SOWK 426 - Influencing Communities,Organizations,and Social Policy

Institution:

Mercy University

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Description:

This course provides students with the knowledge, values, and skills required to identify social problems and to assess and influence the communities, organizations, and social policies that affect their clients’ lives. The focus will be on locating dysfunctional structures, processes, and policies that create unjust and oppressive conditions and on developing strategies to influence change. Professional dilemmas or obstacles encountered in that pursuit will be examined. Prerequisites: SOWK 342 and SOWK 423.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.mercy.edu

Phone Number:

(800) 637-2969

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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