Advanced Topics in Macro Social Work

This course is designed to give students a foundation in the awareness, knowledge, understanding, and skills for facilitating multicultural group dialogues and in resolving conflict or resistance that may emerge due to cultural misunderstandings or oppressive dynamics. The topics of this course include social identity group development; difference and dominance and the nature of social oppression; our personal and interpersonal connections to power, privilege, and oppression; understanding and resolving conflict or resistance; methods of dialoguing and coalition building across differences; and basic group facilitation skills and their applications in multicultural settings, including populations that are culturally diverse in terms of race, ethnicity, class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, ability status, and national origin.