*NOTE: this is not a CEU opportunity but an academic course offered
through WVU.  

New Online Course for MSW Students
Social Work Practice in End-of-Life Care – SW 693
Spring 2008

Course Description

This course is offered as a distant learning course and is designed to
integrate MSW students throughout the state into a course focused on
social work with those who are dying and those who are bereaved by
death.  It is designed as an elective course to provide the student with
a broad overview of practice and policy issues that impact social work
practice in end-of-life care and to prepare the social work student for
social work practice with clients coping with terminal illness, loss,
and grief.  The course will meet face-to-face the first week of classes
in Morgantown and will then utilize weekly journal entries; required
responses in a threaded discussion forum; completion of NASW online mini
courses; review of online lecture notes, handouts, and internet
resources; assigned textbook readings; and additional online assignments
to facilitate the student’s learning experience.

Required Texts

Albom, M. (1997), Tuesdays with Morrie. New York: Bantam Doubleday
Dell.

Berzoff, J., & Silverman, P. (2004). Living with Dying: A Handbook for
End-of-Life Practitioners. New York: Colombia University Press.

Csikai, E., & Chaitin, E. (2005) Ethics in End-of-Life Decisions for
Social Work Practice. Chicago: Lyceum Books, Inc.

The course offers a unique opportunity to work in an online environment
with students throughout the state.  Join us this spring.