- LIS 1100: Intellectual Growth & Inquiry (2 hours)
- SWK 2000: Intro to Social Work (3 hours)
- SWK 2050: Social Work Research (4 hours)
- SWK 2250: Human Behavior & Social Environment (3 hours)
- SWK 2300: Exploring Human Diversity (3 hours)
- SWK 3210: Social Work Practice I (3 hours)
- SWK 3220: Social Work Practice II
- SWK 3230: Social Work Practice III (3 hours)
- SWK 3700: Social Work Field Forum (3 hours)
- SWK 3810: Social Welfare Policy Issues & Service I (3 hours)
- SWK 3820: Social Welfare Policy & Issues II (3 hours)
- SWK 4230: Crisis Intervention (3 hours)
- SWK 4410: Field Instruction I (6 hours)
- SWK 4420: Field Instruction II - Cultural Responsive (6 hours)
- SWK Elective: (3 hours)
- SWK 4015: Senior Seminar Capstone (3 hours)
Gen. Ed. Designation: EL (S - Service Learning).
This is an introduction to the methods of scientific inquiry and their relevance to social work. Topics include research design, problem formulation, measurement, data analysis, and ethics in research. Fundamentals of analyzing research reports will also be emphasized. * a 1-hour, web-based lab is included to expand knowledge of APA formatting, Evidence-based practice, and statistical applications. Fall.
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This course examines the biological, psychological, and social development of the individual at different lifespan stages. Students learn about human behavior from the perspective of developmental milestones as well as environmental, societal and cultural issues and contexts. Spring and Fall.
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An examination of the knowledge, values, and skills basic to the generalist practice of social work. Students utilize an understanding of the social work process to develop skills in problem-solving with individuals, and families. A videotape experience is provided for skill-building and evaluation opportunities. Fall.
This course is emphasizes practical knowledge and techniques for effective group leadership and facilitation. This course will highlight the skills necessary for each phase of group work. This course will also cover topic such as, types of group, stages of groups, how to plan a group, basic skills, how to use exercises and activities, using theory, and how to deal with problem situations that may arise. This course will help future social workers prepare to lead groups in a variety of settings. Spring.
This course is an examination of the knowledge, values, and skills basic to the generalist practice of social work within groups, organizations and communities. Students build upon the principles of practice from a person-in-environment perspective and apply to macro-level systems. A continuation of SWK 3210 and SWK 3220, this is the concluding course in the three part Social Work practice sequence. Content includes a further application of the generalist model of problem solving within macro systems, with a focus on community development, organizational management, leadership, and grant writing. Fall.
A forum for junior Social Work majors preparing them for entrance into their field instruction. The course covers, but is not limited to, agency selection, mission statement, client population, student role in an agency setting, professionalism, Social Work values and ethics, and responsibility. Spring.
An examination of the institution of social welfare with emphasis on the history and systemic nature of service programs. Students examine economic and political processes that impact on the social welfare system especially as they relate to oppressed populations. Students will also be introduced to social policy analysis. Fall.
This course frames the role of professional Social Work in basic policy making using a broad array of beginning policy practice skills, with a focus on student research and advocacy. Students will analyze and attempt to influence the development of social policy within the broader community, focusing specifically on social welfare policies related to local problems and social service delivery within the state of Tennessee. An understanding of politics, economics, cultural and Social Work values will be utilized in a critical examination of the ways in which diversity, oppression and discrimination shape policy formation and service delivery. Students will present their policy analyses at the Belmont Undergraduate Research Symposium. Spring.
Crisis intervention will take into account various environments and populations across the lifespan to provide students with practical guidelines for managing crisis such as suicide, abuse, grief and loss, violence, and disasters. Multiple crisis assessment models will be presented giving students the freedom to select a model that best fits their personal style or a given crisis. Future mental health professionals will gain the knowledge, skills, and confidence to help their clients manage when a crisis occurs. Fall.
