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SASS 405: Nonprofit Ethics and Professionalism (3 credits)

With Zulma Zabala – President and CEO of East End Neighborhood House; Grassroot Leader; public speaker regarding neighborhood work, advocacy and collectivism

Format: On-campus
Tuesday: 6:30 PM-8:30 PM from 8/25/2025 - 12/5/2025

This course is an application of ethical frameworks and analysis to nonprofit organizations. Using cases and essays, the course will help nonprofit managers become better equipped to address ethical problems and dilemmas in their work in the following areas: ethics of boards, ethics and leadership, ethics and organizational culture, professional ethics, and ethics and fundraising.

SASS 428: Nonprofit Board Governance (3 credits)

With . 

Format: On-campus
Wednesday: 4:15 PM-6:15 PM from 8/25/2025 - 12/5/2025

This course explores the definition, history and concept of trusteeship, the areas of responsibilities of Boards of Trustees, the authority of Boards and the limits on its exercise, the organization of Boards and their committees, and the Board's relationships with the Executive Director, the staff and the organization's constituencies.

SASS 500: Restorative Practices: Ethos and Embodiment (3 credits)

With Mark Chupp, Associate Professor; Founding Director, Community Innovation Network

Format: On-campus
Thursdays from 6:30 PM-8:30 PM from 8/25/2025 - 12/5/2025

This course offers an in- depth examination of restorative practices rooted in principles of empathy, accountability, and community-centered solutions to harm. Restorative Justice and Restorative Practices offer an alternative to traditional Western/settler approaches to crime and wrongdoing. While increasingly popular in Euro-centric societies, restorative practices have their origins in indigenous cultures, wisdom and practices across New Zealand, Africa and North America.  This course explores restorative justice theory and practices across diverse contexts and populations. The course is designed to appeal to micro- and macro-focused students, especially to students who seek to blend both.

SASS 500: Operationalizing Antiracism for Everyday Impact (3 credits)

With Mark L. Joseph – Leona Bevis/Marguerite Haynam Professor in Community Development; Founding Director, National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities; Faculty Associate, Center on Poverty and Community Development 
With Jennifer A. King – Co-Director, Center on Trauma and Adversity

Format: Hi-flex (on-campus or via zoom)
Tue : 6:30 PM-8:30 PM from 8/25/2025 - 12/5/2025

Gain advanced skill-building experience that equips you with the tools, techniques and practices for effective antiracism. This course approaches antiracism as “a purposeful way of seeing and being in the world in order to transform it” (Lerner, 2021). Be equipped for a career disrupting racism in all its forms and manifestations at the internalized/intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional and system level. This course focuses on issues of race and racism in the U.S. context, but the antiracist concepts and skills can be applied globally.

SASS 507: Community Theory and Practice (2 credits)

Format: Online via Zoom
Tuesdays from 6:30 PM-8:00 PM

This theory and practice course introduces community (or macro) practice social work. This course advances multiple theories (critical social theory, community capitals theory, conflict theory) and methods of community practice for social workers as agents of social change. Students learn to design and implement a participatory assessment process at a community level and provides foundational theories and assessment methods. Students learn to conduct quantitative research for assessing community needs and assets. Course work focuses on the development and application of practice skills in work with communities and organizations, particularly models and skills in community building. Focusing on real world situations, the course includes both didactic and experiential teaching and learning. The course integrates and applies foundation learning in the areas of social policy, diversity, discrimination with theories of power and empowerment, human capabilities and asset based community development.

SASS 509: Group Theory and Practice (2 credits)

Format: Online via Zoom
Wednesdays from 8:30 PM-10:00 PM

Group Theory and Practice (GTP) focuses on theory and practice with groups, with a particular emphasis on task groups, psychoeducational groups, skill development and remediation groups, and mutual aid groups. The overarching goal of GTP is to develop culturally competent social work generalist practitioners who possess the knowledge and skills necessary to practice ethically with groups in diverse social work practice settings. This course is structured to include pre-recorded lectures to be viewed before class, and discussion and experiential laboratory learning in the class session. In addition to watching the pre-recorded lectures, there is also considerable preparation time required before each class session, and students develop weekly reflections after each session. The lab portion will consist of student participation in a live mutual aid group / task group regarding their experiences in the social work program and will provide the opportunity for students to practice group work skills and receive constructive feedback from the instructor and peers. Major social work approaches to practice with groups, such as stages of group development, group roles and norms, group leader's varying roles will be introduced to frame students' learning in this approach to social work practice. Skills for beginning practitioners relevant to work with groups will be a major focus of work in readings, videos, lectures, and during the skills lab. The introduction and application of skills will focus on the strategies needed to carry out generalist practice with groups, namely engagement, assessment, goal setting/treatment planning, intervention and evaluation, termination and follow-up. The skills taught in the lab are intended to provide a foundation that students can build on in field placements and further in advanced methods courses. The role of race, ethnicity, culture, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, physical and mental disability or illness, age, and national origin in social work practice with groups will be highlighted throughout the course. Although this course focuses on working with groups, the transactions between groups and community or organizational environments will be integrated to give attention to the manner in which group work can be instrumental to achieving social and economic justice. The development of reasoning and critical thinking skills will be discussed and developed including factors that influence decision-making processes and the need for ongoing self-evaluation. 

