Social Welfare Policy and Service Delivery Systems II

Catalog description

SSWO 671 is the second social policy and service delivery course in a two-course sequence. This course has a contemporary focus and further enhances the student's ability to analyze, design, and advocate for social policies based on an understanding contemporary social problems and the politics of issue-framing. This course is designed to familiarize students with the major social policies currently in effect and proposals to revise them and introduce students to advocacy skills for social workers. The major organizing themes of the course are: the divisions among Americans based on income, race, ethnicity and gender, the relationship between social constructions of the problems of the disadvantaged and the realities" of their conditions, collective efforts to close the gaps in income, human rights, and social justice. The impact of social welfare policies and a social work perspective on addressing social problems is prioritized.