Global Social Work: Reflective Practice for Justice and Peace
Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Social Work students.
This course provides an introduction to social work practice in an international context. The emphasis is on understanding cross-cultural peace-building practices using clinical skills and community action activities that build civil society structures and promote peaceful resolution of socially traumatized experiences. This course includes video conferencing.
Outcomes: Demonstrate and apply anti-racist, diversity-informed, and human rights-based frameworks to analyze global issues of oppression, inequality, and justice across diverse cultural contexts; Integrate and synthesize policy, advocacy, and global practice models to develop strategies that influence international social welfare systems and promote equitable and sustainable community development; Design and evaluate culturally responsive and collaborative interventions that strengthen cross-national partnerships and promote social change, peace-building, and community resilience.
This course provides an introduction to social work practice in an international context. The emphasis is on understanding cross-cultural peace-building practices using clinical skills and community action activities that build civil society structures and promote peaceful resolution of socially traumatized experiences. This course includes video conferencing.
Outcomes: Demonstrate and apply anti-racist, diversity-informed, and human rights-based frameworks to analyze global issues of oppression, inequality, and justice across diverse cultural contexts; Integrate and synthesize policy, advocacy, and global practice models to develop strategies that influence international social welfare systems and promote equitable and sustainable community development; Design and evaluate culturally responsive and collaborative interventions that strengthen cross-national partnerships and promote social change, peace-building, and community resilience.