Offered each Spring. The purpose of this course is to provide students with an overview of social work values, practice, social welfare history, policies, and needs to which the social work profession has responded. It includes a 40-hour field practicum within a social service setting providing students with exposure to professional social work practice. Offered each Fall. A study in the strains experienced by various minorities in the United States, particularly the black population, within both historical and contemporary contexts.
Emphasis is upon understanding the limitations in practice of the American democratic ideal.
A further purpose is to promote an awareness of recent changes in the status and attitudes of minorities in light of that ideal. Offered each Fall. An introduction to the ways in which cultural groups of people respond to their environment as they perceive it. The student will gain an understanding of basic principles of cultural anthropology as it relates to the other basic divisions of the discipline of anthropology. Offered Fall 1999-2000 and alternate years.