SOCW 5210 - Social Work and Social Justice: Ethical Professional Formation

3 credit hours

This course focuses on personal and professional development toward social work practice for social justice and complements the rest of the social work graduate curriculum by locating the self in a professional and political context. The purpose of this course is to enable students to articulate a personal-professional stance toward social work practice for social justice. This course aims to help students develop the competencies of critical self-reflection, multicultural values and ethics, knowledge, awareness and skills in a variety of ways that they can act against manifestations of social injustices and promote greater diversity and justice. Required.