Social Work: A Journal of the National Association of Social Workers. Peer-reviewed journal focusing on evaluating techniques and research, examining social problems, and critical analysis on issues in the social work profession. Publication of NASW. Social Work in Health Care.
Peer-reviewed journal publishing literature on social work theory, practice and administration. Child Maltreatment. Peer-reviewed journal of the APSAC for practitioners and researchers on scientific information and technical innovations about child maltreatment (medicine, abuse, nursing, child protection,etc).
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences has more than 60 minors, some of which are offered jointly with other units in the university. Minors require between 15 and 21 credits, and all but 8 of those credits usually can be used simultaneously to fill other requirements.
The BS degree provides students with a more intensive approach to the core technical questions of their majors. This curriculum has a reduced number of courses in humanities and social sciences in comparison with the BA degree to allow students to achieve greater depth in their majors.
Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in social justice and human rights. Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in war and the military in society. Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in women and gender studies. Middle East and Islamic Studies.
A minor can complement the major, enhance career preparation, allow students to develop a secondary area of expertise, or give them a chance to explore a passion. The college offers two types of minors: disciplinary and interdisciplinary. The coursework for disciplinary minors comes mainly from a single discipline.
Students accepted into an accelerated master's degree program obtain both a bachelor's and a master's degree after satisfactory completion of 138 - 144 credits (number of required credits depends on the degree program).
Disciplinary minors are offered by one of the 10 departments in the college. Interdisciplinary minors require coursework from two or more disciplines and are administered by interdepartmental faculty groups, often including faculty from across the university. All minors in the college are available to students in any major in the university.
The college cooperates with the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution (Carter School) to provide courses from various disciplines in the college toward a BA, BS, and minor in conflict analysis and resolution.
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA): This database provides extensive coverage of the world's literature on the science, technology, management, and conservation of marine, brackish water, and freshwater resources and environments, including their socio-economic and legal aspects.
The Wall Street Journal is a national newspaper that provides daily coverage of the news as well as of market conditions. In order to use this database, you must REGISTER HERE for a free account first. Once activated, your account will provide access to wsj.com from any location.
Advanced Technologies and Aerospace Database includes the renowned Aerospace Database and provides full-text titles from around the world including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more. For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.
American Film Scripts Online contains over 1,000 scripts "together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes facsimile images for more than 500 of these screenplays. Most of the scripts have never been published before, and nowhere else are they available online."
Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD) is the premier academic research and teaching tool for courses needing quality information for locating Children’s and Young Adult books and other media. The content includes over 2.6 million fiction/non-fiction records with 650,000+ national and international awards plus 540,000+ quality, professional reviews. It includes over 330,000 author/title links plus lesson plans and teaching guides. The search engine offers 45 search-limiters to easily find appropriate materials such as: determining interest & reading levels; select trade books based on standards; create thematic, annotated biographies; interpret reviews; develop STEM book collections and more. Distant education students use a World Cat link to find materials at a local library. Students can set up their own My CLCD account to save their search assignments. Student access is FREE for one year after graduation.
CRSP - The Center for Research in Security Prices contains stock price information from stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. This database is available only at the College of Business.
GreenFile: This new database covers alternative fuel sources, energy conservation, global warming, natural resources, pollution, recycling, and beyond. Anyone with an interest in environmental issues and who needs resource material regarding these subjects will find this database to be an invaluable tool.