SOWK 321 - Social Welfare Policy

Credits: (3)

Instructional Method: Three hours lecture.
Prerequisites: Admitted to social work major or permission of instructor
This course intends to help students raise and answer questions concerning the use of social policy in the development and delivery of social services and programs. Students will describe behaviors, beliefs, ideologies, and social institutions using a social policy analysis framework to analyze interactions of beliefs including historical and persisting dilemmas-ethical, political, social, cultural, and economic-explicit and implicit in social welfare provisioning. The purpose of the course is to develop the student’s analytic and critical understanding of social programs, policies, and issues; and how policy is shaped and used to perpetuate oppression and unequal access, with a special emphasis on practicing policy skills.

Note(s): Cultural or Behavioral Analysis designated course.