Social Welfare - Advanced Policy Analysis

Catalog description

This advanced course builds on students' generalist social policy knowledge, as well as their understanding of policy practice as a key dimension of social workers' professional responsibility. With an emphasis on advanced understanding of policy processes, this course equips students for leadership in policy intervention—as administrators, substantive policy experts, and/or advocates. Through advanced readings, applied policy analyses, class discussions, and critical reflections, this course equips students with policy analysis frameworks which facilitate sophisticated examination of policymaking and policy evaluation in different institutional domains: legislative, agency, regulatory, budgetary, and judicial. Students will complete this course prepared to examine the policy levers through which to address identified problems, compare alternatives for policy reform, and reframe issues to elevate social work values of social, economic, racial, and environmental justice. Prerequisite: Must be admitted to the School of Social Welfare. Completion of all social welfare generalist requirements.