The course will concentrate on the analysis of related institutional barriers and constraints affecting racial minorities, homosexuals and women. Attention will be given to the role of social work practice for dealing with institutional barriers affecting these populations. This course serves as an introduction to the common core of concepts including Social Work values and ethics, skills, tasks, and activities which are essential to the practice of social work and which serve as a foundation for further professional growth. Constructs from general systems theory are used both as a way of organizing knowledge and of viewing a range of systems that could be engaged as the social worker practices with individuals. Social work practice is presented as a goal oriented planned change process which is sensitive to cultural diversity.
Emphasis is on both theoretical and experiential learning.
This course is designed to build on the concepts, skills, tasks and activities introduced in SOWK 8130. Social work practice is presented as a goal oriented planned change process with an emphasis on families, groups, organizations, and communities. The focus is on developing skills in planning, collaboration, empowerment and advocacy to effect change. This course is designed to provide individualized and experiential generic learning offered within the setting of a social service agency. The student will be introduced to a variety of social work practice roles, develop professional relationships with client systems and learn to apply a number of interventive modalities to effect change.