Two hundred and fifty clock hours of field instruction, supervised by a professional social worker in a social service agency, provide the student an opportunity to implement knowledge learned in foundation courses. Emphasis is on developing generalist social work practice skills. Concurrent with a 1 1/2 hour weekly seminar. Fall.
Gen. Ed. Designation: EL (I - Internships, Clinicals, Practica).
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Prerequisites: SWK 3230, SWK 4230, and SWK 4410
250 clock hours of field instruction supervised by a professional social worker in a social work setting. This course helps to strengthen the development of the generalist social work and the use of self. A deeper consideration of values and social issues is emphasized. Concurrent with a 1 1/2 hour weekly seminar. Spring. Gen. Ed. Designation: EL (I - Internships, Clinicals, Practica). |
This is the culminating experience capstone course for graduating seniors to demonstrate mastery of the professional social work foundation, and prepare them to systematically evaluate their own practice through a major integrative assignment. Spring.
This is the culminating experience capstone course for graduating seniors to demonstrate mastery of the professional social work foundation, and prepare them to systematically evaluate their own practice through a major integrative assignment. Spring.
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
Total Credits Needed for Graduation: 128
- Social Work Major Courses: 52 credit hours
- BELL Core/General Education: 50 credit hours (minimum)
- General Electives: 26 credit hours (minimum)
- Students who earn a degree at Belmont must take their last 32 hours of credit at Belmont. 64 hours must have been earned from a senior college or university.
BELL Core/General Education Courses
Part 1 BELL Core: Signature Courses
- BEL 1015: First Year Seminar (3 hours) **
- Interdisciplinary Learning Community: (one course)
- Junior Cornerstone: (0 or 3 hours - hours may be combined in another category) **
- ENG 1010: First Year Writing (3 hours)
- ENG 3010: Third Year Writing (3 hours) **
- Religion: (6 hours either Path A or Path B)
Partly as introduction and transition to college life, all first time college students entering Belmont are required to take GND 1015: First-Year Seminar. The theme of the course is “ways of knowing” and you will explore the nature of knowledge, how it differs from mere belief, and the various ways in which human beings construct and evaluate knowledge claims. Individual faculty members choose sub-themes for their own sections, with a variety of topics including Japanese culture, dreams, finding common ground, and voodoo. No matter the sub-theme, you will improve and develop your reading and critical thinking skills.
Transfer students who have a full year of college experience at another accredited institution will be granted a waiver for FYS. No amount of AP or dual enrollment credits can result in a waiver.
Interdisciplinary Learning Communities (ILC) are one of the critical ways the BELL Core helps you see that all the various academic disciplines are interconnected. In your Interdisciplinary Learning Community Courses, you will be enrolled in two different courses that each have the same group of students. The instructors in the two courses work deliberately to explore a connection between the two disciplines. For instance, your link might be between a political science class and a chemistry class. In both classes, from two different points of view, you might examine the relationship that does or should exist between science and public policy. Or you might link a computer science course and a literature course focusing on science fiction, and examine the relationship between humans and machines. Note that the classes you link are not requirements above and beyond the other requirements. Presumably, both of the courses you link will also help meet other graduation requirements. In the first example above, the student would also be receiving science credit for the chemistry course, and social science credit for the political science class.
Students bringing in at least 30 hours of credits (including transfer, AP, dual enrollment and IB) are exempt from ILC.
Junior Cornerstone (JCS) ensures that Belmont students have an encounter with collaborative learning, learning through teamwork, as part of their liberal education. Junior Cornerstone is not a class above and beyond the other BELL Core requirements, but a particular way of meeting one of those requirements. You might meet your humanities requirement by taking a Philosophy or English Junior Cornerstone. You might meet your Third-Year Religion requirement by taking it as a Junior Cornerstone. No matter which class you take as your Junior Cornerstone, you will learn to work better with others, engaging together to solve problems, complete projects, and even present your work. A substantial portion of your grade will be determined by how well you collaborated, not merely the quality of the final product.
