Academic Calendar 2023/2024 - Foundations of Social Work Practice

SWRK 2006  Foundations of Social Work Practice

Prerequisites:

30 credits completed

Hours:

Three hours per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

Students are introduced to the foundations of social work and how the profession’s core values are applied in practice at the macro, messo and micro level. They further conceptualize anti-oppressive, structural and feminist approaches and Indigenous theories to address power and privilege, inequality, discrimination and intersectionality. The social work process is developed including a holistic or bio-psychosocial approach and cultural competence. Practice in northern, rural and remote communities is also examined.



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