CALENDAR DESCRIPTION
Using critical, anti-oppressive, decolonizing, and Indigenous frameworks, this course analyzes structural social work practice in the context of diversity, recognizing social justice as being inextricably linked to social work.
This diversity course is mandatory for all BSW students. A central assumption of this course is that social justice is fundamental to sound social work practice, and there can be no social justice without consideration of diversity. This course uses an intersectional analysis to examine racism, colonization, settler colonialism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, cis-heteronormativity, ableism, ageism, and other sites or forms of oppression to interrogate the ways these practices operate at personal, community, systemic, cultural, structural, and political levels impeding social justice goals and the creation of a just society.
- Enseignant: Shane Clark