SW 341 - Social Welfare History and Policy I (W)

3 Credit(s)

This course provides students with an understanding of the role history and values play in societal responses to social issues and the impact upon social work practice and the development of social work policy. It provides students with an understanding of the differences in the experiences of women, racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities, the poor, and other disenfranchised groups in American society. Students explore the contextual arrangements associated with the development of the social welfare system, as well as gain a philosophical, theoretical, and historical frame of reference for social welfare as an institutional form in society. This is a writing enriched course.