While many students meet their Junior Cornerstone requirement studying abroad, it cannot be met by transfer, AP, dual enrollment, etc.
Effective written communication is essential for all academic disciplines, and it is a skill that is central to a liberal education. Unlike many institutions, Belmont requires both a first and third year writing course. In First-Year Writing (ENG 1010), you will learn that writing is a process of discovery as you hone your skills in personal, expository, and (especially) argumentative writing. Third-Year (ENG 3010) writing focuses on more advanced skills of academic writing, with particular emphasis on integrating academic research into argumentative essays, usually in your own academic field. You should take First-Year Writing in the fall of your freshman year, and Third-Year Writing in the spring of your junior year.
Students can transfer in any appropriate first year college writing course for ENG 1010, or receive credit for it by getting a 4 or 5 on the AP English Language and Composition. The ENG 3010 cannot be met by transfer credits.
Effective written communication is essential for all academic disciplines, and it is a skill that is central to a liberal education. Unlike many institutions, Belmont requires both a first and third year writing course. In First-Year Writing (ENG 1010), you will learn that writing is a process of discovery as you hone your skills in personal, expository, and (especially) argumentative writing. Third-Year (ENG 3010) writing focuses on more advanced skills of academic writing, with particular emphasis on integrating academic research into argumentative essays, usually in your own academic field. You should take First-Year Writing in the fall of your freshman year, and Third-Year Writing in the spring of your junior year.
Students can transfer in any appropriate first year college writing course for ENG 1010, or receive credit for it by getting a 4 or 5 on the AP English Language and Composition. The ENG 3010 cannot be met by transfer credits.
The BELL Core religion requirement does not advocate a specific doctrine, but it seeks to provide opportunities for students to reflect deeply on the role of religion in human life, understand the variety of religious experiences, and have an intellectually sophisticated encounter with the Bible. To meet the requirement, you will take two religion courses, one in your first year and one in your third year. There are two different paths to complete this requirement.
Path A
REL 1020: Introduction to the Old Testament (taken in the first year) (3 hours)
REL 3050: Introduction to the New Testament (taken in the third year) (3 hours) OR
REL 3950: Study Abroad
Path B
REL 1010: Understanding the Bible (taken in the first year) (3 hours)
One of the following eight topical courses in the third year:
REL 3015: Junior Cornerstone Seminar (3 hours)
REL 3020: Ancient Wisdom for Contemporary Issues (3 hours)
REL 3030: God, the Bible, and Scientific Discovery (3 hours)
REL 3060: Jesus and Gospel in the Film (3 hours)
REL 3080: Questions That Matter (3 hours)
REL 3090: Spirituality in World Religions (3 hours)
REL 3095: Ethics in World Religions (3 hours)
REL 3950: Study Abroad (3 hours)
Though religion courses transferred in from accredited institutions will typically count toward the requirement, all Belmont students are required to have an academic encounter with the whole biblical text. Therefore, for example, a student transferring in a World Religions course would have to take Understanding the Bible (REL 1010) to complete the BELL Core requirement.
