SSW 631 - Community Change

Institution:

University of New England

Subject:

Social Work

Description:

This course builds upon the content from foundation year and OCP Concentration courses to provide students with knowledge and skills to engage in advanced organization and community practice. The course content will focus on how Social Workers can affect change in community settings by employing three approaches to change. Social Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Social Movements will provide students with advanced knowledge of long-practiced and newly-developed approaches employed by individuals, groups and not-for-profit health and human service organizations to affect change in communities. Using these three approaches, the course will address how to foster innovative thinking and practice, create new venture resources, expand unused and develop new capacities in human and organizational resources and mobilize these resources in order to affect change that promotes social justice. These approaches will be viewed within the context of social, economic and political environments that support and confront unjust, unequal and inadequate resource distribution in communities. Must be enrolled in: Master of Social Work.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.une.edu/

Phone Number:

(207) 283-0171

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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