HUSE 3800 - Social Work Practice with Historically Excluded Groups

(3) Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HUSE 2000 or permission of instructor
A major emphasis in the course involves developing anti-oppressive social work strategies for working with diverse, marginalized, and disenfranchised individuals, families, and communities that lead to social justice and transformation. This course will address how to work with diverse and marginalized populations (e.g., in terms of race, ethnicity, culture, religion, age, gender, sex, sexual orientation, social and economic status, political ideology, disability) from an anti-oppressive framework. An anti-oppressive framework examines systems of oppression resulting in individual and group discrimination as well as structural and systemic inequality. Students will contend with how to address structural power dynamics for diverse and marginalized individuals, families, and communities.