SCWK 560 - Diversity & Social Justice

This course is a foundation year MSW course that focuses on issues of diversity, oppression, and social justice from a trauma informed lens that is designed to advance student’s knowledge on cultural patterning and histories of diverse social identity groups in the U.S. and the differential impacts of past and present attitudes, beliefs, practices, and policies on the lives of individuals, families, groups and communities. This course utilizes an ethnographic perspective to provide a basis for analyzing the degree to which social structure and values may oppress, marginalize, alienate or enhance privilege and power.Typically offered Spring.
Level: GR
Credit Hours: 3

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Department: SCWK