Pre-Social Work INDIVIDUAL PROGRAM INFORMATION 2014 2015 866.Macomb1 (866.622.6621) www.macomb.edu
Pre Social Work PROGRAM OPTIONS CREDENTIAL TITLE CREDIT HOURS REQUIRED NOTES Associate of Arts Pre Social Work 62 Designed to transfer to a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) program CONTACT INFORMATION CONTACT TITLE NAME PHONE E MAIL LOCATION Associate Dean 586.286.2282 AandS.center@macomb.edu Center Campus Associate Dean 586.445.7354 AandS.south@macomb.edu South Campus Program Description: The Associate of Arts degree in Pre Social Work program is designed to provide students with the basic competencies, knowledge, and skills needed to transfer to a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) degree program. Completion of a BSW provides the minimum credential required to pursue licensure and entry level employment. The Masters Degree in Social Work (MSW) has become the standard for meaningful and gainful employment as a professional social worker. Career Opportunities: Pre Social Work Associate of Arts Job titles such as Social & Human Service Assistant are attainable upon completion of this course of study. To learn more from a career specialist, visit the Office of Career Services at either campus or explore online at www.onetonline.org. Transfer Pathways: Students intending to transfer and complete a bachelor s degree need to make early decisions concerning an academic major and a transfer destination. Statistics show that students who make these decisions early are more likely to persist to graduation than their undecided counterparts. Students planning to transfer credits earned at Macomb are strongly urged to see a counselor or academic advisor as early as possible in their college careers. 8 Transfer Resource Guide 1
ASSOCIATE OF ARTS IN PRE SOCIAL WORK Career preparation and related courses (require successful completion of a minimum of 62 credit hours) SUGGESTED SEQUENCE BASED ON FULL TIME ENROLLMENT. MAY ALSO BE COMPLETED BASED ON PART TIME ENROLLMENT. CORE COURSES: COMMON DEGREE CORE REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSOCIATE OF ARTS IN PRE SOCIAL WORK COURSE COURSE TITLE PREREQUISITE SEMESTER 1 Group IA Course: ENGL 1180 ENGL 1210 Communications 1 Composition 1 Placement, or ENGL 0050 or EAPP 1500 with grade C or better. CREDIT HOURS Group IIIA Course: And 1 history course from the following: HIST 1500 Western Civilization to 1648 HIST 1600 Western Civilization Since 1648 HIST 1700 The World Since 1945 3.0 4.0 HIST 2360 Changing of America, 1945 to Present Group IIIB Course: SOCY 1010 Principles of Sociology 4.0 Group IIIB Course: SOCY 1210 Introduction to Social Work 4.0 SEMESTER 2 Group IB Course: Communications 2 ENGL 1190 Composition 2 ENGL 1220 ENGL 1180 or ENGL 1210 3.0 4.0 PSYC 1010 Introductory Psychology 4.0 Group II Course Any ASTR, BIOL, CHEM, ENVS, GEOL, MATH 1000 or above, NATS, PHSA,PHYS See pre requisite for specific course 3.0 4.0 Group V Course Any PHED Wellness course 2000 or above 2.0 3.0 SEMESTER 3 Group IIB Course: BIOL 1000 General Biology 1 4.0 And 1 literature course from the following: ENGL 2610 Introduction to Prose Fiction ENGL 1220 or ENGL 1190 ENGL 2710 American Literature: Colonial to 1865 ENGL 1220 or ENGL 1190 ENGL 2720 American Literature: 1865 to 1920 ENGL 1220 or ENGL 1190 ENGL 2730 American Literature: 1920 to Present ENGL 1220 or ENGL 1190 3.0 ENGL 2800 World Literature to 1400 ENGL 1220 or ENGL 1190 ENGL 2810 World Literature From 1400 ENGL 1220 or ENGL 1190 ENGL 2850 Shakespeare Survey ENGL 1220 or ENGL 1190 INTL 2000 INTL 2300 Introduction to Latin America Introduction to Japan 3.0 4.0 4.0 SEMESTER 4 PHIL 2100 Introduction to Ethics 3.0 POLS 1000 Introduction to American Politics 4.0 NOTES: A minimum of 18 credit hours of Arts & Sciences courses (Groups I V) are needed as well as a minimum of 62 total credit hours for the associate degree. Arts & Sciences Groups I V can be taken in any semester. Select elective courses based on your transfer college/university. It is strongly encouraged that you work with a counselor, advisor or faculty/department coordinator to plan your schedule. 2
