Showing events starting from February 28, 2019

March 9, 2020 ET

March 9, 2020 - 12:00 PM to 12:30 PM ET

March 10, 2020 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET

Interested in learning more about the Community Action and Social Change minor? Come to this info session to learn more about the CASC community, what CASC is and what it can offer you in your undergraduate program, the types of courses you'll take, and the available opportunities for CASC students after graduation! 

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March 11, 2020 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM ET

The job search can seem like a daunting task. Where do I start? What can I do to be effective? How do I find employers who are hiring?

The 2-Hour Job Search Method offers a handy road map to help you plan and strategize your job search.

Michelle Woods, SSW Career Services Director, will discuss how to utilize methods from “The 2-Hour Job Search: Using Technology to Get the Right Job Faster” book by Steve Dalton for your job search.

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March 11, 2020 - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET

Please join the University of Michigan MLK Health Sciences Committee and the Institute for Social Research as we host author and ethicist Harriet A. Washington on March 11 for a presentation and discussion on her book "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and its Assault on the American Mind." 

Harriet A. Washington has been the Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute, a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University. She is the author of Deadly Monopolies, Infectious Madness, and Medical Apartheid, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Oakland Award, and the American Library Association Black Caucus Nonfiction Award.  

Does the dose make the poison? Are US patterns of environmental toxicity driven by socioeconomics or race? Are hereditarian scientists correct in ascribing intelligence to racial genetics? How have our habitual modes of thought blinded us to the true nature of environmental toxicity, and what challenges face public health practitioners as they assess the roles of industry, science and government?

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March 11, 2020 - 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM ET

Join the CASC Minor Senior Celebration Brinner (Breakfast For Dinner)!

Graduating seniors will participate in community building and networking activties, get information about graduation and graduation tickets, and celebrate your journey as a CASC Minor student. Participating students will also have an opportunity to record a statement about their experience in the minor, which will be featured at the CASC Minor graduation ceremony, May 1st.

Join us for an opportunity to connect with others and celebrate!

Dinner will begin at 5:00PM

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March 11, 2020 - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM ET

An admissions representive will be attending the LSA Opportunity Hub Grad School Fair to share information about U-M's MSW and PhD programs.

March 12, 2020 - 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET

This mini-course is designed to familiarize students with the current theories of couple therapy. Selected empirically supported models utilized in couple therapy will be examined The course also looks at some of the key issues and challenges faced by therapists who provide couple therapy. This mini-course will be skill based and focus on helping students to learn effective approaches to working with couples in therapy.

Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.