SWK 601: Policy and Practice

This course focuses on social work macro practice skills including the history of social welfare as well as social welfare policy as it impacts communities and service delivery organizations. It teaches policy and practice skills that enable students to use evidence based practices to frame interventions for social issues that affect the lives of marginalized groups of people and populations-at-risk. Using professional values and ethics and the employment of critical thinking skills as a base, students will demonstrate their ability to evaluate the effectiveness of culturally competent policy practice interventions. Pre-requisite is Social Welfare policy.