Social Policy & Program Evaluation

Catalog description

This course provides the knowledge and skills needed to examine social welfare structure, policies and programs to understand their relevance to the delivery of human services to populations in need. The course examines social welfare policy historically, conceptually, and ideologically. Students will be able to identify basic issues, concepts, values, frameworks and ethical issues that define social welfare policy and influence their ability to work with diverse groups and populations at risk and to think critically using an analytic approach to highlight the forces/issues (political, economic, ideological) that facilitate or inhibit changes in social policies and human service programs.