CASD is a student organized workshop series generously funded for a third consecutive year through the Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop Program and the Dean's Office of the School of Social Work.
CASD is a student-run initiative, with the goal of stimulating conversations about timely topics that cross disciplinary boundaries. The CASD workshop series aims to build intellectual bridges through discussion among scholars in social work and the social sciences.
As social work doctoral students in an interdisciplinary program we carry out research that cuts across traditional academic boundaries. To do this successfully requires one to develop skills that take into account differences between the social science disciplines and social work in problem definition, research methodologies, and applied versus basic approaches.
This workshop seeks to combine opportunities for student discussion and reading groups with an interdisciplinary workshop series involving faculty and students from social work and the five social science disciplines affiliated with the joint doctoral program.
To contact the CASD Workshop Coordinators, please send an email to: CASD@umich.edu.