Part 2 BELL Core: Foundation Courses
- COM 1100: Fundamentals of Speech Communication (3 hours)
- Social Sciences: (3 hours)
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Asian Studies (ASN): 2010, 2015, or 3015 (3 hours)
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Communication Studies (COM): 2020, 2140, 2015, or 3015 (3 hours)
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History (HIS): 1000-2999, 2015, or 3015 (3 hours)
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Political Science (PSC): 2015 or 3015 (3 hours)
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Sociology (SOC): 1000-1999, 2015 or 3015 (3 hours)
- Humanities: (3 hours)
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English (ENG or ENL or ENW):
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Foreign Language (CHN, FRE, GER, GRK, ITL, JPN, LAT, SPA):
- Fine Arts: (3 hours)
- Mathematics: (3 hours)
- Lab Science: BIO 1010 - Biological Science (4 hours) Technical Requirement
- Wellness: (3 hours) Path A or Path B or Path C
- WEL 1600 Health and Fitness Concepts (2 hours) and one activity course (1 hour) (choose from WEL 2000-2999)
- WEL 1500 Lifetime Fitness (1 hour) and one activity course (1 hour) (choose from WEL 2000-2999 and one of the following NUR courses (1 hour):
- NUR 1100 Wellness Nutrition (1 hour)
- NUR 1110 Wellness and Mental Health (1 hour)
- NUR 1310 Healthy Beginnings: Wellness Across Pregnancy and Birth (1 hour)
- NUR 1320 Women’s Health: Wellness Across the Lifespan (1 hour)
- NUR 1330 Health Promotion of the Family (1 hour)
- NUR 1340 Men’s Health: Wellness Across the Lifespan (1 hour)
- WEL 1700 Health and Fitness Concepts with Activity (3 hours) or
- WEL 3015 Junior Cornerstone Seminar (3 hours)
Courses from those and related areas that are transferred from accredited institutions will generally count toward the social science requirement. There are also several AP tests in those areas, generally requiring a 4 in order to receive Belmont credit.
See catalog or Degreeworks for specific courses that will count for general education in each area.
Choose just one course from one of the following academic areas:
Courses from those and related areas that are transferred from accredited institutions will generally count toward the humanities requirement. There are also several AP tests in those areas, generally requiring a 4 in order to receive Belmont credit.
See catalog or Degreeworks for specific courses that will count for general education in each area.
Choose just one course from one of the following academic areas:
Choose just one course from one of the following academic areas:
Choose one of four options. Students must complete at least 2 hours of academic concepts plus 1 hour of an activity (3 hours total).
Path Aor
Path Bor
Path CPart 3 BELL Core: Degree Cognates
According to the academic catalog, students should choose Degree Cognates in a different subject than the courses applying to the Foundations Courses (choose from 2 different prefixes).
- Social Sciences: (6 hours)
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Asian Studies (ASN): 2010, 2015, or 3015 (3 hours)
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Communication Studies (COM): 2020, 2140, 2015, or 3015 (3 hours)
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History (HIS): 1000-2999, 2015, or 3015 (3 hours)
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Political Science (PSC): 2015 or 3015 (3 hours)
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Sociology (SOC): 1000-1999, 2015 or 3015 (3 hours)
- Mathematics 1150: Elementary Statistics (3 hours)
- Science: PSY 1100: General Psychology (3 hours) OR PSY 1200 Intro to Psych. Science (4 hours)
Courses from those and related areas that are transferred from accredited institutions will generally count toward the social science requirement. There are also several AP tests in those areas, generally requiring a 4 in order to receive Belmont credit.
See catalog or Degreeworks for specific courses that will count for general education in each area.
An introduction to statistical reasoning. Topics include descriptive measures, elementary probability distributions, sampling distributions, one and two sample inferences on means and proportions, simple linear regression, and correlation. Case studies of real data will relate to various fields of interest. Special emphasis will be placed on communication of statistical results through projects using computer software. Credit is not allowed for this course if the student already has credit for MTH 1151. This course will not count toward either a major or a minor in mathematics.
PSY 1100: General Psychology (3 Hours): Does not count toward hours required for a PSY major or minor. An introductory course dealing with scientific methods in psychology, sensation, perception, biological foundations of behavioral principles of development, motivation, learning, abnormal behavior, inter-personal processes and other topics. Prerequisite to all other psychology courses. Students may only count PSY 1100 or PSY 1200 in the General Education Core, but not both.
PSY 1200 Intro to Psychological Science (4 hours): Does not count toward hours required for a PSY major or minor. An introductory course which surveys the field of psychology. The course emphasizes the scientific methods of the discipline and incorporates active learning experiences via the laboratory component. Prerequisite to all other psychology courses. Three hours lecture and two hours laboratory per week. Students may only count PSY 1100 or PSY 1200 in the General Education Core, but not both. $50.00 course fee.