Understanding Multicultural Social Work Practice

Catalog description

Prerequisites: All General Education Requirements (with exception of SWK 495, capstone course) and all SWK prereqs. This course focuses on multicultural social work practice with diverse populations, including the intersectionality of multiple factors that affect these diverse groups. Factors of intersectionality may include race, ethnicity, age, class, color, culture, disability and ability, physical and emotional challenges, gender, gender expression, immigration status, marital status, political ideology, religion/spirituality, sex, sexual orientation, tribal sovereignty and status, and socioeconomic status as well as implicit and explicit biases. Students are introduced to the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical knowledge base related to oppression, privilege, and empowerment and social, economic, political, and cultural factors that create the exclusion of individuals. This course will help students understand the nature of social justice and human rights within the framework of social work practice, values, and ethics and address social justice issues within sociopolitical patterns of power and privilege.