SCWK 200 - Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare

3 Credit(s)

This course provides the history and philosophy of social welfare and social work, explores current social welfare issues and beginning knowledge, skills, values of the profession while students discover their thought and feeling responses to this material. Students begin to identify as a social worker and learn social work ethical principles that guide professional practice. They identify the importance of diversity and difference in practice, learn beginning skills to advance human rights and social and economic justice, engage in research-informed practice and practice-informed research, discover how to engage policy to advance well-being and deliver effective services, and begin to learn the skills to engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate clients at all levels.

General Education Course - Liberal Arts Core - Social Science
Course Frequency: F

Grading Method: Student option.

Learning Outcomes:

Demonstrate beginning ethical decision making based on the NASW Code of Ethics, relevant laws and regulations, models for ethical decision-making, and additional codes of ethics as appropriate to context.
Demonstrate awareness and understanding of practices that advance human rights to promote social, racial, economic, and environmental justice.
Demonstrate cultural humility by applying critical reflection, self-awareness, and self-regulation to manage the influence of bias, power, privilege, and values in working with clients and constituencies, acknowledging them as experts of their own lived experiences.
Demonstrate critical thinking to analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that advance human rights and social, racial, economic, and environmental justice.