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Engaging Social Justice, Diversity, and Oppression in Social Work

SW505, Section 016

This required essentials course is designed to increase students’ awareness, knowledge, and critical skills related to diversity, human rights, social and economic justice. The course focuses heavily on engaging diversity and differences in social work practice and advancing human rights and social and economic justice, through understanding power and oppression across micro, meso, and macro levels. We will explore the knowledge base that underlies skills needed to work towards justice. These include types and sources of power, multiple social locations, social constructions, social processes, social identities, conflicts, and how all these interact. A major emphasis is on self reflexivity and developing skills in critical contextual thinking and analyses, as well as learning to use knowledge and theory to recognize critique, and engage underlying assumptions, and inform working for change. Multiple kinds of understanding are especially important—across groups, between organizations and system levels, and within and between people, related to intersecting social locations.

Semester: Fall 2022
Instructor: Nitesh Singh
U-M Class #: 31002
Time: Wed 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: 1804 SSWB
Program Type: Residential
Format: In-Person
Credits: 3 Credit Hours

Other SW505 Offerings

* The course listings below are provided for reference only. These offerings may be subject to change or cancellation.


Term Section Days Time  
Fall 2023 002 Mon 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM View Course
Fall 2023 003 Mon 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM View Course
Fall 2023 004 Mon 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM View Course
Fall 2023 005 Mon 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM View Course
Fall 2023 006 Mon 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM View Course
Fall 2023 007 Mon 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM View Course
Fall 2023 008 Mon 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM View Course
Fall 2023 009 Mon 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM View Course
Fall 2023 010 Tue 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM View Course
Fall 2023 011 Tue 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM View Course
Fall 2023 012 Tue 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM View Course
Fall 2023 013 Tue 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM View Course
Fall 2023 015 Wed 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM View Course
Fall 2023 017 Mon 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM View Course
Fall 2023 018 Mon 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM View Course
Fall 2023 019 Tue 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM View Course
Fall 2023 801 Tue 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM View Course
Fall 2023 802 Mon 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM View Course

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