Academic Catalog - 2023-2024

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Department of Social Work

US Mexico Border Social Work, Minor


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This plan will not be available to new students after Summer 2024

The social work profession is dedicated to enhancing human well-being and to help meet the basic human needs of all people, with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty. The minor in social work introduces students to practice with diverse populations and multi-level social systems.
 
The program is focused on practice with U.S. Mexico Border populations; addressing poverty, structural racism, and oppression; providing leadership in promoting human rights and social and economic justice; and service with vulnerable and underserved populations.

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Academic Catalog - 2023-2024

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Department of Social Work

US Mexico Border Social Work, Minor


Careers

What Can I Do with a Minor in U.S. Mexico Border Social Work?

Are you passionate about social and economic justice along the U.S. Mexico border? Do you want a rewarding career working with those populations along the U.S. Mexico border that are disenfranchised, vulnerable, and oppressed? Is your passion to provide service to diverse individuals, groups, and communities? A social work minor at NAU-Yuma will help you accomplish these academic and professional goals. With a minor in social work, you can expand your current major by applying knowledge on social policy and special topics on social work like healthcare, child welfare, and more.

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Academic Catalog - 2023-2024

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Department of Social Work

US Mexico Border Social Work, Minor


University Requirements

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Academic Catalog - 2023-2024

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Department of Social Work

US Mexico Border Social Work, Minor


Overview

In addition to University Requirements:

Students may be able to use some courses to meet more than one requirement. Contact your advisor for details.

No more than fifty percent of the units used to satisfy minor requirements may be used to satisfy major requirements.

Minimum Units for Completion 21
Major GPA C
Some online/blended coursework Required

Purpose Statement

The US Mexico Border Social Work minor provides students with the knowledge, values, and skills required to those social and economic injustices issues along the US Mexico border.  The US Mexico Border Social Work minor is guided by a person and environment construct, a global perspective, respect for human diversity, and knowledge based on scientific inquiry.  This perspective is an excellent preparation for a wide variety of occupations along the US Mexico border.  The purpose of the US Mexico Border Social Work minor is actualized through its quest for social and economic justice, the prevention of conditions that limit human rights, the elimination of poverty, and the enhancement of the quality of life for all persons living along the US Mexico border.
 
Our curriculum is designed for students to be exposed to the CSWE core competencies: professional identity, ethical practice, critical thinking, diversity in practice, human rights and justice, research based practice, human behavior, policy practice, practice contexts, and the planned change process.  This curriculum is provided to the students through traditional classroom lecture and discussion, service-learning experiences, community change projects, and community engaged research.  Students will leave this program with a sense of leadership and service in the provision of social welfare to people, families, and communities, globally, regionally, and locally.  Our students also leave this program as globally engaged stewards of US Mexico border issues and committed to Hispanic populations, the Defense, Customs and Border Patrol and Military communities.

Student Learning Outcomes

Ethical Practice

Critical ThinkingDiversity in PracticeHuman Rights and JusticeResearch Based PracticePolicy PracticePractice Contexts

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Academic Catalog - 2023-2024

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Department of Social Work

US Mexico Border Social Work, Minor


Details

Minor Requirements
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Academic Catalog - 2023-2024

College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Department of Social Work

US Mexico Border Social Work, Minor


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