Social Wrk Approach Race Bias

Catalog description

This course explores the complexities of racism in America: the construction of racial and ethnic categories, the impact of racism and discrimination on individuals and social institutions, and the influence of ideology and oppressive policies and practices on social welfare systems and their clients. Students learn about forms and patterns of social and economic injustice based on race and ethnicity that impact American social systems at individual and, particularly, institutional levels. Students develop conceptual frameworks and social work practice approaches necessary to fulfill their professional responsibility to combat social ills and to work to dismantle racism and bias.