SASS 579: Cognitive Behavioral Interventions (3 credits)

Format: Online via Zoom
Thursdays from 8:30 PM-10:00 PM

This course acquaints students with the theoretical, conceptual, and skill bases of several cognitive-behavioral approaches to practice. Topics include assessment, use of tasks and homework, coping skills, cognitive restructuring, and problem solving approaches to practice. The course draws upon students' field and work experiences to illustrate the application of the concepts and skills under discussion.

SASS 425: Nonprofit Financial Management (3 credits)

Format: Online via Zoom
Tuesdays from 8:30 PM-10:00 PM

This course focuses on techniques and principles of financial management including budgeting, finance and investment decision making. Topics include budget formulation, analysis and planning, present value analysis, cost-effectiveness, cash flow analysis, portfolio management, and venture planning. Special emphasis will be given to the unique problems of nonprofits in capital formation, generating earned income, managing endowments, gifts and grants, and tax planning.

SASS 500: LGBTQIA2S Health and Wellbeing (1 Credit) 

With Dana Prince – Associate Professor

This course will introduce a variety of issues facing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual and Two-Spirit (LGBTQIA2S+) individuals and communities at the micro-, meso- and macro-levels. We will begin with an examination of historical and contemporary movements for LGBTQIA2S+ liberation and equity, and understand how these histories inform the current landscape of key policies, issues, trends and dilemmas pertaining to LGBTQIA2S+ people and communities. We will examine and analyze factors that promote, inhibit and otherwise influence the implementation of social policy and explore the procedures and techniques used by LGBTQIA2S+ people and communities, social workers and social agencies to bring about social change. Then we will examine processes and factors related to LGBTQIA2S+ health and wellbeing including the process of coming out, social stigma, family acceptance, chosen family and queer kinship, sexuality and relationships, community organizing, impact of policies, and ways to work towards resistance and resilience.

SASS 500: Operationalizing Antiracism for Everyday Impact (3 Credits)

With Mark L. Joseph – Leona Bevis/Marguerite Haynam Professor in Community Development; Founding Director, National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities; Faculty Associate, Center on Poverty and Community Development 
With Jennifer A. King – Co-Director, Center on Trauma and Adversity

Gain advanced skill-building experience that equips you with the tools, techniques and practices for effective antiracism. This course approaches antiracism as “a purposeful way of seeing and being in the world in order to transform it” (Lerner, 2021). Be equipped for a career disrupting racism in all its forms and manifestations at the internalized/intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional and system level. This course focuses on issues of race and racism in the U.S. context, but the antiracist concepts and skills can be applied globally.

SASS 518: Social Work with Death, Grief and Loss (3 Credits)

With Michaela Jackson-Smith

This course focuses on the concept of death and related topics from a social work perspective. Such topics include the role of death in American culture, the dying process and its institutions, assessment and intervention strategies, life span and family life considerations, and end-of-life decisions. The course provides both theoretical and experiential exposure to the dying process as it relates to self, the dying person and the bereaved. Additionally, other forms of loss such as divorce, independence and physical/cognitive functioning will be explored. Students will gain insight into intervening with those experiencing loss and grief across the life course, including those terminally ill and those clients dealing with difficult life-and-death decisions regarding loved ones.

SASS 405: Nonprofit Ethics and Professionalism (3 Credits)

With Zulma Zabala – President and CEO of East End Neighborhood House; Grassroot Leader; public speaker regarding neighborhood work, advocacy and collectivism

This course is an application of ethical frameworks and analysis to nonprofit organizations. Using cases and essays, the course will help nonprofit managers become better equipped to address ethical problems and dilemmas in their work in the following areas: ethics of boards, ethics and leadership, ethics and organizational culture, professional ethics, and ethics and fundraising.

SASS 500: Operationalizing Antiracism for Everyday Impact (3 Credits)

With Mark L. Joseph – Leona Bevis/Marguerite Haynam Professor in Community Development; Founding Director, National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities; Faculty Associate, Center on Poverty and Community Development 
With Jennifer A. King – Co-Director, Center on Trauma and Adversity

Gain advanced skill-building experience that equips you with the tools, techniques and practices for effective antiracism. This course approaches antiracism as “a purposeful way of seeing and being in the world in order to transform it” (Lerner, 2021). Be equipped for a career disrupting racism in all its forms and manifestations at the internalized/intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional and system level. This course focuses on issues of race and racism in the U.S. context, but the antiracist concepts and skills can be applied globally.

SASS 523: Introduction to Neuroscience in Social Work Practice (1 Credit)

With J. Richard Romaniuk – Lecturer

This one-credit course provides an introduction to cognitive neuroscience principles useful in social work practice. Class discussion will focus on how events of the physical world may affect an individual's perception, mental functioning and behavior, as an individual and as a member of the community. Information gained in this course will help students to understand the complexity of the human adult nervous system in health and disability, including trauma and addiction as well as the role of neural processing in cognitive interventions.