Mindeo MP725 - Independent Study

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AT UWO:
MPA 711: Politics, Policy and Public Administration
MPA 729: Health Care Organization and Management
MPA 760: Administrative Law
MPA 797-071 (Fall): Nonprofit Management
MPA 797-071 (Spring): Labor Management Relations in the Public Sector
Students may also take Advanced HBSE courses as electives.
Students should note that SW 643 (UW Oshkosh) is not an approved elective option because the
content is too close to the content offered in SW 721, Multi-level Family Interventions, which is
a required practice course for students in the Advanced Direct Practice concentration.
Independent Study
Purpose
An independent study provides a student with the opportunity to obtain specialized, in-depth
knowledge in an area of professional practice of particular concern to that student. Independent
study projects should not duplicate existing courses in which students could otherwise enroll.
Instead, the project should provide the student with an opportunity to more intensively examine a
particular social work issue or practice area with greater intensity than would otherwise be
offered in a classroom experience. The projects should reflect:
1. The student’s interest in one or more aspects of the curriculum: research, social work
practice, human behavior and the social environment, policy and program development,
or diversity.
2. The student’s interest in a specific area of practice (hospital social work, child welfare,
gerontology, etc.) or aspect of human functioning (delinquency, aging, mental health,
child abuse, etc.).
The student should plan to spend at least three hours per week per credit preparing to complete
the project. The outcome of an independent study project might be a traditional research paper,
an annotated bibliography, development of materials and a presentation for social work
colleagues, development of a brochure to be used with clients, etc.
The faculty member supervising the independent study project must be regularly available to the
student to provide ongoing oversight for the project.
Additional information about the independent study process is available in the Graduate
Bulletins at UW Oshkosh and UW Green Bay.
Each student must discuss with the faculty member supervising the independent study project,
the type of research processes involved in the project. As a result, any possible requirements that
may need to be met with the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of the university will also be
explored and completed when necessary.