This course will be a rotation elective course focused on special and contemporary topics in community change. It will be faculty-driven and focus on specific and important issues in community change, including specific issues impacting community change, contemporary organizing efforts, specific skills in community change, and/or specific issues, policy, population, or contexts for community change.
Topic Description: This course explores whether and how abolitionist principles and politics can be incorporated into social work, by using a seminar-style format to read and discuss the book, "Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care." Students are invited to consider whether it is possible for social work to bolster the work of abolition, the tensions and paradoxes with abolition given the social work profession's legacies and trajectories, and examples of social work praxis rooted in abolitionist principles.
Objectives: This course has two primary objectives: (1) identifying abolition as a theory of change and (2) defining and applying abolitionist principles to social work practice
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| Course Section | Meeting Time | Action |
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| 002 | 09:00 am-05:00 pm | View Course |
| 001 | 09:00 am-05:00 pm | View Course |