Social Welfare - Human Rights and Justice

Catalog description

This generalist course lays a theoretically-informed human rights foundation for graduate social work education, elevating the pursuit of social, racial, economic, and environmental justice as core dimensions of social work practice. The course familiarizes students with a global human rights framework and related critical, systems, empowerment, and strengths perspectives, exposes them to current human rights challenges, and engages them in countering these challenges. This course helps students critically examine the state of human rights across a range of diverse and intersectional populations and issues in the United States and expands their lens to consider social work as a global enterprise where lessons are to be learned and contributions made in transnational contexts. This course is offered to students in their first semester of the generalist MSW curriculum. Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the School of Social Welfare.