Global Community Practice

Catalog description

Required of all graduate Social Work majors, this course focuses on the community as the unit of intervention. Students will be introduced to the spectrum of macro social work practice from a global perspective. Students will learn the skills necessary for conceptualizing and facilitating social change, whether at the agency, neighborhood, state, federal or international level. Direct action (grassroots) organizing will be the framework for learning about social change. Examines international organizing movements and how these compare to organizing efforts in the United States. Students must earn a grade of B or higher in this course or it will have to be repeated.