SOWK 691 - Anti-Racist Social Work Practice in Action

3 Hour(s) Credit
Critically evaluate attitudes, values and beliefs regarding diversity and identity formation while utilizing theoretical frameworks for understanding oppression and privilege. Using anti-racist and anti-oppressive frameworks, critique the social work profession, including the NASW Code of Ethics. Scrutinize service delivery and the relationships among power, privilege and oppression that occur on micro, mezzo and macro levels of practice, particularly social and organizational policies and the implementation of those policies. Shift power toward inclusiveness, accessibility, equity and social justice. Create and implement strategies for combating social injustice, including abolitionist and anti-racist social work practice.
Three hours per week
Prerequisites Admission to M.S.W. Program or permission of M.S.W. Program director