This course challenges students to engage in a journey of self-awareness of their own identity, including biases they may hold about diversity and difference and how these biases may limit their ability to interact effectively with people of diverse backgrounds. The course will prepare student from various fields of study to develop the knowledge, values, and skills necessary to practice with diverse and different populations. The course will also require students to broaden and deepen their knowledge base and awareness of identities outside of their own. An additional focus of the course involves exploring the implications and consequences of prejudice, discrimination, oppression, economic deprivation, marginalization, alienation, power, acclaim, and privilege as they apply to both majority and minority groups in terms of social identity construction. The concept of intersectionality is also explored. The course will also present strategies for interrupting and challenging systems of oppression as a way to advance human rights, social and economic justice, and environmental justice. Required of social work majors. Prerequisite: ENG 112 or WRI 118.
SW-300: Diversity & Difference
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