Foundations of Social Policy and Service Delivery

Catalog description

The course focuses on ethical dilemmas inherent in social policy issues, the political and organizational processes used to influence policy, the process of policy formulation, advocacy, and the use of ethical reasoning in frameworks for examining social policies in light of principles of social, economic, and environmental justice. It examines the philosophical, historical, and socioeconomic foundations of social welfare and the evolution of social policy and the social work profession in the United States. Students are taught to consider current social policy within the context of historical and contemporary factors that shape policy.