Taught By:
Julie Drolet
Professor of Social Work
University of Calgary
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Course Description2:
#1 — Green Social Work and Sustainability: This course will invite you to learn about the role of social work in addressing the environmental crisis across individual, community, organizational, and professional contexts, and assess and apply approaches and innovations to integrate environmental justice and sustainability in social work practice. You will explore social work practice in placed-based contexts, interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaboration, injustices of Canada’s settler colonial history, human rights and social action, ecological social work and environmental sustainability, and social and environmental policy. Learners will engage in interactive class discussions, presentations and critical reading, guest presentations, case studies, and online discussions.
#2 — Social Work Practice in an Interconnected World: By the end of this course, you will apply knowledge and skills to address challenges and issues in diverse practice settings locally and globally. You will critically evaluate global impacts of historical and contemporary social, political, and cultural realities. You will apply concepts such as colonialism, globalization, war, genocide, and other forms of structural and systemic oppression to addressing the complexities and challenges of social work practice. Global interdependence, domestic practice and policy influenced by global forces, international human rights declarations, and social protection initiatives will be considered drawing from domestic and international case studies and examples.
