Academic Calendar 2017/2018 - Social Work as Transformative Practice

SWRK 3106  Social Work as Transformative Practice

Prerequisites:

SWRK 1006 or equivalent

Restrictions:

Restricted to students in the 3rd year of the BSW program

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

Students are introduced to the knowledge base, ethics and values of social work. The everyday realities of social workers are explored in historical, theoretical, and ethical frameworks. Processes and effects of structures of oppression and privilege are central, questioning how individual and collective practices may challenge and transform such structures. Concepts of resistance, power, ideology and critical selfreflection ground the course. Students develop and apply frameworks for ethical decision-making in practice