2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 04, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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SOWK 430 - Methods: Practice III Communities and Organizations


4 credits
This course introduces theories and concepts for socially and culturally competent social work practice in communities and organizations. Students examine the roles of communities and organizations within and beyond the context of traditional social work practice with individuals, families, small groups, organizations and large systems. Students will integrate social work’s historical and contemporary emphasis on empowerment, a strengths perspective, human and cultural diversity, populations at risk, and the values and ethics of social work practice. Political action, advocacy, and related collaborative approaches for building and strengthening communities, neighborhoods, and organizations will be stressed.

Prerequisite(s): SOWK 392 .
Corequisite(s): None.



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