These courses may have been taken by previous Social Work students or may have been identified as of possible interest to Social Work students. Some courses may be restricted and/or not open to Social Work students. There are many other courses not listed offered elsewhere in the university that may be of interest. Interest in courses numbered below 500 should be checked for graduate level status since many are only offered for undergraduate credit. You can check this by contacting the department offering the course or contacting the SSW Registrar.
The information may not be up to date or complete. Please seek additional information from the department where the course is offered and from the instructors of the course. We strongly recommend you discuss your plans to take outside courses with your advisor to make sure they are a good fit for your educational program.
| School: | Public Policy |
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| Credits: | 3 |
| Prerequisites: | Open to SW students a week or so after Ford students enroll. Interested students should email the instructor and cc Sarah Beyer (sabeyer@umich.edu), the Registrar at the Ford School, to ask for permission to enroll in these courses. |
| Course Description: | How are the inherent and intersecting relations of power including inherent structures of dominance related to the experience of violence, oppression and resistance textured into the context of politics and policy making? This course investigates how multifaceted historical relationships of traumatic experience including Colonization, Slavery and Apartheid can be related to the ways in which we think about policy. This course takes a multidisciplinary approach to how the production of culture, ecology, psychology, law, economics and politics frames the sociology and historiography of the policymaking context. This course provides the opportunity for student's to improve their analytical abilities. Whilst the material content used in this course will have a global focus, local issues will also be considered. |
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
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| 001 | Henry, Yazier | - | 1210 WEILL | 27106 |
University of Michigan
School of Social Work
1080 South University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106