Associate of Arts (AA) Degree The Associate of Arts Degree is intended to provide a basic foundation for a Bachelor of Arts Degree program. Requirements Minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.0 Minimum 15 semester hours of credit earned at Macomb AND EITHER Minimum 62 semester hours of credit in courses numbered 1000 or above, which include: A minimum of 32 semester hours of Arts and Sciences courses as described in the Group Concentrations table A minimum of an additional 30 semester hours. These courses may be: Courses numbered 1000 and above selected at the student s discretion; or Courses required in a program (major) which lead to an Associate of Arts degree. These programs include International Studies, Mathematics*, and Pre Elementary Education. * Note: Also available for an Associate of Science degree. Courses required in a college or university transfer plan. While these plans are available on WebAdvisor, students are strongly encouraged to consult a College counselor or advisor for guidance in following transfer plans. Arts and Sciences Courses Required for the Associate of Arts (AA) Degree Courses are to be selected from each of the Arts and Sciences groups. (Senior colleges usually require 6 8 semester hours in each of Groups I IV, not counting performance, studio or applied techniques courses.) Courses offered by other divisions of the College shall not be substituted for the required Arts and Sciences group requirement courses. It is recommended that the composition/communication course in Group I be started within the first fifteen (15) hours of the degree. Courses numbered below 1000 will not count toward the Associate of Arts degree. See Academic Placement Procedures for information on course placement in chemistry, English, English for Academic Purposes, mathematics, and reading. Contact a counselor or academic advisor if you need help in choosing the appropriate course. 3
Course Descriptions BIOL 1000 General Biology 1 4.00 credit hours (formerly BIO 100) An introductory lecture and laboratory course in basic biological principles aimed at an understanding of the life processes common to all living things. The major areas of emphasis include the chemical and cellular basis of life, reproduction, growth, development, heredity, evolution, and ecology. (7 contact hrs) ENGL 0050 Preparatory Composition 3.00 credit hours Prerequisite: Placement (formerly ENG 005) Extensive work with punctuation, sentence and paragraph structure. Designed as preparatory for successful work in freshman composition courses. (3 contact hrs) ENGL 1000 Sentence Structure & Style 3.00 credit hours (formerly ENG 100) Students get a thorough review of sentence elements before moving on to extensive practice with stylistic devices that improve their expression at the sentence level. Designed to give students confidence when they prepare college assignments or do any writing as part of their jobs. (The course cannot be substituted for required composition classes where principles of organization for paragraphs and essays are taught and practiced.) (3 contact hrs) ENGL 1180 Communications 1 4.00 credit hours Prerequisite: Placement, or ENGL 0050 or EAPP 1500 with grade C or better (formerly ENG 118) No credit after ENGL 1210. The focus of this course is college level expository and argumentative writing. This course places extensive emphasis on organization and development of essays along with the study of grammar and mechanics. This course develops competence in English sentence elements and skill in organizing, proofreading, and revising essays. Students who have completed ENGL 1210 successfully should NOT take ENGL 1180. Students will NOT receive credit for both. (4 contact hrs) ENGL 1190 Communications 2 4.00 credit hours Prerequisite: ENGL 1180 or ENGL 1210 (formerly ENG 119) No credit after ENGL 1220. The focus of this course is to continue the development of writing skills learned in ENGL 1180 or ENGL 1210. This course places extensive emphasis upon research and documentation. Students who have completed ENGL 1220 successfully should NOT take ENGL 1190. Students will NOT receive credit for both. (4 contact hrs) ENGL 1210 Composition 1 3.00 credit hours Prerequisite: Placement, or ENGL 0050 or EAPP 1500 with grade C or better (formerly ENG 121) No credit after ENGL 1180. The focus of this course is the writing of expository and argumentative essays. This course emphasizes logical development of ideas and refinement of personal style. Students who have completed ENGL 1180 successfully should NOT take ENGL 1210. Students will NOT receive credit for both. (3 contact hrs) ENGL 1220 Composition 2 3.00 credit hours Prerequisite: ENGL 1180 