MSW Student Guide
Section 2.09.00: Intensive Focus on Privilege, Oppression, Diversity, and Social Justice
All courses within the curriculum have been built with an intensive focus on privilege, oppression, diversity and social justice (PODS). Each course integrates PODS content and skills with a special emphasis on the identification of theories, practice and/or policies that promote social justice and illuminate injustices and that are consistent with scientific and professional knowledge. Through the use of a variety of instructional methods, each course will support students developing a vision of social justice, learning to recognize and reduce mechanisms that support oppression and injustice, working toward social justice processes, applying intersectionality and intercultural frameworks and strengthening critical consciousness, self-knowledge and self-awareness to facilitate PODS learning.