW. Social Work Practice for People with HIV/AIDS
This course examines psychological, familial, and social issues that HIV/AIDS individuals and their families experience. Discussion will be focused on ways to develop and implement social services for people with HIV/AIDS. The study will also provide intervention skills for helping children with HIV/AIDS and children in need of rehabilitation, hospice service, and so forth.
SW. Understanding Social Problems in Cambodia
Students will gain an understanding of social problems in Cambodia and try to find answers to theoretical questions by examining macro problems involving population and development, political power, economic inequality and unemployment, poverty, environmental abuse, schooling, and unequal opportunities. They then examine micro problems including violence in the family, criminal behavior, prostitution, corruption, gambling, drug abuse, and neglected street children.
