Diversity, Engagement, Inclusion, & Social Justice

Catalog description

Through a social work practice lens, this course will examine how experiences based upon diversity and differences shape individuals, families, communities, and society across in social, economic, and environmental areas. Students will explore the contours of differences and the dynamics of diversity, privilege, and oppression. A major focus of the course will include self-analysis of experiences and values related to diversity and difference. Another area of emphasis will be on developing skills of engagement and critical contextual thinking and analyses to prepare for work with individual clients. Students will also examine various theoretical perspectives that inform systematic oppression and provide a culturally grounded approach of distributive justice.