Diversity and Social Justice

Catalog description

This course is aimed at enabling students to engage in diversity and difference in practice with people who have multiple, intersecting dimensions of diversity, including (but not limited to): age, class, color, culture, disability and ability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, immigration status, marital status, political ideology, race, religion/spirituality, sex, sexual orientation, and tribal sovereign status. Using an overarching critical theoretical framework of oppression and liberation/resilience, students will learn to critically evaluate the social and historical sources of contemporary social problems. Awareness of the multiple intersecting dimensions of privilege will be a running theme throughout the course. Students will engage in continuous self-awareness and critical consciousness to understand how to manage personal values and their effects on the diverse people with whom social workers work. Students will work to become an ally and work in solidarity with others and advance the human rights of these populations.