Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practices

Catalog description

This course prepares students to understand and practice anti-oppressive, anti-racist social work. This course will review theories that address conditions that create and sustain social, economic, and political injustice, and equip students to understand how power, racism, privilege, and marginalization oppress individuals, groups, and communities. This course will empower students to develop critical awareness through experiential, self-reflective and interactive activities to promote anti-oppressive social work practice skills at the individual, family, group, organizational and community levels.