or ENGL 1210 (formerly ENG 122) No credit after ENGL 1190. The focus of this course is the writing of critical essays based upon readings in literature, and the further development of writing skills learned in ENGL 1180 or ENGL 1210. The course places extensive emphasis upon research. Students who have completed ENGL 1190 successfully should NOT take ENGL 1220. Students will NOT receive credit for both. (3 contact hrs) ENGL 1730 Contemporary American Literature 3.00 credit hours (formerly ENG 173) Reading of American works which are currently influencing and defining thought and art, as a means of introducing stimulating writers and books. Emphasis on discussion and critical analysis. (3 contact hrs) 4
ENGL 2410 Creative Writing 3.00 credit hours or consent of instructor (formerly ENG 241) Course primarily in writing the short story and poetry with emphasis on creation of personal imaginative work. (3 contact hrs) ENGL 2420 Advanced Creative Writing 3.00 credit hours Prerequisite: ENGL 2410 or consent of instructor (formerly ENG 242) Course designed for the experienced writer who has mastered the fundamentals taught in ENGL 2410. Revising and marketing manuscripts will be covered. (3 contact hrs) ENGL 2510 British Literature to 1760 3.00 credit hours This course begins with a study of the literature from the Medieval period and moves to study works written throughout the age of Chivalry, the Elizabethan era, the Seventeenth century political upheaval and Restoration, and the Age of Enlightenment in the Eighteenth Century. Authors that may be covered include Chaucer, Mallory, More, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Raleigh, Donne, Herrick, Marvell, Milton, Dryden, Swift, and Pope. (3 contact hrs) ENGL 2520 British Literature From 1760 to Present 3.00 credit hours This course carries on the study of British Literature from the pre Romantics through the modernist period and into the present day. Authors that may be covered in this course include Blake, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron, Shelley(s), Dickens, Browning(s), Tennyson, Arnold, Rossetti, Hardy, Hopkins, Yeats, Joyce, Eliot, Lawrence, Thomas, and Heaney. (3 contact hrs) ENGL 2600 Introduction to Poetry 3.00 credit hours (formerly ENG 260) Readings to discover and understand the pleasures of poetry. Selections from among the best poems produced by Western Civilization. Writing of critical papers. (3 contact hrs) ENGL 2610 Introduction to Prose Fiction 3.00 credit hours (formerly ENG 261) Reading and discussion of fiction, such as novels, novellas, and short stories. Readings, discussions, and lectures on representative works that have influenced Western Civilization with a consideration of the individual work s style, form, and milieu. Writing of critical papers. (3 contact hrs) ENGL 2640 Children s Literature 3.00 credit hours or consent of instructor (formerly ENG 264) Study of picture books, novels, folk tales, and poetry intended for children from preschool through high school with an emphasis on developing the student s analytical abilities and broadening the student s knowledge of children s literature. (3 contact hrs) ENGL 2710 American Literature: Colonial to 1865 3.00 credit hours (formerly ENG 271) This course begins with the earliest American literature written by Native Americans, and moves on to European expectations, settlements, and explorations of the new world. It also covers the literature of the American Revolution, the literary life of the new nation, culminating in the voices of American Romanticism and anti slavery reform. Authors to be covered may include Bradford, Winthrop, Edwards, Bradstreet, Franklin, Wheatley, Jefferson, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Stowe, and Douglass. (3 contact hrs) ENGL 2720 American Literature, 1865 to 1920 3.00 credit hours (formerly ENG 272) This course presents a study of major cultural and literary developments between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I. We will consider Reconstruction, Western Expansion, industrialization and urban growth, the role of the new immigrants, the woman question and how these issues found literary expression in what is commonly referred to as Realism and Naturalism. Authors to be discussed may include Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Davis, James, Howells, Dreiser, Crane, Norris, Cahan, Dos Passos, Gilman, Chopin, Wharton, Freeman, Jewett, Sinclair, Dunbar, and Chesnutt. (3 contact hrs) 5
