Description
This course equips students with advanced community practice skills, grounded in macro social work theory, which prepares them to engage, assess, and intervene in organizational and community practice. This class explores multidisciplinary practice models of community change with vulnerable populations, with special attention given to the role and significance of faith-based organizations. Students will emerge from this course with advanced skills to facilitate community change through strengths-based and empowerment paradigms, with a special focus on marginalized populations. The course emphasizes the importance of utilizing anti-oppressive social work practice by understanding social diversity in community assessment, engagement, and intervention. This practical experience includes observation, practice, and service to provide students with opportunities to apply Social Work principles in a global context. Cultural awareness and sensitivity as well as an understanding of Social Work