ENGL 2730 American Literature, 1920 to Present 3.00 credit hours (formerly ENG 273) This course traces the cultural and literary concerns faced by Americans in the twentieth century; the Depression, World War II, post war prosperity, the ethnic revival of the sixties, and the current political, social, and cultural concerns. Authors to be covered may include Anderson, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hurston, O Connor, Welty, Cummings, Wright, Faulkner, Steinbeck, Odets, O Neill, Miller, Gold, Ellison, Bellow, Malamud, Roth, Updike, Frost, Eliot, Sandburg, Williams, Millay, Moore, Toomer, Hughes, Baraka, Brooks, Baldwin, and Walker. (3 contact hrs) ENGL 2800 World Literature to 1400 3.00 credit hours (formerly ENG 280) World Literature to 1400 provides an examination of works of literature from a variety of cultures, with the time period ranging from the earliest texts known through approximately 1400. Students will apply techniques for literary analysis, including the writing of one or more critical papers that incorporate research on an aspect of world literature. (3 contact hrs) ENGL 2810 World Literature From 1400 3.00 credit hours (formerly ENG 281) World Literature from 1400 provides an examination of works of literature from a variety of cultures, with the time period ranging from approximately 1400 CE on. Students will apply techniques for literary analysis in the writing of one or more critical papers that incorporate research on an aspect of world literature. (3 contact hrs) ENGL 2850 Shakespeare Survey 3.00 credit hours (formerly ENG 285) Study of Shakespeare s life, sonnets, comedies, histories, and tragedies. Writing of critical papers. (3 contact hrs) HIST 1600 Western Civilization Since 1648 4.00 credit hours (formerly HIST 1210) The people, ideas, and movements, both revolutionary and reactionary that shaped modern western history. (4 contact hrs) INTL 2000 Introduction to Latin America 4.00 credit hours (Humanities credit) This multidisciplinary course will draw on the arts, humanities, social science, history, and geography to examine significant questions using Latin America as the basis. These questions relate to the encounter of cultures, of forging community, notions of rights, revolution, and dependence and change in a globalizing world. The course will also explore an understanding of the roots of Latin America civilization with its ethnic diversity, including a profile on the Latin Americans descendants in the United States and an analysis of the role of military and US policies toward Latin America, the impact of the external debt, free trade agreements and their effects on the environment. (4 contact hrs) INTL 2300 Introduction to Japan 4.00 credit hours (formerly INTL 2911) (Humanities credit) This course draws on the arts, humanities, social science, history, and geography of Japan. This course discusses the encounter of cultures, centrality of family, veneration of nature, synthesis of foreign ideas, and Japan s role in the global community. (4 contact hrs) PHIL 2010 Introduction to Philosophy 3.00 credit hours (formerly PHI 201) Designed to show the relevance of philosophical problems to the student himself. The student is challenged to develop a consistent response to such problems as: free will versus determinism, the limits of knowledge, the basis of good and evil, personal conscience versus legal obligation, etc. Traditional and modern philosophers are read for discussion and critical evaluation. (3 contact hrs) 6
POLS 1000 Introduction to American Politics 4.00 credit hours (formerly PSC 100) Survey course dealing with the major aspects of American politics: its policy making process and structure at all levels of government. (4 contact hrs) SOCY 1010 Principles of Sociology 4.00 credit hours (formerly SOC 101) The student will study the origin, development, organization and function of human societies. Emphasis will be on culture, socialization, group behavior, social stratification, and social change. (4 contact hrs) SOCY 1210 Introduction to Social Work 4.00 credit hours SOCY 1210 is an introductory behavioral science course that covers the historical, theoretical, and methodological systems that produced social welfare services and the social work profession. Students will participate in Service Learning during class time. (4 contact hrs) 7